Englishfor English speakers
Examples cone point examples
How do I use cone point in a sentence?
News and current affairs
One of these species, orange roughy, has been caught commercially for only around a quarter-century, but already is being fished to the point of collapse.
The whole point of restructuring was to discharge debt and make the remainder more manageable.
Of course, this may not be the breaking point beyond which the debt burden becomes unsustainable.
At that point, the trouble grabbed widespread attention, destroyed public confidence, and set in motion a negative feedback loop.
This three-point program would lay the ground for economic resurgence.
To contain today's financial and economic crisis, Europe will also need to continue the cooperation that it has shown up to this point.
We are approaching a point of no return, at which feedback loops will kick in and continue to warm the planet, no matter what we do.
At that point, Americans will join the stampede out of their economy.
China, India, and other developing nations, have a point - or rather, three points.
So the fierce debate over whether to increase the size of American ground forces in Iraq is beside the point.
There is no point in trying to win the hearts and minds of major drug traffickers.
That six-percentage-point difference in anticipated real yield is a measure of bond investors' extraordinary and irrational panic.
Giving lectures about fiscal prudence is beside the point.
A key point here is that institutional arrangements are, by necessity, country-specific.
This is Manicheanism of the left, and, like Manicheanism of the political right, it can distort reality to the point of becoming divorced from it.
Moreover, land for peace never made sense from an economic point of view.
Similarly, regardless of the outcome of DSK's trial in New York, the case might represent a turning point in the treatment of women in Europe.
The point, simply, is that with so many people in so many countries demanding far-reaching change, the politics of gender is very much in play - in Europe and beyond.
September 11, 2001, was a terrible tragedy by any measure, but it was not a historical turning point.
Every percentage-point fall in growth has direct social consequences, whether on nutrition levels, infant mortality, or school attendance.
It is impossible at this point to gauge the full extent of the damage with any degree of precision.