Greifswald's considerable safety defects threatened a "catastrophic breakdown of the reactor pressure vessel," he said.

Then, in August, Henry VI suffered a catastrophic mental breakdown.

That is a reasonable response to the catastrophic breakdown of services over the past decade.

Like most of the equipment on Thalassa, it had been designed by long-dead geniuses so that catastrophic breakdowns were virtually impossible.

A team may also concede because of a catastrophic breakdown.

Dependencies may lead to cascading failures between the networks and a relatively small failure can lead to a catastrophic breakdown of the system.

An especially positive attribute of the gear motor is that catastrophic breakdown is a lot less common than in most other types of hydraulic motors.

"Clearly, there was a catastrophic breakdown here that's interesting but ultimately unknowable."

The catastrophic breakdown of the nation's paging system and the panic it has inspired draws both news and feature coverage all around.

The people of Russia and the so - called independent states are in a mood of imminent rebellion, thanks to the catastrophic breakdown in the economy.