He said he was confident that China's capital would not suffer widespread breakdowns in transportation, telecommunications or electricity.

Widespread guerrilla warfare in the state meant a widespread breakdown in the society, causing residents to suffer.

A few alerted superiors; a few of them actually wondered about the widespread breakdown.

Until late 2001, the global routing table was growing exponentially, threatening an eventual widespread breakdown of connectivity.

Again, it would have to be a sudden and widespread economic breakdown that leads to layoffs, mortgage foreclosures and installment defaults.

First, it will act as a safeguard against today's widespread and unnecessary breakdown of faith.

But doctors are concerned over a widespread breakdown in sanitation and hygiene that may leave the area vulnerable to communicable disease.

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

There is a widespread breakdown in the functioning of the human immune system.

"We have to be prepared to deal with that kind of thing, but not with a widespread breakdown."