The tapes showed another kind of communication breakdown, as well.

He said his agency was still struggling with a communications breakdown.

"At this point, we suffered something of a communications breakdown."

"There is a a serious communications breakdown that must be addressed."

The communication breakdown, he said, "doesn't mean the report is wrong."

It was a very big communication breakdown; the process didn't work for us.

Jersey City police officials opened an internal investigation into what they said was a communication breakdown.

It is at this point that things often go wrong and communication breakdowns occur.

There must have been a big communication breakdown between him and upper management.

The apparent communication breakdown, while disturbing, was not surprising to some local officials.

The trouble, as so often happened, might turn out to be a simple communications failure rather than anything dramatic.

Out there, you can always have a convenient communications failure.

His first task would be to try to locate the cause of the communications failure and deal with that.

There are people who blame most of the problems in human affairs on communication failures, and they have a point.

But the communications failure last night prevented him from being able to confirm it.

Assuming this was nothing more than a communications failure, he should be on the road by six, with two hours of overtime pay.

I'd argue that this has amounted to a communications failure of the first year.

Experts say a big part of the problem with Baycol was a communication failure.

He also criticised communication failures which kept information from the public.

He turned on Sean, who seemed unaffected by the communications failure.