Sentence examples for threatening breakdown from inspiring English sources

Left here, it also opens the door for "beef wellington is a sandwich" and "turkey pot pie is a sandwich," which are deeply troubling propositions and represent a threatening breakdown of the very category of sandwiches and, potentially, the fracturing of all human reason.

On Iraq, the new president has faithfully followed the policy of George W. Bush, and now Iraq threatens breakdown.

But a fierce disagreement over agriculture is tangling up the talks and threatening a breakdown in Bali.

4. In Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "Quarantine Speech" (October 5, 1937), the President stated: "The peace, the freedom, and the security of 90percentt of the population of the world is being jeopardized by the remaining 10percentt who are threatening a breakdown of all international law and order.

Both as a coach and mother I have learned one valuable lesson -- that if every member of a family realizes that there are recurring problems that are threatening to breakdown the very framework of the family unit then it might be a case of holding up the mirror to ONESELF.

He added that the ongoing violence, including almost hourly eruptions of gunfire in Baghdad, would undermine the distribution of aid "and it threatens a breakdown in order altogether".

The charity said the "terrifying" rate of the spread of the disease was outstripping medical supplies and threatened a breakdown of Sierra Leone's already fragile health system.

The division of labor between town and country was "threatened with breakdown" in Europe because "town and city industries are not producing adequate goods to exchange with the food-producing farmer".

The Communist Party is concerned that a growing awareness of industrial pollution among China's city dwellers – and their willingness to vocalise their displeasure – threatens a  breakdown in social order.

If it proves to be a new, formal position rather than a negotiating tactic, it could provoke a walk-out by some developing countries and threaten a breakdown in the talks.

A secret Metropolitan police report warned police chiefs that they needed to take tougher action to stop officers discriminating against black people, and that a failure to do so would threaten a breakdown in community confidence.