Though the pequots had been living peacefully alongside the colonists of Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut, tensions had been building, and this incident proved to be the breaking point.
Friday saw record-breaking point drops on the three US indices， with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down617.78 points， or5.66 per cent， to10，305.77， as financial stocks lost all their recent gains.
The integrity of the voting process will be tested to breaking point.
When function has the quality of intermediate value in the defined area, the type of breaking point must be the second kind.
Those rules are stretched to their breaking point when robots go to war.
But if we don't help, our security relationship with Japan will be stretched to the breaking point.
The extensive rice fields of Angkor might have taxed the environment to the breaking point.
I came to China with no prejudice against anyone but there is only so much man can take and we finally reach a breaking point.
But the financial wizards were too busy reinventing finance - or so they thought - to notice that their balance sheets were being stretched beyond their breaking point.
His new take on life causes friction with his best friend, Dallas (Cann), and both men find their friendship pushed to its breaking point, causing them to make life-changing decisions.
And the breaking point is given there in the third column, and we call that the ultimate tensile strength.
Digital life brings with it profound opportunities, but the systems in place to oversee it have reached the breaking point.
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