Sentences with phrase «past breaking point»

However, a new study indicates that rainforests can be very vulnerable to fire, and it warns the current combination of climate change and deforestation may be pushing Amazon forests past the breaking point.

A new study indicates that rainforests are more vulnerable to fire than previously thought, and it warns the current combination of climate change and deforestation may be pushing Amazon forests past the breaking point.

A National Post story says that, in an interview published July 1st and appearing in the French - language news weekly L'Express, «Suzuki was asked about Australian environmentalists who oppose immigration to their country because they believe population growth will drain natural resources past their breaking point.»

The repercussions of the ongoing atmospheric aerosol spraying assault (combined with the constant bombardment of radio frequency transmissions), has now pushed our planet well past the breaking point.

Fragile countries already stretched to their limits could be pushed past the breaking point into complete state failure.

We all know game developers can push NVidia's chipset past the breaking point.

If their morale is past the breaking point, enemies might flee the fight or even die from fear.

At a tad under two hours, «22 Jump Street» is too long, with some of the situations extending well past their breaking point.

With his unkempt hair and unbuttoned shirt, Mendelsohn's Gerry has clearly pushed his gambling luck past the breaking point.

Here, the bonds between Gary and Andy have been strained past the breaking point.

Scenes that initially provide chuckles (Hobie trying to learn one line of dramatic dialogue, for instance) get stretched past their breaking point.

The film is punishing and rewarding in equal measure and among recent bests for rattling audience tensions past the breaking point.

The Oscar race might be straining the Santa Barbara film festival past its breaking point.

From here, «The Boss Baby» gets a bit too hyperactive for its own good, stretching a thin, short children's book past its breaking point.

But unfortunately, not a new director, nor a new cast of characters, and even the return of composer Hans Zimmer can save On Stranger Tides from being anything but an overly - long, silly, and uninspiring installment in a franchise that is clearly stretching its material past its breaking point.

Checkpoints are spaced throughout the level, and while the game will push your patience, as well as your ability, it's never past breaking point.

At least you're realizing that there's not enough intriguing story elements to stretch out a script past its breaking point.

Scenes go on too long, the plot spins its wheels, and one can sense that the narrative is being stretched well far past its breaking point.

It's dull, unengaging, and features a plot that is stretched out far past its breaking point.

There's no point in hiding from this: there is an arc around the south east of England where demand is past breaking point.

The very idea of the public actively logging on to do so stretches credibility way past breaking point.

In an emergency, food supplies are disrupted, there may be no clean water with which to make up infant formula or to clean feeding implements, and the health care system is stretched past breaking point.

Health care systems are invariably stretched past breaking point.

The temperature trends must not be extended past these break points.

Not exact matches

Key Points Bitcoin cash price surged higher this past week and broke $ 600 against the US Dollar.

They're have grown about 20 % month over month for the past 2 years, and have hit the break - even point.

``... status quo political and economic institutions — particularly Central Banks — have failed to protect incomes and have pushed income and wealth inequality past a political breaking point.

As Kagan points out, the «so - called Bush Doctrine» marks no break with past American policy.

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.»

Sartre points out that the old soldier chose this meaning for the past, and that he could have chosen to give a different meaning to the past and therefore making a radical break with it.

«Heated past its smoke point, that fat starts to break down, releasing free radicals and a substance called acrolein, the chemical that gives burnt foods their acrid flavor and aroma.

And believe me, I've gotten those comments in the past on other recipes where someone can't understand the point of tinkering around with something that's already «perfection» (in their humble opinion, of course), or isn't broken, if you know what I mean...

To rectify this issue we analyzed our pick performance over the past six months to determine the break - even points for bettors — i.e. how much money should be bet on each game to justify a subscription?

Heading into the summer break he's 33 points off of championship leader Vettel but has been the highest - scoring driver over the past five Grands Prix, and has put in a number of impressive drives.

Djokovic needed just 68 minutes to move past his Devvarman, easily controlling his service games and facing just one break point throughout the entire match.

Del Potro won 7 of 10 break points and committed 10 fewer unforced errors than Harrison, a 20 - year - old from Austin, Texas who has never gotten past the second round at a Grand Slam event.

At that point the Yankees — in years past the team everyone wanted to break up — seemed on the verge of earning for themselves some modern technological appellation.

I love this confident mood among the gooners after a huge sin over our arch enemies, especially with international break on, which means two weeks of party mood, hopefully we can consolidate united win by defeating Watford otherwise it will be back to square one, so the boys and the management should be as motivated as they were against united, we have seen in past they getting over confident against the so called small teams and dropping unnecessary points, 3 pts are 3 pts regardless of the opponents.

Jurgen Klopp's side then put the game out of sight 12 minutes after the break, as a horrendous mistake from Hector Bellerin allowed summer signing Mohamed Salah, who joined the club from Roma for # 34M according to the BBC, to go through one - on - one with Cech and, with the whole half to himself, slotted the ball past the former Chelsea shot - stopper to all but secure the three points for the home side, much to the joy of the Anfield faithful.

That would piss me off more than us keeping him a little bit past the moral breaking point of 49er fans.

Bacary Sagna almost single - handedly marked Footballer of the Year Eden Hazard out of the game, while Aleksandar Kolarov's overlapping runs past Raheem Sterling caused overload after overload, stretching the Chelsea defence to breaking point.

Morris has dropped in 14 or more points in 13 of his 25 games since the All - Star Break and scored 15 points in each of his past two games against Toronto.

@TheDarkLord: The whole point of Corbyn's leadership was a radical break with the past.

For his part, Goodman pointed to his unique experience as executive director of the 161st Street Business Improvement District in the South Bronx, where he organized a sit - down with all of the borough's precincts and BIDs to discuss ways to move past broken - windows policing and toward community policing.

They assume that strain on a fault is building steadily and that the same segment of fault that broke in the past will produce a similar break again in the future, once it reaches the same breaking point.

They'd seen slowdowns in the past, often associated with natural cycles in the Earth's climate — England pointed to periods when the Earth has taken a break from warming, such as from 1945 to the late 1970s.

The shot represents a milepost in an effort to get past the break - even point - ignition - in coaxing fusion energy from a tiny frozen fuel pellet

There is a break point, or an optimum, past which going any bigger is unnecessary,» explains Cameron Robertson, chief structural designer at AeroVelo and co-founder.

My nails usually break the second they get to a certain length, but they are past that point and feel stronger than ever.

In the past two weeks, Quentin Tarantino «s «The Hateful Eight» and the Will Ferrell - Mark Wahlberg comedy «Daddy's Home» have joined the already - crowded Christmas Day frame currently occupied by «Point Break,» a movie rumored to cost $ 100 million - plus that doesn't boast a single major movie star, no offense to the wildly talented Edgar Ramirez.