Sentence examples for vulnerable to breakdowns from inspiring English sources

PAGE A9 Behind Blackout, Burnout As officials focus on how to fix the nation's strained power system, operators say the grid's human side is just as overloaded and vulnerable to breakdowns.

A14 Power Grid Staff Overloaded Many of the workers responsible for keeping the country's strained power grid humming say the human side of the system is just as overloaded and vulnerable to breakdowns.

Among the basic lessons of 9/11, two stand out: the agencies tended to put too many resources in a single place; and, in a crisis, communications and chains of command were vulnerable to breakdowns.

Less happily, Wilson, while prolific and driven, was vulnerable to breakdowns and his LSD use had escalated to the point where he used cocaine and heroin to calm down.

But many of the industry workers responsible for keeping the grid humming, as well as independent experts, say the human side of the system is just as overloaded and vulnerable to breakdowns.

Nevertheless, patient-related communication remains vulnerable to breakdowns.

Even in Tokyo, there has been a humbling realization that the conveniences people took for granted depend on an industrial system teetering on geologic fault lines, and an energy supply vulnerable to breakdown.

If we assume hybridization necessitates replacement of some elements of traditional knowledge, what pieces make the traditional system vulnerable to breakdown and which pieces retain flexibility?

Our study findings suggested that communication between multidisciplinary team members, between hospital staff and community service providers, and between hospital staff and patients were vulnerable to breakdown.

Even celebrities are vulnerable to nervous breakdowns.

The latest trouble showed again how the stock market "remained vulnerable to technological breakdowns even as regulators and market operators work to keep up with trading that is increasingly electronic and driven by speed," Mr. Popper writes.