The car broke down.

The watch broke down.

Vaccination programs have also been disrupted.

The car broke down, so they had to walk.

Our car broke down on our way there.

The EU s asylum policy has broken down.

Moreover, the political process itself is broken.

In the twin who developed the breast cancer, several hundred genes had been switched off.

After the war, which disrupted maritime commerce, the colony underwent rapid expansion.

That mechanism is broken beyond repair.

During the financial crisis, market functioning was impaired, at times very profoundly.

Even gas supplies have been disrupted although Iran is the second richest gas country in the world.

CAMBRIDGE The global economy is a runaway train that is slowing, but not quickly enough.

Reforms in the judicial sector had had a limited impact or had been delayed, contributing to impunity.

The new brigades that appeared were mostly divisions that had broken down until they happened to be at the proposed brigade strengths.

And so it's not going to break very easily, but if it does, virtually every piece in this machine can be swapped out and replaced with a hex wrench and a screwdriver.

Klan members used violence to settle old feuds and local grudges, as they worked to restore white dominance in the disrupted postwar society.

For many years, the Soviet Union gave conflicting statements that she had died either from oxygen starvation, when the batteries failed, or that she had been euthanized.

The guys got out, they put the hood up, they started working under the hood, got it going again. About a hundred yards, it broke down.

Despite his careful planning and the skill of Ramzi Yousef, the Bojinka plot was disrupted after a chemical fire drew the Philippine National Police's (PNP) attention on January 6 7, 1995.

One sign of progress is that a new cabinet committee, chaired by Singh, will review large private investment projects that have been held up by regulatory issues or other legal barriers.

The EU must learn from this experience to develop an accession strategy for the Western Balkans, whose development has been delayed by a complex post conflict transition process.

The Doha Round of trade negotiations is stalled because developed countries do not want to open their markets to cheaper products from developing countries, which in turn try to protect what nascent industries they have.

Europe s Franco German locomotive has broken down and ratification has stopped, even though member states that had yet to ratify the treaty could have completed the process of ratification.

The ambulance broke down on the road into town, and the Governor General and those with him waited for another to arrive he could not be placed in the car as he could not sit up.

In September 2013, Crews revealed in an interview that Statham survived an on set mishap when the truck he was driving plunged into the Black Sea after its brakes had failed.

Addison preferred to believe that the condition was caused by intemperance or some other external factor, and that since the whole body had been disrupted, it could not be localised to a specific organ.

Past experience shows that, even when agreements are signed and ceasefires are in place, countries and regions may yet relapse into conflict or civil violence if post conflict peacebuilding efforts lag behind.

Relief activities were greatly hindered by a steady increase in banditry along Darfur's main roads, which has limited access of humanitarian staff and goods to some affected populations.

A burial service was delayed, airline travel was disrupted as travellers missed their flights, doctors could not go to work and patients were left without care while Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa swam, ran and cycled around the country.

This insight was made possible not only due to scientific magnetometer measurements of the era, but also as a result of a significant portion of the of telegraph lines then in service being significantly disrupted for many hours throughout the storm.

Meanwhile, established modes of production were disrupted, in twenty first century business school parlance, causing productivity to fall. But this slump in productivity was actually a harbinger of better times.