Mr. Gray's death was the breaking point, but it was a long time coming.
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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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?
Federal spending has propped up the economy, but now the government has borrowed to the breaking point.
But the breaking point for the government came over a new rescue package for the stricken banks.
Every 90 days, the stock market tests the ability of investors to absorb information to the breaking point.
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?
Our collective failure to meet this challenge year after year, decade after decade, has led us to the breaking point.
Both extremely hot and cold temperatures stress our electrical grid to the breaking point, and there is precious little in reserve.
"GE bent the accounting rules beyond the breaking point, " said Ms. Schapiro's then-director of enforcement, Robert Khuzami, in an official news release.
Using data dating all the way back to 1985, Munger has pinpointed 2004 as the breaking point where volatility was finally unleashed.
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But, he never would have guessed this would pull him into the world of our soldiers and stretch him to the breaking point.
That would effectively freeze Vonage's business and could be the breaking point for a company that is losing money and is facing rapidly growing competition.
Now that their populations are booming, thanks to the economic draw of oil and gas development, their innovative solutions from decades past are now reaching the breaking point.
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This is still below the 50 level generally seen as the breaking point between expansion and contraction, but is up from a final reading of 47.9 in September.
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It proved the breaking point as from the next possession the Wolves moved swiftly downfield and Jon Clarke put Wood over by the posts for the decisive try.
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The public affairs section is stretched to the breaking point.
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Panama City's current airport certainly isn't at the breaking point.
Stretching the analogy (perhaps to the breaking point): On a recent weekend I competed in a bicycle time-trial race of 3.35 miles, straight up the side of a mountain.
This rose to 49.1 from the final September reading of 47.9, showing improvement although it remained below the key 50 level that is the breaking point between economic expansion and contraction.
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Their leader, Jessie Lee (Mario Van Peebles), fights in a black Army unit in the Spanish-American War until a cruel, capricious white officer (Billy Zane) pushes him to the breaking point.
Unfortunately, with much of the landmark Dodd-Frank reforms still unimplemented, these same investors and savers remain exposed to many of the same risks that drove the financial markets to the breaking point in 2008.
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After a week of petrol and nail-bombs, stones, bottles, and occasional shots, a sighting of a man with a handgun and gas cylinders set to explode against the barricade may have been the breaking point.
When it comes to paying down the deficit and investing in our future, should we ask middle-class Americans to pay even more at a time when their budgets are already stretched to the breaking point?
The requirement to perform two such operations in an overlapping time frame, while maintaining other critical deployment and retain a strategic reserve would strain a force of this size and character, perhaps to the breaking point.
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