Sentence examples for total breakdown of from inspiring English sources

They depict a total breakdown of morale.

The Israeli government is making contingency plans for a total breakdown of the peace effort.

A total breakdown of self-control is the perfect backdrop for this bill.

Maybe they are afraid of a total breakdown of the EU".

But in the end the United States had to agree to two tracks to avoid a total breakdown of the talks.

Prowling Rome's streets and screaming out the name of their latest hero while wearing their threatening masks, they suggest a total breakdown of civil society.

The general thesis of the column was that a near-total breakdown of responsibility at every link in our financial chain got us here.

Only when faced with the near-total breakdown of the Haitian state, rioting, and a potential coup d'état did Duvalier acknowledge that his days were numbered and flee the country.

But when American authors such as Edmund Wilson or John Steinbeck wrote about the shut-down assembly lines in Detroit or the exodus of the Okies (Oklahomans displaced by the Dust Bowl) to California, they were describing something new: the near-total breakdown of a previously affluent economy.

Members of the Afghan Parliament came to blows as a majority for the first time began to discuss impeaching President Hamid Karzai, signaling the near-total breakdown of relations between the Parliament and the president as the country teeters on the brink of a constitutional crisis.

KABUL, Afghanistan — Members of the Afghan Parliament came to blows Tuesday as a majority for the first time began to discuss impeaching President Hamid Karzai, signaling the near-total breakdown of relations between the Parliament and the president as the country teeters on the brink of a constitutional crisis.