Sentences with phrase «is the last straw when»

That was our last straw when we left our most recent church.

Apart from his lack of consistency and his inability to stay fit for an extended period of time, I believe the new formation is the last straw when it comes to Theo's future in an Arsenal shirt.

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The last straw was when I got the opportunity to take my wife on a date, and we gagged all the way to dinner and all the way home.

But the last straw was waiting for that happy moment when the plane begins its descent and every baby on board starts wailing.

The last straw was when the parish council precluded any children from attending Sunday mass as that is a quiet time and that children should only come to mass on Saturday nights.

The construction worker was very revealing when he said that middle class Americans (hard hit by the downturn), are fed up with being ignored and that «this was the last straw».

«The last straw was Saturday morning, when I came in from a date, and he asked me, «Doesn't your St. Paul say something about not joining your body with a prostitute?»

Archbishop Puente had an uncertain command of the English language; but he had — or so, at times it almost seemed — an unerring instinct for disloyalty to Rome, and rewarded it where he could, so blatantly, indeed, that in the end Rome cottoned on to what was happening: the last straw, it seems, was when he placed Bishop Crispian Hollis at the head of the terna for Southwark.

Sanchez stomps off pitch when substituted, this is last straw, wants to leave, wants to stay in PL so it must be manc.

The decline has been evident over the last 12 years; however the final straw for me was the signing of no outfield players, when Cech was signed in 2015.

The last straw was when he told Cristiano Ronaldo he had found a new dad in Carlos [Queiroz, Ferguson's assistant]-- just after Ronaldo's dad, who was an alcoholic, had died.»

The last straw for Manchester City was when the striker and his manager hit the headlines in January after a brawl following a stern tackle from Balotelli on City's Scott Sinclair.

Since their return from injury i have tried to give Welbeck and Wilshire the benefit of the doubt when others have slagged them off for some pretty average displays.Regrettably I am now of the opinion that they will never reach the standards required to make a meaningful contribution towards the revival of Arsenal and along with 3/4 others in the current squad they should be moved on.Their performances against Stoke was the last straw as far as I am concerned.It will be interesting to see if Gareth Southgate shares my views and does not include them in his World Cup squad.

The last straw was when he made us miss the beginning of our daughter's high school play recently, even though... Read more»

The last straw was when my MIL insisted on taking my then two - month - old son in late December to visit with friends.

Your last straw was when your toddler managed to give the dog a new hairdo with play dough, which is now dry.

The last straw for Evelyn Araujo was when the principal of the school where she was a volunteer walked over as she was breast - feeding her 10 - month - old and suggested that she go home to nurse her son and come back when she finished.

And so, when he took that vote last week, to me that was the last straw.»

When the White House announced the US would withdraw from the Paris Accord, that was the last straw.

The last straw came in 2012, when, following a selection process that Mena qualifies as controversial, he failed to be appointed as a full professor at EPN, a turn of events that «hurt [me] a lot,» he says.

The last straw was when I was told by the minister's adviser that I should look after myself.

The last straw came for me when a friend of mine (who knew I trained hard in the gym) was talking to a bunch of girls.

One Other Issue... The last straw for me was when I got a virus on my site.

Dating online is the last straw for when a woman does not succeed.

2018-04-08 15:48 Remember when you were a kid — or last night at the bar, whatever — and you scrunched down a straw wrapper, dropped water on it, and watched Doctors, nurses and soldiers are unlikely to see a pay rise until April 2018 at earliest, Downing Street has signalled.

Remember when you were a kid — or last night at the bar, whatever — and you scrunched down a straw wrapper, dropped water on it, and watched Doctors, nurses and soldiers are unlikely to see a pay rise until April 2018 at earliest, Downing Street has signalled.

One legacy of his years at church is a pervading sense that the world may end soon, and when he insists that his new girlfriend drive him away from Sydney in her father's car because he anticipates nuclear war as a result of the Cuban Missle Crisis, it is the last straw in their relationship.

Milly's always been self - centered and needy, a characteristic her condition only amplifies, and when Jess catches her in a hurtful lie it's the last straw.

In 1971, the citizens of Alexandria, Virginia were already angry at the forced racial integration in their high school, but when the job of football coach goes to an African - American (Denzel Washington), it's the last straw.

«One of the last straws for her, she said, was when Carstarphen came in one morning and harangued the group of nearly 20 senior leaders for about 40 minutes, telling them in a raised voice how incompetent they were.»

For the West Chester Area School District, the last straw for class rank came when a University of Pennsylvania admissions officer told school officials that a highly qualified graduate had been rejected because she was ranked 15th out of 320 students.

For Hall, the last straw was when, before her eyes, a boy tried to stab her daughter in the face with a pencil.

The last straw was when it got towed to the dealership and their test equipment indicated the Hybrid Battery (big one in the trunk) was at fault.

Then when Emile tells her he's found someone else, that was the last straw.

Betting your companies entire future on QNX, when your NOT even sure it will work, will be the last straw for investors (on top of the delays that will come for sure), especially when most U.S. / WallStreet investors have already bailed & there are only Canadian investors left.

When Denise Cunningham is served with foreclosure papers on her birthday it's the last straw in a long line of bad luck.

Dogs show aggression when they're protecting something, when they're frightened, or as a last straw act when someone isn't picking up on their other warning signs.

The last straw was when Lucky ended up in the emergency vet, as Tilly had bitten him badly on the neck.

But the final straw was last night, when I pissed in the middle of my owner's bed.»

I understand totally that this change stinks, and when you couple it with other recent changes United has made (max segments on some awards, United Club downgrades, revenue requirement for elite status, etc.), it may be the last straw for a few to leave the program.

One source notes that the last straw for the studio was when Microsoft boss Phil Spencer visited the building with a briefcase full of Horizon screenshots that he had printed out as «critical design inspiration», and personally hung one in the cubicle of every developer.

Another example, and one of the more frustrating one is later on in the game you are set with defending a base, don't worry I don't put spoilers in my reviews, from hordes of enemies trying to destroy certain objects that you need to defend, and it is one of the worst missions in the game simply because the game mechanics kept fighting against me with everything it got, but after quite some time, and numerous retries I finally managed to complete the first 4 or 5 parts of the mission, and the game had me then racing up a mountain chasing a plane which I then had to try and get onto, which again, is fine, but when the game freezes up on me and blue screens and puts me back to the dashboard, only to have me reboot the game and starting that mission all over again, that was almost the last straw for me.

However, when I get my hands on one, I am relentless and guzzle it up, usually to the point that my wife has to tell me to stop making disgusting sounds as I suck the straw like an addict trying to get just one last tiny hit from his crack pipe.

The last straw was when I came across an extraordinary example of Magic - Realism by a 19th - century Swiss woman.

In his diary, Anselm Kiefer notes: «this heavy lead bandage that can no longer be detached from the paint skin, these festering sores welling out from the still boiling lead when the pigment beneath it is not bone dry, the little straws on a field that I painted years ago and that appear as charred leavings on the solidified lead — all this reminds me of the Baudelaire poems I reread last year.»

In his diary — which will partly be published in the catalogue accompanying the exhibition and gives prime access to the artist's creative process — Kiefer notes: «This heavy lead bandage that can no longer be detached from the paint skin, these festering sores welling out from the still boiling lead when the pigment beneath it is not bone dry, the little straws on a field that I painted years ago and that appear as charred leavings on the solidified lead — all this reminds me of the Baudelaire poems I reread last year in Portugal.»

It seemed to be the last straw, too, for Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in New York, when in 1999 he withdrew funding from a museum planning to display Ofili's work.

I'm not a fan of drinking straws, and can't actually remember the last time I opted to use one, but when you have kids, you do all sorts of things you never thought you would, and straws are now a part of our daily life because my children love to use them.

Well, the last straw was when A2 told us we had a week to move.

It was held that the «last straw» principle simply means that the final matter which leads to the acceptance of a repudiatory breach of contract when taken together and cumulatively with earlier conduct entitles a party to accept a repudiatory breach of contract, whether that last matter is in itself a breach of contract or not.