Sentences with phrase «almost at breaking point»

Nevertheless, the relentless pressures of recruiting confused him so much that his principal, R. F. Peters, said that Butch «appeared to be almost at the breaking point.»

Not exact matches

Parents of large families in which older children have already moved on to adult life report a «squash and a squeeze» effect where each child's birth makes the house a little less bearable until breaking point is almost reached... then older children spend the day at school, then they're off to university and adult life, and slowly the house becomes almost unbearably large.

We came out of a season of almost burnout and exhaustion in church — just feeling like we were kind of like at a breaking point with how things had always been.

Whether the offended individual sits broken - hearted, staring almost like a beggar at the Paradox, paralyzed by his suffering, or he sheathes himself in the armor of derision, pointing the arrows of his wit as if from a distance — he is still passive and near at hand.

At one point I was scraping up a half uncooked half almost burnt lumpy pancake and my spatula broke.

It's about having a back up striker to allow him to rest or have a break when his form drops which it almost always does with strikers at some point.

Hold on Break - on - through, most FA Cup wins, Longest serving team in the top league, almost 100 years, highest points under the old two point system, 66 points heated dressing rooms including the floor at Highbury when United and Liverpool etc were changing in corrugated iron sheds, sure there's more

At one point, he tried to do an overhead kick and almost broke his back.

The Real Madrid forward is breaking records and reaching terrific new heights on an almost weekly basis at the moment for his club, and he has now set this superb achievement for his national side as well, heading home to give his country a crucial three points in their quest to qualify for the tournament in France in two years» time.

Much to my surprise she went through almost 10 activities in an hour and wanted to keep going but I convinced her to take a break at which point my 4 year old son insisted it was his turn.

One thing — with ENSO neutral (or cold) we may finally see a break in the unusually long U.S. Hurricane Drought — where we haven't seen a major hurricane (CAT III or greater) make landfall in the U.S. for... wow, almost as long as I can remember at this point.

We all have to deal with a broken relationship at some point, when your time inevitably comes around, be realistic with your behavior and understand that the quest for a quick fix such as dating on the rebound will almost certainly delay the healing process.

The heads of almost every school in Essex, West Sussex, East Sussex and Cornwall have written a joint letter warning of budgets at «breaking point».

At this point, if you hand me a query letter, I can practically blink and tell you if literary agents are going to be interested in your book; I can tell you, almost as quickly, how to fix your query if it's «broken.»

All friendships go through rough patches at one time or another, and in this Fitz's relationship with the Fool is pushed almost to breaking point.

At one point, he found himself almost broke and homeless, but he managed to rebound and make it happen.

Slice the meat thin and dehydrate it until it is almost brittle, at which point it becomes easy to break into small bite - size treats.

Arriving at 8.00 AM to find chest to almost double head high waves breaking on the point and middle sections and only around 15 surfers scattered through the line ups.

A sense of fatigue therefore sets in at some point during the process of play for almost all players (an experience remarked upon by Jed Pressgrove in his review), one that either encourages them to achieve completion and make a break from the game, or requires them to think differently about their play from then on in.

His big break, Maniac Mansion — which the Oregonnative wrote, designed and directed — was released in 1987 by Lucasfilm Games, and almost single - handedly took the graphic adventure genre from niche concern amongst an endless sea of shooters and platformers to something close to a gaming phenomenon, one point and click at a time.

There are, however, a couple of rather large problems, which are almost game breaking at one point and certainly enough to make a grown man cry into his can of overpriced carbonated fruit juice.

Back in early 2016, the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation failed to pursue all possible solutions to unlock the iPhone 5c owned by San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook before demanding Apple's help accessing the device, reports Reuters.The information was shared today in a report issued by the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General.According to the report, the FBI's in - house unit that handles breaking into mobile devices did not begin looking for outside help to unlock Farook's iPhone until the night before the FBI demanded Apple's help through a court filing.The FBI was aware that one of the vendors contacted at that point in time had «almost 90 percent completed» a technical solution that would allow the FBI access to the phone.