With Italian interest rates at all-time highs and near breaking point the ECB has dropped its base rate as a signal that it will come to the rescue of the European economy.
But the breaking point for the government came over a new rescue package for the stricken banks.
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 traditional dollar-based world currency system is now close to breaking point and the chances that it will come crashing down by 2016 are probably higher than fifty-fifty.
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While the pressure of meeting these new challenges can push CIOs to their breaking point, the flip side is that CIOs who can master this complexity are even more valuable to their companies.
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As SOPA pointed out, there is a breaking point in the discussion that is going to develop relatively soon.
If someone you know appears to be under undue strain or near the breaking point as a result of all the scary financial news this week, intervene to make someone aware of the situation and ensure they have the support they need.
The Royal College of Nurses has said morale was at breaking point, said the Labour MSP and the "SNP must stop spinning and wake up to the reality of staff struggling to cope".
President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, a staunch American ally whose relations with Mr Bush grew strained to breaking point, praises the new American president as precise, reasoned and willing to listen, in sharp contrast to his predecessor.
There is a sudden, blinding flash and a loud bang with the sound of breaking glass, at which point the recording stops.
Amanda Berry "just knew" that (suspect Ariel) Castro was gone at the time and "had hit her breaking point, " according to the source.
Supporters said the road network was "near breaking point" and new housing would make the problem worse.
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.
Federal spending has propped up the economy, but now the government has borrowed to the breaking point.
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.
When Arnold Begay reached his breaking point, two of the men lifted him to his feet and a woman cupped his face and sang to him.
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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