Sentences with phrase «point of collapse»

Africa and Muslim nations are overpopulating to the point of collapse and exporting its over population problems to the developed world.

Individuals living in Japan, the United States, or Germany don't worry about rampant inflation, a national infrastructure that is at the point of collapse, or the availability of basic

Individuals living in Japan, the United States, or Germany don't worry about rampant inflation, a national infrastructure that is at the point of collapse, or the availability of basic necessities, such as food and medicine.

Our postmodern culture advances a theology of divine immanence, sometimes to the point of collapsing the distinction between God and the world.

The idea that the U.S. was an unquestioned military colossus athwart the world, which no power or people could effectively oppose, was hubristic nonsense certain to get the country into deep trouble — as it did — and bring the U.S. Army to the point of collapse, as happened in Vietnam and may well happen again in Iraq (and Afghanistan).

They were cooked to the point of collapse, completely soft and yielding, a process that took (gasp!)

When it was over, after being pushed to the point of collapse, the relief and satisfaction showed on their faces.

He thereby commits to current Tory budgets when, for example, even Tories recognise that such a stance will bring the NHS to the point of collapse.

«If you get to the point of collapse, then you have a real problem.»

Type Ib, Type Ic and Type II supernovae stars start out so huge — possibly 8 times the size of our sun — that they cannibalize themselves to the point of collapse [source: NASA].

When we take antibiotics, we slowly weaken our immune system to the point of collapse.

Johnnie Burn's sound design — one jagged, anxious frisson stretched to the point of collapse — is in itself well worthy of an Oscar nod.

... expands the horizons of boredom to the point of collapse, turning into a black hole of dullness, from which no interesting concept can escape.

The spectacle is threefold, though the elements have a way of overlapping: 1) You're witnessing the anatomy of a disaster as seen from the inside; 2) You're watching a somewhat bizarre personality deal with a cataclysm of his own making; and 3) You're witness to a marriage that is straining almost to the point of collapse.

The book's central thesis — that outdoor cats must be eradicated in the name of biodiversity and public health — is, like the authors» credibility, undermined to the point of collapse by weak — often contradictory — evidence, and a reckless arrogance that will be hard to ignore even for their fellow fring - ervationsists.

Many dogs have a tendency to push themselves to the point of collapse, so be your dog's coach and make sure she doesn't overdo it.

There are two modes: standing forms comprising unstable towers of orthogonal cubes that seem to be at the point of collapse, and bodies at rest which have lost their orthogonal qualities and are transformed into abstract matrices.

The graphite drawing sourced from images of walkers from different publications, reveals a human landscape at the point of collapse.

Appearing in a series of sculptural situations, often on the point of collapse, or running through some seemingly meaningless protocol, Griffiths» creation is a tragi - comic figure: a naked, puppet - like Caucasian male who seems not to know that his strings — if they ever held him up — have now been decisively cut.

Abstract works from A Narrow Passage are comprised of materials that twist, turn, bond, choke, or smother to the point of collapse, while others have approached constriction in a more gratifying way, like the comforting sensation of a warm embrace or the euphoric feeling of pleasure derived from pain.

At times, motifs such as painted toenails, mattresses and boxing gloves can be discerned in her work, though these appear at the point of collapse or transformation.

Some of Feasel's new pictures appear stretched compositionally to the point of collapse, especially «Thaw» (2001), in which two thin rivulets connect nearly full and nearly empty halves of the canvas.

Major public cultural institutions in Greece are on the point of collapse, say leading Greek art professionals, as concerns mount that the country faces insolvency after 61 % of the population rejected bailout proposals earlier this week made by international creditors.

The images mimic their sources to the point of collapse; their vibrations slightly off, their exposition flawed by human intimacy.

The artist creates fragile paper sculptures, which are then temporarily balanced and then photographed at the point of collapse, capturing the millisecond of the work's stability and enabling the viewer a sustained view of the ephemeral, resulting in colourful abstract images blurring the boundaries between painting and photography.

Preceding and following the point of collapse are periods with a high incidence of fluctuations, usually omnidirectional (the summer of 2002 in Europe was one of the coldest and wettest on record, the following one the hottest and driest ever recorded), but not unusual or novel per se on a system - wide level.

Among other defects, this process was grounded in an overindulgence of the rhetorical claim that the IWC is at a point of collapse requiring urgent resolution at whatever the cost.

Adorno and Horkheimer, in their influential «Dialectic of Reason», start (like Hitler) from the idea that «bourgeois civilisation» is on the point of collapse.

Peter Wadhams, professor of ocean physics at Cambridge University, who was branded «alarmist» after he first detected «substantial thinning» of sea ice in 1990, said: «The entire ice cover is now on the point of collapse.»

States may be stressed to the point of collapse.

Human - assisted species invasions of pests, competitors and predators are rising exponentially, and over-exploitation of fisheries, and forest animals for bush meat, to the point of collapse, continues to be the rule rather than the exception.

At the point of collapse, the owner could be (reasonably likely) destitute anyway, so there may be very little in the way of real consequences, but if there are still assets, like a home, other monies, etcetera, you see that there could be problems.