Mr. Gray's death was the breaking point, but it was a long time coming.
It is impossible to know when a society has reached a breaking point until it happens.
New Yorkers who have long shrugged off corruption scandals may be reaching their breaking point, too.
But their connection to the ultimate source of authority has been stretched to the breaking point.
The deluge of orders, most of them irrelevant, has pushed our exchanges to the breaking point.
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And according to one former UK ambassador, it might be about to reach a breaking point.
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Earlier on, Angela Eagle had claimed that relations between the coalition partners were at breaking point.
The Supreme Court stretched the concept almost to the breaking point with Wickard v.
What about the military families pushed to the breaking point by unprecedented multiple deployments?
He said later that the decision strained his vow of obedience almost to breaking point.
Federal spending has propped up the economy, but now the government has borrowed to the breaking point.
Supporters said the road network was "near breaking point" and new housing would make the problem worse.
But the breaking point for the government came over a new rescue package for the stricken banks.
Given that, does the President have a deadline, a breaking point in his own mind at this point?
Every 90 days, the stock market tests the ability of investors to absorb information to the breaking point.
"There is only so much abuse a man can take until he reaches breaking point, " Adebayor told The Sun.
However, let us not forget, even the old hospitals are at breaking point.
As SOPA pointed out, there is a breaking point in the discussion that is going to develop relatively soon.
The breaking point came this summer when one of Selekman's gay brothers died, having had hepatitis C and lung cancer.
The best of them could anticipate the breaking point with an individual before it occurred, and get them some rest.
Definitely stretching the concept of "rational" to the breaking point, but who wants to pick a fight with New York?
Unison said a combination of different factors, including increased demand and reduced government funding, had stretched resources to "breaking point".
He said even in Syria, where Christians and Muslims had long lived together peacefully, tensions were building to breaking point.
Care and support in England has reached breaking point, putting older people at risk and their families under intolerable strain.
Our collective failure to meet this challenge year after year, decade after decade, has led us to the breaking point.
There have been financial pressures for many years, but the government's cuts are now driving care services to breaking point.
And Cafu believes that Brazil's 'Three Rs' attack of Ronaldo, Rivaldo and Ronaldinho can stretch the English rearguard to breaking point.
Both extremely hot and cold temperatures stress our electrical grid to the breaking point, and there is precious little in reserve.
Today's mega data centers are nearing a breaking point where further growth is restricted due to the current economics of traditional infrastructure.
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"GE bent the accounting rules beyond the breaking point, " said Ms. Schapiro's then-director of enforcement, Robert Khuzami, in an official news release.
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