Smith said that defensive breakdowns forced him to scuttle backward like a crab within the confines of his net.

Already, the election-night breakdown has forced networks to do their own investigations, some of them full of scorching self-criticism.

Three breakdowns since mid-August had forced cutbacks in rush-hour service while mechanics and pipefitters struggled to put the crippled vessels back in service.

Originally Maxim had only intended to build two, but a lengthy breakdown on the original Earl's Court ride forced him to build more in order to make the venture profitable.

In 1922 a breakdown in health forced his retirement from academic life and he spent the next part of his life in Norfolk.

A breakdown in Columbia's cooling system has forced NASA to delay next week's scheduled launching of the shuttle by two to three weeks, the space agency said today.

A nervous breakdown in March 1915 forced Gardiner to resign as leader of the Western Australian Country Party.

The breakdowns forced Merritt Carey to climb the 110-foot mast to try to repair it.

Maybe the importance of executing the system, and the breakdowns that can occur as soon as an opponent exploits a lapse, forces the Devils to look ahead.

However a mental breakdown in 1844 forced him to retire from running the hospital, and he retired to Iver, where he died five years later.