"Breaking point" refers to a situation where someone experiences extreme stress, pressure, or emotional strain, and can no longer cope or tolerate the situation. It signifies the moment when one's resilience or endurance is overwhelmed, leading to a complete breakdown or loss of control.
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Few would dispute that the NHS is
at breaking point in terms of its capacity to provide the levels of care expected.
Some may find their patience tested beyond
breaking point in a long (two and a half hours) movie whose first reel or so is easily its weakest.
She started Strong Inside Out to help others overcome obstacles and find their happiness in life after a life - changing
breaking point of her own.
An unexpected expense or sudden cost increase is often responsible for the shortfall, and it may well be the final
breaking point for a business that's already struggling.
Services for all survivors of sexual violence, whether gender - specific or gender - inclusive, had already been stretched close to
breaking point by years of austerity policies.
Now I have a new snack /
break point when coming home from north - bound cycling trips.
The very idea of the public actively logging on to do so stretches credibility way
past breaking point.
Then make it a point to meet in person with anyone who matches items on your first list and doesn't
break any points on the deal - breaker list.
Do you think there's a psychological price
break point between $ 45 and $ 50 for the kind of work I do?
They've been much better in the postseason, allowing just over eight
fast break points per game.
Find the
natural break points Unfortunately, creating the product is often the easy part, at least for those companies that already possess adequate technical talent.
I haven't finished the novel, and I haven't gone back to see if / where there might be a logical
breaking point if I were to divide it.
We see the third bar already
breaks that point above or below, but it is still on the way to be formed, not completed yet....
For the
second break point to be hit, taxes have to rise such that the middle class starts to seek shelter from taxes.
During the manufacturing process, technicians could embed so - called frequency channels within the glass that would direct the vibrations to
certain break points.
He converted on two of three
break point attempts and won 92 percent of his first serves, plus 83 percent of his second serves.
They're both born competitors trying to overcome work past their
own break points, and the sex that divides them matters less than their shared determination to beat the odds.
With today's advanced instruments, astronomers can for the first time search the universe's gravitational extremes for relativity's
possible breaking point.
Still, that change is enough to
extend break point: the moment one feels forced to take a breath.
We believe that $ 250 mm is the
upper breaking point for funds to deliver attractive returns from more modest M&A exits.
And there are a few natural -
feeling break points in the process that would let you put your pork on pause if you needed to.
Speaking of bedtime, by that time of day, I am often out of patience so I will add 30 minutes to my regularly
scheduled breaking point.
It is regulated by receptor proteins located at the surface of specific cells that form a layer around the
future break point.
In a typical film, this would finally boil over, acting as the
ultimate breaking point that the film was literally building to from the beginning.
There's also the possibility to add to the current schedule of 21 races, though most teams will agree F1 is already at a
logistical breaking point.
The actual royalty percentages and
break points vary from publisher to publisher and are often subject to negotiation with the author.
You believe that we are are still too far from reaching the
social breaking point and no need to worry for now (more wealth) 4.
If you need a payday loan, you might be near the credit
score breaking point, and that's when a credit counselor can help.
You look for
obvious break points and draw straight lines at those points that roughly match the angle of the curve.
Instead their trophy - drought could now tick over into an eighth painful season and the frustration of the supporters is almost
at breaking point.
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