buckled

Assuming it has buckled under the onslaught of HN visitors, what does it show when it works normally?

Gox the new version of Friendster, the early social networking leader that buckled just before Facebook surged ahead?

His reasoning was that in case of an accident, evacuation is difficult if all the kids are buckled in.

It's worth reading if you are falling for the narrative that Intel buckled under pressure from a harassment campaign.

But only because web developers buckled and added loads of workarounds for older versions of IE.

But he stuck to his beliefs at a time when lesser men would have buckled.

His server buckled from a couple of thousand requests because his webserver was misconfigured.

Verizon buckled under the pressure, and wired the whole island for FiOS.

He just knew how impractical they were because he actually buckled down and did the work to make a useful OS instead of bloviating on theory.

This particular website appears to have buckled under the traffic.

But he eventually buckled under the weight of it.

I didn't find my current job (which kicks ass) until I buckled down and focused all my efforts on landing a tech job.

"Stat #3: As more people buckled on helmets, brain injuries also increased".

Once I actually buckled down and started learning how to use it, I was surprised by how quickly and easily a natural feeling of "this is how it should be" developed while using Vimperator.

Many were killed in a Sioux City crash landing; the pilot Captain Al Haynes, still buckled into the ruined cockpit part of the wreckage, when informed that over 100 died exclaimed "My God, I've killed 100 people!".

Specifically, a complaint that the bus should have had belts can be met with the reply, "But that's the way school buses have always been." In contrast, there is no similarly-reasonable-sounding reply to the complaint, "If only the supervising adult had done his job and ensured that the kid was buckled in!"