Sentences with phrase «to break point»

The prolonged period of low prices pushed many stressed producer states to the breaking point, and these casualties of the market share war now are threatening to push the market into an acute deficit situation, putting shale's superman status to a serious test.
«Between launching in China and launching the new Model X, Tesla is reaching a critical make - or - break point,» Brauer said.
This crisis hit the world's banking system hard, stressed whole economic regions to breaking point, almost defeated the world's (then) largest currency and has yet to be, basically, sorted out.
He was nearing the breaking point.
When consumers reach the breaking point, one expects to see rising numbers of mortgages in arrears.
But now, with the aging baby boom generation threatening to strain the country's single - payer system to the breaking point, provinces are exploring new avenues of public - private partnership.
Put those all together, and we'll be over our breaking point
An unexpected expense or sudden cost increase is often responsible for the shortfall, and it may well be the final breaking point for a business that's already struggling.
It will be difficult, but as this Occupy movement showed, young people are at the breaking point.
«Our members have overwhelmingly voted for strike action because British Airways» pay rates are indefensible and the crew are at breaking point
He tried again to create a new prototype, but more pressure from Murphy pushed the inventor to the breaking point, and he called it quits, ruining his reputation in the automobile industry.
Slovakia's government has moved a step closer to breaking point amid corruption allegations following the double murder of a journalist and his partner.
But the Washington Post just did something that many feel strains that tradition to the breaking point.
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.
But you squeezed your employees to the breaking point so they would cheat customers and you could drive up the value of your stock and put hundreds of millions of dollars in your own pocket.
The event was a breaking point in the community's resentment of L.A. police chief William Parker «and what they considered his double standard toward [African Americans] and whites,» according to LIFE magazine's editorial prefacing its Aug. 27, 1965, cover story on the riots.
We tend to snap at people when we are reaching our breaking point.
Find the natural break points Unfortunately, creating the product is often the easy part, at least for those companies that already possess adequate technical talent.
«This sarcastic phrase indicating a breaking point or speechlessness is entirely overused and can undermine the speaker's professionalism.
At 37signals, Fried says, he and his partners look for the natural «break points» in a product, and create tiers accordingly.
In some ways, it's a double break point
In his 2006 book, A Thousand Barrels a Second, Tertzakian predicted a new energy break point within 10 years, when major economies would switch from one «disadvantaged» source of energy to one, or several, other options.
There is, of course, another way of dealing with a break point, which is cutting back energy use, though it has seldom been used throughout history.
Then came that night in 1998 when Alvin reached his breaking point.
Was there a breaking point for your company?
Training and expense costs are tax deductible for Olympians but most Olympic competitors spend years working regular jobs or going to school while enduring grueling practice sessions that push bodies to their breaking points.
The different countries and aid organizations» resources are already stretched to a breaking point and failing to find accommodation for the hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants coming to Europe.
Entrepreneurs push themselves to the breaking point, enduring high levels of stress as they confront the unknown path ahead.
The consolidation of distributors in North America has reached a breaking point and I think there are plenty of people in beverage alcohol looking for other options.»
This leads to a frightening conclusion: that both lower quality and lower yields of such «previously sacrosanct debt represent a potential breaking point in our now 40 - year - old global monetary system.»
He estimated that the breaking point could be when AB InBev owned some 50 percent of distributors in a given area.
The tension over continuing to work with Mr. Trump reached a breaking point at Uber because Mr. Kalanick was, until Thursday, one of the most vocal proponents among tech chiefs of engaging with the president.
Baltimore economist Anirban Basu said he is optimistic about the economy in 2018, but suggested a breaking point may be coming in the years ahead.
Trade tensions reached a breaking point in 1890.
Polls indicate the Greek public is close to the breaking point after more than 20 months of harsh austerity cuts and tax hikes.
There probably isn't a magic bond yield that will shake the world's faith in the US financial system, but with tens of trillions of dollars tied to the US 10 year yield, there is a likely a breaking point out there.
Given your belief that Berkshire's intrinsic value continues to exceed its book value with the difference continuing to widen over time, are we at a point where it makes sense to consider buying back stock at a higher break point that Berkshire currently has in place and would you ever consider stepping in buying back shares that did dip down below 1.2 times book value per share even if that prior years» figure had not yet been released?
But they've grown more frequent, and are lasting longer, as the OPEC nation's economy hits a breaking point with hyperinflation making increasingly scarce food and medicine unaffordable for many.
«While many believe that we may be reaching a breaking point in the region, factors driving the market will likely remain unchanged in the new year.
But while the Liberal government has acknowledged that fares are beyond a breaking point, they are still neglecting this escalating problem, sitting on their hands while this situation gets worse,» said New Democrat ferries critic Claire Trevena.
Are these events the new normal or are we at a breaking point?
Every team who participated in this final challenge were asked to actively print structurally sound habitat parts from their own construction materials — parts which were then crushed until their breaking point to test their strength and durability.
``... 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.
That inch could be the breaking point for your muscles, taking them from tired to exhausted — your goal every single time!
Individual investors are relatively less skillful during and since the financial crisis than before (break point at end of 2007).
Huobi has continued coin withdrawals, a representative said in an instant message, with a breaking point of 50 coins for each exchange and 50 exchanges for each day.
If the Boomers themselves retire broke, they'll stress family support systems to the breaking point.
Anybody who did charts like that can tell that there's an intersection, a breaking point, and there's a crisis.
It is here, where the moral bonds of voluntary attachment have not yet been stretched beyond the breaking point, that true moral discourse can be maintained, especially, as Michael W. McConnell says, «over the highest things - matters of ultimate truth and value.»
But if attempts to do so are illogical, in that they stretch truth to the breaking point, they're unlikely to be pastorally effective.
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