"breakdown" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Smith said that defensive breakdowns forced him to scuttle backward like a crab within the confines of his net.
- Already, the election-night breakdown has forced networks to do their own investigations, some of them full of scorching self-criticism.
- Three breakdowns since mid-August had forced cutbacks in rush-hour service while mechanics and pipefitters struggled to put the crippled vessels back in service.
- Originally Maxim had only intended to build two, but a lengthy breakdown on the original Earl's Court ride forced him to build more in order to make the venture profitable.
- In 1922 a breakdown in health forced his retirement from academic life and he spent the next part of his life in Norfolk.
- A breakdown in Columbia's cooling system has forced NASA to delay next week's scheduled launching of the shuttle by two to three weeks, the space agency said today.
- A nervous breakdown in March 1915 forced Gardiner to resign as leader of the Western Australian Country Party.
- The breakdowns forced Merritt Carey to climb the 110-foot mast to try to repair it.
- Maybe the importance of executing the system, and the breakdowns that can occur as soon as an opponent exploits a lapse, forces the Devils to look ahead.
- However a mental breakdown in 1844 forced him to retire from running the hospital, and he retired to Iver, where he died five years later.
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