| The issues were slightly more complex than that, but that was the final breaking point really. |
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| Can hope be discovered and sustained for those who have gone beyond their breaking point? |
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| I tried to get down as fast as I could, bringing my comfort level past the breaking point. |
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| Those things have to be worked out, but things are getting to the breaking point. |
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| David gives the performance a slow burn, as George's infuriation with things he cannot control reaches its ultimate 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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| Facilities that were already underfunded and overstretched are now at breaking point. |
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| After years of barking up the wrong tree, I have reached the breaking point. |
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| He knows very well the breaking point at which people lose their patience and give him a thrashing. |
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| Credibility is strained to near breaking point by incidents like this but never quite snaps. |
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| Their unwillingness to be open and honest will be the breaking point of any decommissioning process. |
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| Today, serial monogamy has stretched the extended family to the 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 brutal battle raged all day as wave after wave of enemy infantry and tanks were hurled against defences strained to breaking point. |
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| She clearly shows signs of irateness towards her husband who deliberately tries to wind people up to a 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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| If anything, they are likely to keep on increasing until a breaking point is reached. |
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| I used to consider myself a strong person but everybody has their breaking point. |
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| He said the situation had got so bad that many drivers were close to breaking point. |
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| Which means, effectively, sending more people to prison at a time when our prisons are straining to breaking point. |
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| Women frolic, men pose and the sun scorches the sand while relationships are strained to breaking point. |
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| The breaking point came when she heard of a big bomb blast in one of the busy markets in Delhi that her parents frequented. |
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| We are deluged with trivial information and pointless musings which strain the patience to breaking point. |
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| The volume of these ethnic groups plus black migrants strained social services to the breaking point. |
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| I hope she does get another dog now that Papa's little Yorkie has gone to her reward or the house will bulge to the breaking point with boredom purchases. |
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| An employee who steals from his or her employer strains the employment relationship practically to the breaking point. |
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| Everybody panicking when they get the flu will stretch the emergency system to a breaking point. |
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| One day, after getting lost and arriving 20 minutes late to my audition, I hit my breaking point. |
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| The ibogaine ceremony begins when her heroin withdrawal reaches a breaking point. |
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| On occasion Wolf approaches a Wagnerian grandiosity of utterance, stretching the Lied to its breaking point. |
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| Once again the Liberal Party has been caught red-handed in stretching the truth to the breaking point. |
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| Almost at the breaking point, he installed 10 years of sounds onto his G4 and started messing around with Reason. |
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| There is absolutely no investment in a military that has been starved to the breaking point. |
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| And while this region is far from the breaking point, it does have a particularly high potential for conflict. |
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| We were often close to breaking point but our leitmotiv of being careful and efficient held fast. |
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| I am not sure why there has to be a minimum dollar value unless there is a breaking point where it simply is not worth the paperwork. |
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| It was a rigorous stint that stressed our home relationships to near breaking point. |
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| By twisting it, an inner pin is released and opens the tube at a defined breaking point. |
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| Lawler reaches his breaking point and slaps Kaufman, after which Letterman cuts to a commercial. |
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| The breaking point was when we started to control another nation. |
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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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| Unfortunately, they were decommissioned when it was shown that, like humans, the DRNs have a bit of a breaking point. |
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| For Szabo, 32, already a mother to three young boys, scrawling the message marked a breaking point. |
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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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| With their bottom lines at breaking point, companies known for lavish holiday celebrations are downsizing. |
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| Still, her exasperation over being a role model for the gay community seemed to be headed towards 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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| Circumstances simply reached a breaking point, such that by the 1980s, a civilian security intelligence service and a framework to hold it publicly accountable were long overdue in Canada. |
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| In the face of a history of such conduct, his relations with Frederick Borden came to the breaking point over Hutton's plan to mobilize the militia for South Africa. |
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| My main argument is that the philosophical resources of liberal individualism are strained to the breaking point by the intractable problem of racial injustice. |
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| Mr Marín pointed out that any new exodus of refugees would stretch the capacities of some of the former Yugoslav republics to breaking point, as they had already made huge efforts to provide shelter. |
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| The second point I would like to address is this: if Parliament is to lose out as a result of changes to budgetary law, then I regard that as the breaking point. |
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| After an initial alert at the beginning of the year with the bailout of Bear Stearns, the spread of the banking crisis enhanced aversion to risk and volatility, which in turn took the system close to its breaking point. |
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| This paradigm shift, provided that it takes form of a real breaking point, will also turn out to be an opportunity for a greater cohesion and strengthening of democracy within our societies. |
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| First, the deep recession of the early 1990s was brought on by the decision to break inflation through unprecedented high interest rates that strained the fifty-fifty funding formula to the breaking point. |
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| Elsewhere, however, the pressures of demand for university entry have expanded so rapidly that institutional and systemic capacities have been stretched to breaking point. |
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| As a result, tensions have escalated to the breaking point between the two major planetary factions, the Forseti and Muspell. |
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| In his paintings and his works executed on paper, the artist potentiates an ambivalence inherent in these pictures, in which he takes their tempting beauty and ambiguity to the breaking point. |
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| The market has yet to reach the breaking point where consumers back off. |
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| Engine damage due to damaged sealing: as the damage acts similar to a predetermined breaking point, the sealing was torn at 45 degrees and partly squeezed out of the sealing groove when the filter was tightened. |
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| For many German minorities WWII thus represented the breaking point in the development of their language. |
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| Water weakens the soil beneath the pavement while traffic applies the loads that stress the pavement past the breaking point. |
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| John Carver looked close to breaking point. |
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| Now close to her breaking point, Sutter's wife revealed that her character is not a psychopath. |
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| After stoking the fire for a long time, the frustration of European milk farmers has now reached the breaking point, while European and national public authorities alike are struggling without reaching a solution. |
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| Tempers were already at breaking point after a Corn Dolly batter had knocked over the posts at every base, confusing fielders and thwarting a run-out attempt. |
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| In todays episode, family loyalties are stretched to breaking point when a young tearaway is forced to choose between saving his brother and freedom. |
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| Cardiff won because their front five looked a year or two older, beefier and stronger, but many of their tries included an off-load to stretch the defence to breaking point. |
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| Russell's marriage to Dora grew increasingly tenuous, and it reached a breaking point over her having two children with an American journalist, Griffin Barry. |
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| Stretching the conventions of the genre to breaking point, Defoe plays with pirates in similar fashion to Terry Pratchett's finagling of swords and sorcery. |
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| But trying to cook a pork loin reduces Sarah Harding to breaking point. |
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| Achilles asks his mother to ask Zeus to bring the Greeks to the breaking point by the Trojans, so Agamemnon will realize how much the Greeks need Achilles. |
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