Either in fear or in hope, many Greeks detect a breakdown of a political system, over a century old, in which two political groups (notionally of the centre-left and the centre-right, but both given to patronage and graft) progressively exhaust the national exchequer by outbidding each other.
"Piracy is a symptom of the breakdown of Somalia's political system, " said economist and lead author of the report Quy-Toan Do.
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The breakdown of the electronic vote system has meant less than half of preliminary results were released.
Glaxo has been funneling cash back to the U.K. daily from banks in euro-zone countries as part of its strategy to reduce exposure to risks of a possible breakdown of the European monetary system.
Now, the reason why I raise this, even though Mr. Jordan will be confirmed, is that it is so indicative of a breakdown in the system when a nominee as highly qualified as he is, with bipartisan support as he has, who's reported out of committee unanimously, still faces filibusters.
To a large extent this reflected the shocking growth in alcoholism and binge drinking, and to a lesser extent it reflected a genuine society-wide sense of malaise and hopelessness and a breakdown in the basic functionality of the public health system.
The breakdown of the gold-based Bretton Woods international monetary system during 1968-71 signaled to Mundell that severe trouble was ahead.
Another issue of concern was the breakdown which led to the umpiring Decision Review System (DRS) being scrapped for this series.
Among many other things, the Lehman bankruptcy symbolized the breakdown of an overly complex, fragmented, opaque, unwieldy and ungovernable financial system.
Now, while a number of factors led to such a severe recession, the primary cause was a breakdown in our financial system.
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