Sentences with phrase «country arrived at this point»

Washington's inability to come to an agreement on the debt limit has many Americans asking how the country arrived at this point.

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And for Greece's own wealthier classes, the EU loan package would enable the country to remain within the Eurozone long enough to permit them to move their money out of the country before the point arrived at which Greece would be forced to replace the euro with the drachma and devalue it.

The first point he makes is this: «As we gain happiness through suffering,» he says, «so do we arrive at holiness through infirmity, because man's very condition is a fallen one; and in passing out of the country of sin, he necessarily passes through it.»

I think right now we can get away with not asking these hard questions because enough people on earth still live in relative poverty and are not creating the waste that we as a country create, but when that changes (and it will), or when we have created so much waste ourselves as to arrive at that critical tipping point, we will need to have difficult conversations about these things.

Then comes the onslaught of visitors who make it a point to get there themselves after hearing one too many stories of how great the country is and how few tourists are there, and who arrive somewhat aghast at the number of other travelers there doing the same.

Several days after the incident Lawrence arrived at the country club, equipped with the odd and slightly gruesome tools of his trade: a fishing rod with a four - pointed hook on the line, a pole tipped with a wire noose, and a roll of electrician's tape.

Support for voice controls will arrive for Amazon Alexa - enabled devices when those begin to ship to customers within the country and for Google Home at some point in the coming weeks.

Still, voice - enabled payments might not arrive in other countries anytime soon, considering that they rely on identifying users via the iris scanner, which is available only in Korea at this point.