to a point

But the number of hypocrites rises steadily: up to a point, every citizen is, in fact, forced to be one.

Inadequate water element leads to a sticky waste management system in which toxins build up to a point of creating disease.

The continuing accumulation of these deposits reduces the activity of the catalyst to a point that it must be regenerated.

The existence of this gap suggests that policies promoting energy conservation could, up to a point, actually make consumers richer.

It is to a point where you can start activating some of the other chakras that you do not even know are there.

Well, I would agree with you up to a point , but I think you are not quite right.

The Egyptian pyramids are massive monuments with a square base and four triangular sides rising up to a point.

"We came to a point where we needed to make clear signals to China, " he said. "We seem to share an understanding of the way forward. "

TOKYO - Japanese women are cheerier than men, people grow glummer as they age, and money can buy happiness -- up to a point.

Request you to fly with me, to Wanggaochu away from this, to a point past paradise flow breathing!

A study by the American Sociological Association shows that money can buy happiness but only up to a point.

The DAC 100 needs to be able to count up and down and consequently a reset condition should take it to a point near its mid-range.

I understood that love to a point as a child, but I didn't understand that if God loved me why did He make me like this?

And that's why, up to a point, he's entirely able to exercise his will.

The elite like to think of themselves as belonging to a meritocracy, but that's true only up to a point.

Necessary up to a point, but quite dull, and not something that deserves a place in management literature.

Why would any force increase the molecular rotation up and up and up and up to a point that the body burns up?

In the case of the onbar utility, you can rollforward to a point in time or up to any specified log.

Up to a point, foreign policy will remain in the president's hands, as it always has under France's fifth republic.

He came to a point where there was no more road to follow, and before him he could see nothing but a thick, steep forest.

The biggest worry about this whole thing is getting to a point and not being able to finish.

That's why relativity is better than what Newton came up with. Newton was right up to a point, but relativity covers his ground, and more.

With any audition, you come to a point where you're like, you know, wait, you won't let the whole world. . .

Peter: I agree with you up to a point, but please think twice before you leap.

Jobs liked strong personalities, up to a point, but he had never truly empowered a deputy or shared the stage.

Turn then to whether what was done was right. The answer is: yes, though only up to a point.

as far as the Water Gate, in an easterly direction and up to a point opposite the projecting tower.

Defines the size of the ring buffer : the bigger the better , up to a point .

a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top.

Up to a point, it is an aggregation of market views on the direction of prices.

Grant moved forty thousand men to a point ten kilometers from Vicksburg. He told the men to put down their guns and take up digging tools.

Usually, you can look for where the pieces trail off to a point, and try to bring that around to the front.

When shopping, he looks for truly waterproof boots, rather than 'water-resistant' ones, which can repel water only up to a point.

"I'd like to get to a point where every analyst and operations officer is trained in a foreign language, " he said.

Time, then, to raise a glass of mulled wine to the EU's four freedoms of movement: people, goods, services and capital? Up to a point.

We have to move to a point where the market does not expect institutions to be bailed out.

The goal is to ramp up to a point where the tangible savings is funding the Six Sigma program.

In my opinion, up to a point, on no account can we ignore the value of knowledge, the importance of . . . . . . cannot be overemphasized.

As they report in the latest edition of Behavioral Ecology, they have found that it is true, but only up to a point.

I agree with you up to a point, but. . .

In the redo phase, data is always rolled forward to a point that is redo consistent with the state of the database at the recovery point.

So, parents, lighten up . The stakes have been vastly exaggerated. Up to a point, we can rationalize our pushiness .

Several database operations can be executed in parallel, but additional database connections speed up the application only to a point.

Up to a point, less consumption meant China could devote more resources to investment, and thereby grow faster.

Tracing back one's ancestry to a point of recovering genetics and holographic patterns that left the Great Central Sun is a difficult feat.

The male heats up to a point at which blood is transformed into semen (seed), we would view this as orgasmic ejaculation.

Having been identified as the forest's owners, up to a point, these locals cannot profit from it until it is gone.

So the internal network is trusted, but only up to a point, and even on the internal network authentication and authorization are essential.

Our paths have come to a point, where although it is sad, we have to part, because now, living together is not a sign of love.

Increase the compression ratio - Higher compression ratios produce more power, up to a point.

Up to a point, corporate profit-seeking and political profit-denunciation can rub along together.

One of them involves computing a line integral from the origin to a point in the plane by going first along the x axis, then vertically.

The effort seems to have worked -- to a point.

Poison is the result of vastly different thought-form that cools the rotation of field to a point that it will fray or shatter.

So, it takes a little bit of patience to build up your fitness and get to a point where running feels easier.

Up to a point, this can be offset by cutting domestic interest rates.

Came to a point when he had covered a substantial area and he was exhausted and was dying.

Up to a point, said David Danzig, who supervised the production of "Primetime Torture. "

But that's only useful up to a point, and that's not what these two geologists did.

Therefore, we typically see clients starting from a hard-wired integration, then go on to a point-to-point service integration.

Climate-ready development can help people cope with its effects, such as extreme weather, but only up to a point.

This means that, up to a point, increased doses are needed to produce the same effect.

It may surprise Americans that, up to a point, his analysis is correct.

If I release that bob from a certain height, then that bob can never come back to a point where the height is any larger.

Make a note of the time so that you will be able to recover to a point before you executed the delete commands.

The self of solipsism shrinks to a point without extension, and there remains the reality coordinated with it.

Life comes to a point not when the individual project is complete but when the self dissolves into a larger purpose and cause.

to a point that they do not even inform their joint venture partner of the exact location.

If the Point value type is passed by reference, a pointer to a Point is passed on the stack.

boots, rather than 'water-resistant' ones, which can repel water only up to a point.

As countries grow richer, children's pencil cases grow fatter, though only up to a point.

Wise , adding that this is the first survey he's seen that correlates school choice to a point later in a career.

That might be true up to a point.

Unless you come to a point where your self dissolves into the universal, you cannot be truly unselfish. You can pretend.

For small applications, like applets, it might come to a point when it takes longer to start JVM than to run an application.

I've always been an advocate of expanding the market, keeping the prices to a point where more people can try it.

Lucid and, up to a point, compelling, but if you reached a conclusion it escaped me.

We had progressed to a point when retreat would have been more dangerous than continuing , frequently the case in technical climbing .

Germine says the recognition success rate got better with age, up to a point.

A toy having one end tapered to a point, allowing it to be spun, as by suddenly pulling a string wound around it.

A high concentration engages you in what you do to a point where, you no longer feel separated from your immediate activity.

Non-creator dances cause humans to pollute and over harvest the Earth Mother to a point that she struggles to regenerate.

The only problem: somehow beating back the fossil fuel industry to a point of nonexistence.

When workload demands return to a point below the threshold level, the system will de-allocate these resources and put them to other use.

It came to a point when even I considered not having relations with other people anymore, to not be close to someone else.

Each of you will progress to a point that is right for your present stage of evolution, because no one else is doing the choosing but you.

I enjoy my profession up to a point, but it certainly doesn't rule my life.

Do such comparisons make sense? The answer is Yes, but only up to a point.

First, I announced on my blog that I was developing my psychic abilities to a point where I could actually begin doing readings for people.

Let us bring you back to reality, to a point where you appreciate your true capacities and use them to do great things.

The further up the coil from ground, the louder the stations are (to a point) but the selectivity gets worse.

"You can get it up to a point online, but it's easier when you are face-to-face. "

'We decided it was getting to a point where there was not much growth because of the fragmented market and monopoly' issues, said Mr.

Instead, I am waiting for sophisticated thought completely, as if I want an epoch-making revolution, like all the attention to a point.

They met to discuss knotty problems and talk them out to a point of mutual understanding.

They now wish to develop this compound to a point at which it could be used in clinical trials.

Movement along the faults created friction that heated the limestone to a point at which the petrochemicals vaporized .

You will also get to a point where you can be meditating and willfully send out your astral body on, what you may term, a scouting mission.

Of or relating to a point of entrance to an organ, especially the transverse fissure of the liver, through which the blood vessels enter.

That turned out to be true only to a point, Stephenson said.

Up to a point, the reasons behind this shift are obvious.

Or we tolerate it up to a point.

When you come to a point where you want to live like a plant, fully unconscious, then you have come to despair of humanity.

The southern kerbside lane of Jordan Road from its junction with Jordan Path to a point about 10 metres west of the same junction .

You can use the information provided in the history file to recover all or part of a database to a point in time.

We built that to a point where we had 20 or 25 employees and were making several million dollars a year.

"It's a nice way to meet up with your son, " she said. "Because it's getting to a point where, after 30, they have their own lives. "

Up to a point the axiomatic approach worked.

Bhagavan: Up to a point, we could use psychology, and explain what is happening.

On the west side, the Great Sea will be the boundary to a point opposite Lebo Hamath. This will be the west boundary.

So when a massive star collapses in on itself, it will keep and keep collapsing until it gets to a point of infinite density.

Even then, adaptation can help only up to a point.

One-velocity neutron stochastic theory with isotropic scatting was applied to a point model.

Finally, the horseman came to a point when he had covered a substantial area but was exhausted and dying.

The funding will be used to develop the drug to a point at which it is close to entering a clinical trial.

it is an act which obviously means you have come to a point where you are so completely isolated that you don't see any way out.

The section of Canton Road from its junction with Bowring Street to a point about 30 metres south of the same junction .

Mr. Ryan's charms have also worked on Democrats, but only to a point. Likability does not translate to agreeability.

They would keep on buying until the price rose to a point where they saw no further opportunity of future profit.

I invite your interest as well as your involvement in driving this vision to a point of practical reality.

But, up to a point, the parallel is accurate.

We're finally getting to a point where we gather intelligence, we incorporate it into our screening procedures before they attempt it.

In silence Mole rowed steadily, and soon they came to a point where the river divided, a long backwater branching off to one side.

Cash on hand had shrunk to a point where a little cash we had was kind of kept in international markets that we couldn't access it.

The answer to both questions is: up to a point.

from its junction with tong shui road to a point about 22 metres west of the same junction , will be designated a temporary.

A general progression is for the beak to deform to a point in which the bird can no longer eat and it slowly starves .

From fiscal expansion? Up to a point.

The section of Parkes from its junction with Ning Po Street to a point about 10 metres south of the same junction.

Yes, up to a point, but money can't buy anything.

When a user drags an item to a point between two other items, the insertion mark shows the item's expected new location.

Also, up to a point, they can be of great service to happiness.

Military force can help only up to a point.

Instead, positions were not monitored, so changes in value were often ignored until losses grew to a point when solvency became an issue.

In the first phase, a feasible operating condition is given and the system will iteratively track to a point on the tradeoff boundary.

Wo Fung Street from its junction with Luen Fat Street to a point about 10 metres east of the same junction.

The underlying cause of the sewage dump was vast rainfall that backed up their system to a point of failure.

fades to a point where it cannot be heard, and then increases again.

That claim may be true to a point, but is reading each and every text message the best way to counteract these behaviors?

Industry is cartelized to a point that would make John D. Rockefeller envious.

Up to a point, Mr. Chairman, up to a point.

I forgive those ancestors who over farmed, over fished or deforested to a point that the region could not regenerate.

Eventually, though, the business grows to a point where that model becomes untenable.

But many already accept cards and are committed to a point of sale system, so the economics of Square might not make sense.

The petals of the Cornus florida variety have a notch at the tip, while those of the Japanese dogwood, Cornus kousa, come to a point.

By definition, if Spain came to a point where it could no longerfinance itself, interest rates would be on the rise.

But the argument that more and more people will have to locate in Shanghai is true only up to a point.

The answer is Yes, but only up to a point.

One end of a pencil is tapered off to a point.

Are we heading to a point where we know what someone is going to do before they do it?

A checkpoint refers to a point when the database server synchronizes the pages on disk with the pages in the shared-memory buffers.

I drove past a little ways, to a point where I could stop, and rushed back.

They achieved that up to a point.

Yes, up to a point, but the world keeps changing.

When the soap has reached "trace" it means the liquid soap has come to a point where it will not separate back into oil and water.

Restore Database: The To a point in time option is in the Destination for restore section.

The G20 does understand this, but only up to a point.

Officers are unsparing in training their men, to a point which U. S. trainers would probably think insane.

It was to a point where I had to walk away.

Our government has already done their part even to a point of looking stupid and pathetic in the eyes of the world.

To a point, it is about your ability to cope with chaos, extreme good and extreme bad in a partnership.

He needed to come to a point where he could no more fall away from God.

Sachs advises parents to be patient -- to a point.

making some real money and constantly letting it grow to a point where our income exceeds our expenses.

He is also able to roll the database forward to a point in time just before the application did its damage.

It is not hard to integrate a pattern-matching library with the tree visitor to get to a point where visitors can leverage tree patterns.

I'll discuss certain things about my private life to a point, but other things are just nobody's business.

But you're right up to a point ?

As for the water, being free and erosive is piercing the skin to a point at the south.

CORBA's numerous technical flaws have accumulated to a point where it is difficult to fix or add anything without breaking something else.

For example, you can restore the database to a point before unwanted data was entered or to a point of failure.

And women are driving the growth of our smaller business--to a point.

A discharge of built up electrical charge, often forming a spark to a point of lower charge or earth.

As Earth dropped in vibration, time slowed to a point where cause and effect experienced a delay.

More broadly, things are settling to a point where the physical and the digital have a much more co-operative relationship.

Extreme right and wrong is what pits one against the other to a point of warfare.

What other studies have also shown is that money matters up to a point.

Linear steering, a firm ride and low body lean help hide its bulk, but only to a point, when basic physics take charge.

The ocean is, indeed, resilient and tolerant to a point, but we must be good custodians.

On the one hand, I can understand his frustration, and his logic makes sense. . . to a point.

I'd finally gotten to a point where we'd discovered a lot of things that were very exciting, things that were provocative.

left-eyed marine flatfish whose tail tapers to a point; of little commercial value.

The upper part of the structure tapers off to a point .

I don't think any of us get to a point where we can say, "Finally, I got everything done that I needed to do. "

Fluid to a point , then fixed to ensure lines of text, etc. , don't become ridiculously long.

an elongate tail tapering to a point; the old man's gaunt and elongated frame.

They are free from spherical aberrations, and thus focus the parallel beam to a point or point source to infinity.

with you up to a point, but surely the situation is more complex than that?

Humans often harvest to a point of no return for the associated species.

They can't put words to it, so frustration oftentimes takes over, to a point where females start doing things they normally wouldn't do.

We should meet to discuss knotty problems, and talk them out to a point of mutual understanding.

Diversity we can tolerate, up to a point. But not failure, not in any circumstances.

This breadcrumb navigation is useful to a point, but because it's styled as a pipe-delimited list, many users may not even notice it.

Some teachers have studied for years with the world's top instructors and have honed their teaching skills to a point of mastery.

I feel all of us have a price up to a point.

Donald Felton: I am trying to get to a point where I can just lay at one place and not have to do anything ever.

Use the restore task assistant to restore the database and roll forward to a point in time before the delete statements were run.

Practical reasons for wanting focus a diverging wave to a point will become evident as we proceed.

Try using System Restore to restore your system to a point in time when it worked correctly.

Of or relating to a point at which a curve has a maximum, minimum, or point of inflection.

Pick out landmarks on the heading and walk the trail of least resistance to a point.

Well, up to a point.

Ideallyyou want to get to a point of holding her hand as quickly as possible, orstanding with your arm around her waist.

You are right up to a point.

In this case, your control will shrink to a point, and it will not be readily visible.

Come to a point of acceptance of what is, including acceptance of oneself.

Yes, up to a point.

As a result, marks can be tied to specific work, and you can recover to a point that includes or excludes this work.

In the financial sector this is wise, up to a point.

Whether the race will ever grow to a point where men will be willing to leave the matter of life-expression to the individual is a question;

Database snapshots offer an efficient way to revert a database to a point of known logical consistency.

I remember wishing I could fast-forward to a point where I was established.

"We have to get to a point where we're playing with confidence, " Bryant said.

A cone is a solid body which narrows to a point from a round, flat base.

Serena Williams reacts to a point won against Justine Henin during the womens singles final January 30.

Set the Location property of the control to a Point.

All the data has been rolled forward to a point at which undo can occur.

You may be sensitive to a point of absurdity.

Nevertheless, at a certain moment in the afternoon the battle came to a point.

A covered trench or tunnel dug to a point within an enemy position.

Eventually you will grow to a point where you lose money and your business fails.

If the second task fails, the first task is rolled back to a point before the new table was created.

Point-to-point control systems cause the tool to move to a point on the part and execute an operation at that point only .

We're getting to a point where our people are decreasing in numbers.

The business press loves to create mythic heroes of industry and we love it, too. To a point.

make sharp or acute; taper; make (something) come to a point.

Curved and tapering to a point; sickle - shaped.

Point-to-point tool movements cause the tool to move to a point on the part and execute an operation at that point only.

He leaves room for manoeuvre. He is flexible to a point of opportunism.

and soon they came to a point where the river divided.

Each questioner would equate to a point value, based on their correct and incorrect answers.

I thought to add a layer of points, new shape, but not a good idea because it would only serve to a point in time.

According to research, candy before exercise can enhance performance, but only to a point.

If you intend to build a busy business on eBay, you'll likely get to a point where you need automated support.

because it is dome-shaped, the pressure of air converges from below to a point in the midline where the cords are thinnest .

We are almost to a point where there are only two languages you need to know: whatever your parents speak. . . and English.

Do you feel stifled by your daily routine to a point of feeling a real discomfort?

Hydrate yourself and never let yourself get to a point of dehydration.

We boil down to these questions to a point.

I drove to a point from which I could survey the whole city.

Have you gotten to a point in your wave where a quick conference call would be more productive than continuing your back-and-forth in Wave?

Initial despair evolved to a point where we couldn't stop laughing.

We are coming to a point where all shall reveal itself in truth.

Priests can solo to a point. Cast possess in a field of Ogres and you will be the ogre.

Then we will come to a point where something inside will arise suddenly.

I am simply saying that guys like me who have gotten to a point of no return can be happy living in 2-D.

Array corresponds to a point in the path.

The church spire tapers off to a point .

That fellow's impudence has been growing to a point that is perfectly intolerable to me.

"We just need to get to a point where we can achieve consistent, profitable growth, " he says, in his first interview as chief executive.