breaking point

Within the last few months it became increasingly plain to me that Sir Charles's nervous system was strained to the breaking point.

The next you are experiencing one of those bad times or unhappy moments that take you close to your breaking point, bend, but don't break.

A number of elements are ready to force the issues of fiat money and virtual wealth which have brought your world to this breaking point.

I used to be a songwriter then, or thought I was, but all my songs had been turned down and I was at breaking point.

The former Valencia manager is at a breaking point over the club's refusal to give in to his 'demands'.

Film Tension Disc Brake is manually adjustable for precisely setting the degree of film tension required, up to the film breaking point.

The question now is whether some sort of breaking point might soon be reached.

My classmates, motivated by a desire to "save" me, pestered me until I all but reached the breaking point .

5. "Grabbing and greed can go on for just so long, but the breaking point is bound to come sometime. "

At times their different interests stretched the bonds between them almost to breaking point.

The extensive rice fields of Angkor might have taxed the environment to the breaking point.

In any case, no one has any idea whether the fiscal breaking point might come this year, next year or (more likely) years down the road.

People aren't fulfilled, a piece of them is missing, but things do not change until they reach a breaking point.

Digital life brings with it profound opportunities, but the systems in place to oversee it have reached the breaking point.

I wrote this when I was at the breaking point of, "You know what? "

Tom White (Colin Friels) is at breaking point as an architectural draughtsman , his middle class life overpowering him.

The relationship between the Palestinians and their host was often close to breaking point.

Over 40% of these caregivers are stressed to the breaking point -- financially, emotionally, and physically.

But soaring drug bills, an ageing population, slack cost controls and reduced tax revenues are testing the system to breaking point.

Now, I have done this many times, believe me and the breaking point is not always at the same mass.

If the going gets tough and you are at your breaking point, show your resilience. Like the bamboo tree, bend, but don't break!

" Another sign in the crowd read, " Swear to God, we've come to a breaking point from all the discrimination and injustice.

I always enjoy myself to do every things but forget that you got a breaking point like others.

'GE bent the accounting rules beyond the breaking point, ' SEC Enforcement Director Robert Khuzami said in a statement.

The residue of an ice storm glazes a beech tree, pushing its branches to a near- breaking point .

"GE bent the accounting rules beyond the breaking point, " said Robert Khuzami, director of the SEC's division of enforcement.

Real people in the U. S. are near the breaking point as money, freedom, hope, and their futures disappear.

This continued for a few weeks, until I finally hit a breaking point.

You'll be pushed to the breaking point. Eight of you will switch to an easier specialty. Five crack under pressure.

Americans are concerned that the army has been stretched to breaking point, and that their country remains a terrorist target.

Steel had been tested to the limit, and marked with figures that showed its breaking point.

But if even that would strain your budget to the breaking point, perhaps armchair traveling through reading or video marathon will do.

If the going gets tough and you are at your breaking point, show resilience. Like the bamboo tree, bend, but not break.

Achieving this package will stretch the eurozone's inter-governmental decision-making to (and quite possibly beyond) breaking point.

Bogoria is being pushed past the breaking point. The flamingos swarm over the lake like eating machines.

This, importantly, was the breaking point for Greece.

Doctors say government spending cuts and rising unemployment are stretching services to breaking point.

Her helpless mother was at a breaking point when my parents found her.

In addition, political and financial issues ultimately brought relations between the colonists and the English homeland to a breaking point.

With four surgeries in three years, the Rockets worried they were reaching a breaking point.

I came to china with no prejudice against anyone but there is only so much man can take and we finally reach a breaking point.

In Bhopal, which bills itself as the City of Lakes, patience is already at breaking point.

Paper calendars show a single month because they are limited by the size of the paper, and a month is a convenient breaking point.

What are the signs that you've reached your breaking point?

But recent events have also left market participants so exhausted that nerves are stretched to breaking point.

Either fixture would test Fifa president Sepp Blatter's "football family" homily to breaking point.

The move pushed Spears (who was already angry about being forced into rehab in February) past the breaking point.

Their own political systems are being strained to breaking point by economic adversity and the shifting balance of global power.

This process can significantly stretch your human resources to the breaking point.

It may well be that the real breaking point was hidden, or simply wasn't obvious under normal inspection.

German patience could be stretched beyond breaking point.

Finally, the testing team will work to push applications as close as possible to the breaking point to find latent bugs.

Bitumen and bituminous binders - Determination of the Fraass breaking point.

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In contrast, the demands of chronic care can push a fragile health system to the breaking point.

The breaking point came in early 2004, when he was passed over for the job of general counsel of Wal-Mart de Mexico.

Others reached breaking point when they lost their homes or jobs, or suffered relationship break-ups.

Preparationof technology, the key lies in the breaking point for stability and speed of the machine.

We can no longer measure the displacement, but we're very close to the breaking point now.

The heavy box strained the rope to a breaking point.

The relationship between Moscow and Tbilisi has been near breaking-point for months.

The integrity of the voting process will be tested to breaking point.

Doesn't he risk damaging his reputation and stretching Fiat's thin management resources to breaking point?

In the end, the internal tensions did not go to the breaking point .

Push your creativity to the breaking point. Your best ideas will be just beyond it.

RESEARCH out this week suggests two in five people in the UK reach breaking point after queuing for only two minutes.

There is so much lined up that is at breaking point, and we are pressing for progress to speed up.

The breaking point is our starting line. . . at work.

If the going gets tough and you are at your breaking point , show resilience .

But if we don't help, our security relationship with Japan will be stretched to the breaking point.

Don't strain your bow to the breaking-point.

Officials say hastily-erected tent communities like this one are at the breaking point. New camps spring up every day.

But the real breaking- point in Russia's relationship with America came after 2003.

And the breaking point is given there in the third column, and we call that the ultimate tensile strength.

You will be pushed to the breaking point.

Breaking Point. Did you start that?

But what I want to do now, I want to get to the breaking point.

Those rules are stretched to their breaking point when robots go to war.

Have you ever felt like you are about to snap? Have you ever felt like you are at your breaking point?

Readers, do you have a 'breaking point'?

Have you ever felt like you are at your breaking point?

Smart solution of the inorganic block-diagram problems using replacement reaction as the breaking point

A simulated bridge deck is tested FOR durability and strength to determine its breaking point

Argumentation on the Breaking Point to Establish the Regional Water-saving Social Economic System in Northwest China

Looking for the Method of Breaking Point for Increasing Productivity in Mass Production

Permeating green chemistry concept is a better breaking point for the new chemistry curriculum reformation

Mass Customization Will be the Breaking Point of Network Marketing

Poor stretching paychecks to breaking point

Test method for determining the breaking point of petroleum bitumens

Be tensioned almost to the breaking point

Breaking point of Chinese swimming at 2008 Olympic Games