Sentence examples for widespread breakdown from inspiring English sources

The more immediate one is the widespread breakdown of authority.

But no state reported the kind of widespread breakdown in machinery or procedures that crippled the voting here in the past.

Any widespread breakdown of a cease-fire called by Moktada al-Sadr, the Shiite cleric who founded the Mahdi Army, could bring the country back to the sectarian violence that strained it in 2006 and 2007.

BlackBerry is to retain its status as the government's favoured mobile device for transferring restricted information, despite the network problems that led to a widespread breakdown in its service for three days last week.

Two months after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, Iraq is widely depicted as a nation in chaos, with armed gangs dominating Baghdad's streets amid a widespread breakdown of public services.

But unlike the situation after Katrina hit New Orleans, there was no widespread breakdown of civic order: even though the police were absent, the crime rate did not go up.

Mr. DiFrancesco, who is also president of the State Senate, convened a special task force a year ago for just such an investigation after the revamped inspection stations opened to widespread breakdowns and long lines.

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It also calls for hardening the power system by generating electricity in diverse locations, in networks that would ordinarily be integrated into the power grid but that could stand alone as islands in the dark in case of widespread breakdowns.

Election officials declared Mr. Kenyatta the outright winner, narrowly avoiding a runoff, but the second-place finisher, Raila Odinga, who just stepped down as prime minister, cried foul, pointing to widespread breakdowns in the election commission's computer systems.

"There is one obvious takeaway [from the election]... and that is that there were widespread breakdowns in election administration in state after state," Perez said.