Sentence examples for systems have broken from inspiring English sources

Payment systems have broken down.

In New York state, 205 water systems have broken the law by delivering tap water that contained illegal amounts of bacteria since 2004.

Asylum seekers to Europe may come from war-torn countries where health systems have broken down, and there is evidence that asylum-seeking children have low coverage of childhood vaccinations, as well as uptake of immunisations in host countries.

VanderMeer's new novel, published this April, takes place in a future where humanity's systems have broken down and new creatures often discarded biotech experiments from a mysterious organization called the Company inhabit the land.

Roads are blocked, telecommunication systems have broken down, and electricity is unavailable in many places.

UNICEF has warned of increased risks of disease outbreaks as water and sanitation systems have broken down.

Talks over whether America Online will be included in Microsoft's new Windows XP operating system have broken down.

In Egypt, where most people don't legally own property or work in the formal economy, parts of this system have broken down.

But even here, the system has broken down.

Its implication is that our whole system has broken down.

Overloaded with information, the exchange system had broken down.