How To Use Breaking point In A Sentence
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Should it worsen further, one would have to be very concerned of how it would affect the sufficiency of liquid milk supplies, and peak processing capacity around the country, which is already stretched to breaking point.
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The heavy box strained the rope to a breaking point.
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Each of the buddies reaches a breaking point with his boss and they collectively decide one drunken night that hiring a hitman is the only solution.
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The heavy box strained the rope to a breaking point.
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The situation reached breaking point when his son crashed the family car.
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The volume of these ethnic groups plus black migrants strained social services to the breaking point.
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Seven days of Adele would stretch both the linen cupboard and the washer-dryer to breaking point.
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A towering perennial, which takes on a stately ghostliness by late autumn, it needs a sheltered spot away from strong winds, which might buffet the stems to breaking point.
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If it is indefatigability you are after, try Sky's Super League, where commentators Eddie and Stevo never tire of extending metaphors beyond breaking point.
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Extension of the individual freedom of conscience decisions to business corporations strains the rationale of these cases to the breaking point.
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Shackleton's southern party passed the previous ‘furthest south’ record set by Scott, but by January 2 Shackleton was near to breaking point.
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The location below the center of a nuclear detonation is, strictly speaking, the hypocenter, with the Greek hypo- meaning “under”; that word was soon overtaken by epicenter the Greek prefix epi- means “on, over”, the outbreaking point on the earth’s surface above the focus of an earthquake.
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Benjamin's career as a Leibnizian idealist reached its peak and breaking point in his formulation of the guiding principles of The Origin of the German
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In the fall of 2005, LaRouche put out a sharp warning on the threat of hyperinflationary collapse, which he identified as the lawful outcome of Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan's policy of flooding the world with money. webcast of July 25, 2007, LaRouche declared that the international financial system had reached the breaking point.
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We moved ahead rapidly when the economic collapse of the Depression strained the capacities of families and communities to the breaking point.
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But at what point did it become cool to drive a fellow teen to breaking point where the only foreseeable way to escape such persistent torment is to take their own life?
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One risk is that the very pressurized gas might push an already stressed fault towards its breaking point.
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Trained to perfection -- to breaking point -- I was bound to fracture sooner or later.
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This stretches credulity well past breaking point.
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A couple today told how they were pushed to breaking point by a vindictive neighbour who waged a 15-month hate campaign against them.
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We are deluged with trivial information and pointless musings which strain the patience to breaking point.
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Dirk Kuyt was used with Maxi Rodriguez and Alberto Reira either sideof him and, with the re-called Gerrard arriving late in support when hecould, the Wolves rearguard was stretched to breaking point on severaloccasions.
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We moved ahead rapidly when the economic collapse of the Depression strained the capacities of families and communities to the breaking point.
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Language gets strained to breaking point: incompetent cockiness becomes "enormous enthusiasm," dopiness "diligence" and a complete absence of initiative or spark "fitting in well with the team.
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Trained to perfection -- to breaking point -- I was bound to fracture sooner or later.
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The report on the riot exposed a prison system stretched to breaking point.
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Dirk Kuyt was used with Maxi Rodriguez and Alberto Reira either side of him and, with the re-called Gerrard arriving late in support when he could, the Wolves rearguard was stretched to breaking point on several occasions.
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Their five-year relationship was strained beyond breaking point.
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Sandra González, a high-school English teacher, said the cuts, which will eliminate most long-term substitute teachers while raising the number of hours teachers must spend in the classroom weekly to 20 from 18, have brought her to the breaking point.
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The situation reached breaking point when his son crashed the family car.
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When laminated glass is stressed beyond its breaking point, it will crack and break, but the pieces will remain in place, still attached to the window frame.
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Facilities that were already underfunded and overstretched are now at breaking point.
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The situation reached breaking point when his son crashed the family car.
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The report on the riot exposed a prison system stretched to breaking point.
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The situation reached breaking point when his son crashed the family car.
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A spokesman for the renal unit at MRI this week confirmed they were at breaking point and may have to start refusing treatment, sending people elsewhere in order to treat the most urgent cases.
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Her nerves were stretched to breaking point.
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Constant use had fretted the sandal strap to the breaking point.
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I tread carefully in work and play because I know that when I reach that point, that breaking point, when I am sleep deprived and have pushed myself to the brink of oversocialization, what it all boils down to is: saving myself.
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He said the situation had got so bad that many drivers were close to breaking point.
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And all this, mind, a century before the Montgolfier brothers ever hoisted themselves aloft, so expect your time frames and tenses to be concertinaed as your credulity is stretched to its breaking point.
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Senior police are increasingly concerned that the amount of time officers are spending in court is pushing stretched resources to breaking point.
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The situation reached breaking point when his son crashed the family car.
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Their five-year relationship was strained beyond breaking point.
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Most historians of China, regardless of their subspeciality, would agree that a breaking point of great significance occurred at the end of the Tang and the beginning of the next imperial dynasty, the Song; others place it more generally over the course of the 10th century.
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The heavy box strained the rope to a breaking point.
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The airline's resources had been stretched to breaking point as it used its aircraft to evacuate passengers from Jamaica, Cuba and the Dominican Republic.
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Oddment ! Tweak! I have heard some rather ridiculous interpretations of these words, but these stretch credibility to the breaking point.
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Like fan fiction, it will be ravenously referential and intertextual in ways that will strain copyright law to the breaking point.
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But they do let them dock after a search ahem. have you seen the list of blockaded items? the blockade is about collective punishment and to reduce the civilian population of gaza to a state of breaking point.
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Oddment ! Tweak! I have heard some rather ridiculous interpretations of these words, but these stretch credibility to the breaking point.
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Snap the asparagus at its natural breaking point, by holding the spear in both hands and snapping like a twig.
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The breaking points were defined without knowledge of the diagnosis.
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MEXICO CITY -- As drug violence spirals out of control in Mexico, a commission led by three former Latin American heads of state blasted the U. S.-led drug war as a failure that is pushing Latin American societies to the breaking point.
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The Charles on the page has a lot more in common with the author's earlier protagonists (especially Continental Op), who clearly don't have a clue what's happening around them, but succeed by taking a crazy situation and exacerbating it to its breaking point another really telling omission (on a par with the excision of the Flitcraft narrative from Maltese Falcon) is the interpolated tale of cannibalism, which casts an extraordinary pall upon even the jokiest moments of Hammett's Thin Man...
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The heavy box strained the rope to a breaking point.
