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Example sentences for "breakdowns"

Lexicographically close words:
break; breakage; breakages; breakaway; breakdown; breake; breaker; breakers; breakes; breakest
  1. The accurate measuring devices which accomplish measurement under Scientific Management prevent breakdowns and accidents to life and limb.

  2. This position calls for a man with an experience that will enable him to detect liability of breakdowns before they actually occur.

  3. Practical information on: The Construction and Operation of Locomotives, Breakdowns and their Remedies, Air Brakes and Valve Gears.

  4. Under this method "the number of breakdowns declined from 12 each working-day to an average of 2 a day, not one of them serious .

  5. The causes of breakdowns and nervous disaster, and consequent emotional disturbances and their bitter fruit, are often to be sought in the remote past.

  6. The period of examinations is, too, of all others, the time of danger, and I know of many sad breakdowns due to the exaction and emotional anxieties of these days of competition and excitement.

  7. I apologize that despite considerable research I was unable to discover more detailed breakdowns from more composting activities.

  8. Such pseudoscience is not only inaccurate but it leads readers into similar misunderstandings about other such lists, like nitrogen contents, or composition breakdowns of organic manures, or other organic soil amendments.

  9. In the first instance, however, the construction in this case had to be of a provisional nature, and this, and the use of cable, caused continual breakdowns and repairs.

  10. But the breakdowns really were so frequent that the great volume of reports and information in connection with the working of Headquarters could not have been carried on this line for a prolonged period.

  11. Only slow neutrons were involved and the individual nuclear breakdowns were far more energetic than anything else that had yet been discovered.

  12. White folkses danced da twistification up at de big house, but us had reg'lar old breakdowns in a house what Marstar let us have to dance in.

  13. Footnote 18: Generally defeats its own object; the heavy load destroys the roads, causes breakdowns and delays, etc.

  14. These idle wheels were ready, in case of breakdowns on either side, to catch the falling carriage, and instantly to continue its previous velocity, till the coachman could pull up the horses.

  15. To prevent breakdowns the coach was fitted with idle wheels on each side of the luggage box, with their periphery below the floor, and each as near as was requisite to its respective active wheel.

  16. Breakdowns and the wearisomeness of motoring "shop" form the theme of verses in 1903.

  17. It is not expected that all the breakdowns which may happen to a locomotive will occur on the engine that he is with; therefore it is good practice to observe how other men care for these breakdowns.

  18. The engineer should do any necessary work on the engine after starting out on the trip to avoid breakdowns and insure getting over the road promptly.

  19. Locomotive Engine Breakdowns and How to Repair Them *Lea.

  20. As a matter of fact, many intellectual people have had what are called nervous breakdowns of this kind.

  21. Commercial sugar also is the cause of many breakdowns among the people of this country.

  22. I packed them with new grease in preparation for the sandy journey to come, and removed and re-aligned the chain sprockets; I wanted no breakdowns or searches for missing parts in the baking, sandy desert.

  23. Nothing in this book is set down in malice, and I can only hope that my case was exceptional so far as the frequent breakdowns were concerned.

  24. Furthermore, the fact that the motor and dynamo armature windings are on the same core makes it difficult to guard against breakdowns of the insulation between the two windings, especially when the driving current is of high voltage.

  25. It not only dispenses with the necessity of running the generators continuously, but it also affords a safeguard against breakdowns which is one of its important uses.

  26. The lack of preventive maintenance and disregard of technical requirements in the operation of equipment result in frequent breakdowns requiring major repairs.

  27. The shortage of adequately trained personnel adversely affects the utilization of available capacity; it entails frequent breakdowns of machinery and inhibits multishift operation of plants.

  28. The lack of required skills has contributed to frequent machinery breakdowns and to the output of low-quality products.

  29. I suggest we try to determine the exact relationship between the breakdowns and the appearance of the comet.

  30. A rash of car breakdowns all over the country.

  31. Automobile breakdowns are not the most serious accidents that are taking place.

  32. Both Russia and Britain had conducted extensive tests just before the breakdowns began occurring.

  33. Go into any company you like, and it is safe to say that before many minutes have passed matters of health will be under discussion, and oftentimes they are nerves or breakdowns in some form or other.

  34. There is no doubt that breakdowns constitute one of the most momentous problems of the day.

  35. It is around these that the whole question of breakdowns hinges.

  36. It is this disease in some phase or other which is the starting-point of so many breakdowns in health.

  37. And much of this loss, and most of the breakdowns which occur as a result of it, may be avoided by a careful, practical study of the whole question.

  38. Such cases are, however, the exception, and they are not the breakdowns with which we are now concerned.

  39. Nervous Breakdowns and How to Avoid Them.

  40. For similar reasons the parson is always vastly more liable to breakdowns than the lawyer or doctor.

  41. And they not only act as a direct preventive of breakdowns themselves, but they are an invaluable aid to other forms of treatment.

  42. The lamentable part about breakdowns is the fact that they attack those who can least be spared.

  43. If people would take more care in preparing themselves for their daily duties, and in improving their conditions of work, both for themselves and their employees, we should hear very much less of breakdowns than we do at present.

  44. The remainder of this book will be directed to the consideration of these laws, on which the whole question of breakdowns and their prevention depends.

  45. His own planet was comparatively poor--yet nervous breakdowns were few and far between.

  46. And you have proved two breakdowns in the inescapable human element--the information feeding--just like that!

  47. The excessive number of engine breakdowns is obviously related to the extremely light weight of the engines employed: better design may actually increase these weights over those customary at present.

  48. Besides speed and radius of action, the conclusive factors include that of freedom from such breakdowns as cannot be made good on the road.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "breakdowns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.