Sentences with phrase «breaking point by»

Ecosystems are being stressed to the breaking point by the greedy, wasteful consumption of the Western lifestyle and its would - be imitators.

Friendswood By René Steinke Riverhead • $ 16 • ISBN 9781594633836 The bonds among neighbors in the small Texas town of Friendswood are strained to the breaking point by two controversies: a toxic waste dispute and a rape investigation.

Council leaders are warning that primary schools in England could be pushed to breaking point by the cost of creating places for extra pupils.

This is distorting the impact of the premium and adding extra workload on to schools at a time when school budgets are being pushed to breaking point by the need to step in and help children living near or below the poverty line.

They say school budgets are «already stretched to breaking point by successive cuts in recent years».

It said school budgets are «already stretched to breaking point by successive cuts in recent years».

She plays Christine Chubbuck, an intensely driven and already mentally fragile television reporter who, back in the 1970s, was driven to breaking point by her own perfectionism and the demands of the station where she worked.

In many ways, the notion of truth was what drew both Cruz and Bardem to Farhadi, the Iranian director whose last three films include two Oscar winners in the Best Foreign Language Film category: 2011's «A Separation» and 2015's «The Salesman,» both studies of families stretched to the breaking point by secrets and class and societal tensions.

It's time someone was brave enough to explore this difficult topic with unflinching clarity, and because veteran actors Jean - Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva give such subtle performances as the elderly couple whose loving relationship is tested to breaking point by terminal illness.

Whipping up a mighty buzz - storm at Sundance, Damien Chazelle's drummer drama Whiplash stars Miles Teller as a young percussionist pushed to the breaking point by his vicious drum instructor, played by JK Simmons.

But even without record - breaking heat, recent years have seen food riots from Bangladesh to Haiti as world agriculture was pushed to the breaking point by a combination of greater demand for food, biofuels and poor weather.

«All those who have had any involvement in this case, including the jury and the judge, have, however, been prepared to recognise that here was an exemplary teacher, in a fragile mental state, brought to breaking point by a number of critical failures on the part of his employer.

Prophetic categories are also stretched to the breaking point by comparing and contrasting Jesus and John the Baptist, who was indeed a prophet and self - consciously styled himself on the prophets of old.

Civic culture is strained to the breaking point by rapid social change.

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But the important issue is, if we increase GDP by 30 or 40 basis points, this plan is break - even.»

Bots can help solve this by working as a centralized point of contact where workers in different departments can communicate and collaborate without having to break the multidepartmental mold.

By Valentine's Day, as social psychologist Emily Balcetis points out in her thought - provoking talk, many already break their New Year's weight loss goals.

Everyone is dragging by that point and needs a break.

No - one at the Treasury was immediately able to break down the 3 billion pounds committed by Hammond, but obvious calls on the public purse include investment in new customs points and officers, increased staffing to handle migration issues, and new regulatory agencies to do the work currently done at EU level.

The Infatuation has guides and reviews for restaurants and bars, and breaks everything down by neighborhood, price, point, or occasion.

If you notice that, within a few months, your declining margins will push your break - even point too high to live with, you can take action now to fix the problem by adding a new, higher - margin product, getting rid of an old one, or beginning to stress marketing to a more profitable clientele.

With newspapers and television dominated by pictures and reports of hundreds of migrants who have either died or been turned away by the richest continent in the world, the situation has reached a breaking point for Europe's leaders.

Almost always the public pressure becomes so intense companies eventually break down and offer some sort of response, but by that point the damage is done and even the best crafted public message rings hollow and appears forced.

They found that the discovery of a high - quality break can raise growth by 2.2 percentage points a year.

Closer to home, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average collapsed by a record - breaking 554.26 points, the whole global economy seemed poised on a precipice.

Another section of content managed by Apple breaks down security policies for iCloud data and uses a chart and bullet points for clarity.

Echelon is now focusing its growth on «smart» commercial & municipal LED lighting (although its fab-less chip business has apparently now stabilized after a long decline), and if the lighting business accelerates (and it could, due to recent sales force hires and new products), I think there's a chance it can hit a break - even annualized revenue run - rate of $ 40 million by Q4 - 2019 (pushed back from my earlier hoped - for timeline) at which point — assuming $ 14 million of remaining net cash (vs. an estimated $ 18 million at the end of Q2 2018) and 4.7 million shares outstanding (vs 4.52 million today), an enterprise value of 1x revenue on this 53 % gross margin company would put the stock in the mid - $ 11s per share.

Mixing business and pleasure, Underground Elephant houses a sunken lounge where employees can take a break from the work day with coffee and beer supplied by local thirst quenchers, Ballast Point Brewing and Copa Vida coffee house.

For example, if you pay $ 3,000 for discount points to lower the monthly payments by $ 50, you'd need to live in the same house for five years to break even.

By entering your fixed costs, sales price per unit and variable cost per unit you can calculate your break - even point.

You can use bullet points, use a summary format, or break it all down job by job.

«Now we're about to enter into another round of finger - pointing and second - guessing while people all over the region wait for buses and Skytrains that don't come, break down or are so crowded they pass by.

To me, it seemed to complicate an easy concept of finding long term dividend raisers by breaking down these lists into subcategories but I see your point of using a more complete list to potentially find a new investment.

The EEM / SPY ratio trends in the same direction as the CRB Index and generally leads the CRB Index at major turning points, with trend reversals confirmed by EEM / SPY breaking above / below its 70 - week MA.

The break - even point is expressed in one of two ways: either the total dollars of revenue exactly offset by total expenses (fixed or variable), or in total units of production.

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At one point, while acknowledging Schleiermacher's decisive break with the past, he states that «it is nonetheless true that it involves a genuine extension of the Origenist tradition as mediated by Augustine.»

Anatol Lieven, writing recently in the London Review of Books, points to a 1996 policy paper «A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm,» by Perle and Douglas Feith, which advised Netanyahu to abandon the Oslo peace process and return to military repression of the Palestinians.

If Jesus embodies God's dreams for the world, then citizens of the Kingdom start by imitating him — by eating with the people he ate with, by telling the sort of stories he told, by healing and forgiving, by serving and praying, by resisting the temptations of power and money and violence, by breaking down religious barriers, by loving enemies, by showing humility and grace, by overturning some tables and dining at others, by being obedient to the point of death.

And finally, an important observation is furnished by Bronislaw Malinowski, who describes the transition from ordinary human experience to religious experience and belief as a «breaking point» to which the human organism reacts in spontaneous outbursts, and in which rudimentary modes of behavior and rudimentary beliefs are engendered.15

But the point is that IN THAT CONTEXT Calvinist theology was a much - needed pastoral and communal approach that helped people to break from the shackles of long - established systems of spiritual abuse by offering a different story to live by and a different kind of community to live in.

The stronger legal argument is to point out that they are being subsidized by the government using these special tax breaks.

only reason y i say this is because of Santification, once we give our life to the Lord, we streight way (so to speak) begin the process of Santification, this is Christ making us like him, and this Is SUFFERING It does nt happen over night, but for the duration of our time here, as you have said, its sort of like sin being done unto us, and we are handleing it just like Christ did, (with Love) of coarse with the help of the Holy Spirit, This Does NOT feel Good At ALL since our soulful flesh is Corrupt, (but our spirit is saved) This is were your trails and tribulation, your own desire, and All play apart, Now Moment by Moment we choose by our own will, And Jesus helps in these times, as he was tempeted, but without sin, The devil can do nothing but try and decieve the Christian into thinking that he has to work for his salvation as you have said, this thing here is about your Inheritance In Christ, Its gonna be some show nought broke christian in Heaven, because their trying to set of for themseleve trasure on earth, and their is going to be weeping and gnat of teeth, but it wont be, because of their going to Hell, It will be cause they miss out on what they could have had, and it is Devistation, cause they waste so much time, and they wont be able to attend the wedding, supper of the lamb, they wont be, getting the position over city, galacy, ectt... just check it out some of the points i have made, God Bless you!

Every individual in any society is free to break that morality at any point in time, but it is a risk / reward senario, as the consequences imposed by the society would then be applied.

But psychologically this dichotomic process, whereby at each point of choice something like a new spiritual species breaks away, is influenced throughout by a final orientation which qualifies or obscurely dictates each of the earlier choices: «In what direction and in what form are we to look for this new state of being which we expect to be born of our future development?

A slight unevenness of distribution occurring by chance at any given point (a contingency that was bound to arise) was all that was needed to cause the entire edifice to break up into parts which, sundering themselves from their neighbors, coiled in more and more tightly upon themselves in enormous clots — their vastness, by the law of celestial mechanics, being directly proportionate to the lightness of the matter of which they were originally composed.

She points out that while an older generation might have been enamoured of sex without consequences, their younger counterparts often associate such an outlook with dysfunctional relationships, broken families and personal unhappiness and by extension see the Christian vision of love as fulfilling and ultimately liberating.

For hope is an openness to the breaking in of what is completely unpredictable and unanticipated from the point of view of what is considered to be possible by ordinary standards of expectation.

Fishon... I think you misunderstand my position... my original point was that non-violence as taught by Jesus and practiced by those we call martyrs, Christian or otherwise is the calling and duty for those who want to break the myth of redemptive violence... or in other words, «might always makes right».

The distinction between the church, a broken human institution like every other, and the transcendent reality to which it points comes through clearly in the comments of many persons interviewed by researchers.