The prolonged minor humiliation thus inflicted may have contributed to Cruttwell's eventual mental breakdown.
What, then, caused the eventual breakdown?
The film details a sexual downward spiral as John pushes Elizabeth's boundaries toward her eventual emotional breakdown.
Until late 2001, the global routing table was growing exponentially, threatening an eventual widespread breakdown of connectivity.
Although Summer gave him up to her sister (who couldn't conceive), it didn't prevent the eventual breakdown of her sister's marriage.
It's my opinion that her silence partly contributed to her eventual breakdown.
He was, Joshua thought, a likely candidate for an eventual schizophrenic breakdown.
I think our mutual failure to address or resolve painful issues was a major factor in the eventual breakdown of our marriage.
Cover the desired area with a layer or two of cardboard and wet it to aid with its eventual breakdown.
It helped to bring the system into disrepute and played a major part in the eventual breakdown of the Plowden structure.