Sentences with phrase «past points of»

The causes of the declines in biodiversity are land clearing, land salinisation, land degradation, habitat fragmentation, overgrazing, exotic weeds, feral animals, rivers that have been pushed past their points of equilibrium and changed fire regimes.

Past points of reference have included invasive plant species and storm radar imagery.

We tend to eat for taste, which means we eat past the point of feeling full — and that's one reason we put on weight.

It's hard to ruin Batman past the point of recognition, but everyone from «Batman Forever» and «Batman & Robin» tried their damnedest.

It's time we Americans woke up to the fact that our desire to be «tough on crime» has gone way past the point of fairness and usefulness and is now just ruining lives and consuming precious resources that could be far better used elsewhere.

Plus when you drink a bottle of water before you eat, when you sit down at the table you'll already feel a little more full and won't be as tempted to eat past the point of hunger.

I calculate we are now past the point of no return.

Greenland's coastal glaciers and ice caps have passed a pivotal tipping point — a new study concludes that they've melted so much that they're now past the point of no return, and it's unlikely in current conditions that they'll be able to regrow the ice they've lost.

Amid fresh reports that Canadians have finally «got the message» and are trimming consumption and debt, it seems likely we're already past the point of no return.

Among Musk's concerns regarding AI are the idea that artificial intelligence could become dangerous if it evolves past the point of human intelligence, and that unregulated AI could potentially be used to start global conflicts by «manipulating information.»

Canada is past the point of no return.

It is important to note that Jews — generally speaking since there are many, many, accepted Jewish beliefs on the subject — do not believe that G - d would continually punish someone past the point of redemption.

I know that none of us will convince you of anything new, because you're far past the point of no return in your Christian indoctrination.

Atheists and zealots are both nut - jobs past the point of rationale.

But I am even past the point of protest, and that brings me to my second objection.

It's inevitable we end up with some past the point of ripeness that kids (or grownups) will eat and so it's great to come up with ways to still use them.

You know those meals that seduce you to have just one more bite, even though you're past the point of fullness?

Today I think I may have taken it over the edge and past the point of no return.

I did just that, marveling the whole time at how well the whole thing was coming together except... I went past the point of no return.

Stir often, and do not heat past the point of melting.

If you cook your string beans, your cabbage, your kale — possibly past the point of crunch — you might find you want to fill your plate with them.

I knew for certain it ventured past the point of return when I saw it featured en masse at Wal Mart.

Cook noodles until tender and past the point of al dente.

Because freezing inevitably degrades food's quality over time, starting out with a questionable product is just asking for trouble: By the time you thaw and unwrap that fish, ground turkey, or milk, it'll likely be past the point of no return — and you'll probably wind up tossing it anyway.

A man well past the point of intoxication decided to take a swing at two policemen.

I think it's gone past the point of money.

His body is just past the point of being able to heal after years of injuries.

I'm going to be honest and admit I'm past the point of caring, whether we finish 3rd or 5th, I don't care since there's no use for us competing in the CL with the lack of quality in our squad and the low ambition our board and manager have shown.

Has the manager gone past the point of no return with his squad?

At the beginning of this month, James said that he was past the point of having to prove himself anymore.

It would have to be a player who was clearly a shell of what he used to be, lasting long past the point of being useful.

It's past the point of even factoring in their Runners - Up and Final4 runs..

Come on we surely know that we will not be seeing Santi Cazorla playing for Arsenal's first team any more, it has just gone too far past the point of no return by now, but then again Wenger gave the little Spaniard a one year extension last season, even though he was fatally injured in October after playing just 8 League games for the club.

The pair were awarded a Tag Team Championship match on RAW for their efforts in securing victory for the red brand, and though we can already guess that New Day is going to cheat their way into retaining the belts even though they are good guys and not supposed to cheat and are way past the point of needing to move on from the belts, we can still take solace in the fact that Sheamus and Cesaro will get them eventually.

He ran it off, but it's past the point of another injury meaning a crisis at the back.

But I've wanted him to be gone for a season and a half now, and I'm also past the point of caring whether it happens in late May or if it happens now.

If your child is doing more than 10 minutes or so per grade of homework in elementary school, an hour or so in middle school and 2 - 2 1/2 hours in high school then they are working past the point of homework providing any advantage.

At least not past the point of determining they are breech.

But he was past that point of logic.

If you choose the care of a midwife equally committed to the ideal of natural, what are the chances that an iffy heartbeat, or some other indeterminate signal, will be chalked up to «variation of normal» and ignored past the point of common sense?

But are we now moving the humour past the point of children's behaviour being the «joke» and making kids the joke themselves?

women being drugged past the point of coherency and then forced into procedures that they didn't want because now their baby is in distress from all the drugs.

The legendary court case says that women will be allowed the right to an abortion as long as the fetus is not past the point of viability, where it could possibly survive outside of the mother's womb.

Some babes cry because they're tired (or past the point of falling asleep without a peep / are overtired) and it is MOST DEFINITELY acceptable to let the baby cry for five + minutes until it falls asleep.

In my case, it got to a point where my daughter was wanting to nurse back to sleep every hour and I was past the point of exhaustion.

An overtired baby is past the point of exhaustion.

We were past the point of using fitting rooms like civilized people.

My sweet little baby is now 4 months old and we are way past the point of newborn diapers.

Even though I am past my point of loss, it doesn't seem possible to bring home a baby in 3 months.

I have just past the point of pain and it took all of my will power to do it.