• Sometimes economic and political tensions go beyond the boiling point and lead to full-scale riots.

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  • Soon, physicists were cooking up ceramics that superconducted at around 90K. This may not sound all that balmy, but it is above 77K, the boiling point of nitrogen.

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  • Kelly is working with Michael W.W. Adams, a biochemistry professor at the University of Georgia who is an expert in microbes that live in places hotter than 212 degrees Fahrenheit, the boiling point of water.

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  • Ultimately, however, it didn't really work out, and with the pressure at boiling point, Spencer shocked the sport by suddenly resigning.

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  • The referee spoke to both teams as the temperature reached boiling point, but Leicester survived the handicap and kept their line intact.

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  • The situation reached a boiling point in the 1970s, when in the aftermath of Watergate, reformers transformed the system by weakening committee chairs, empowering party leaders and opening up the legislative process through sunshine rules and more.

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  • Only later, much later, as environmentalists stirred the controversy to a boiling point, did Plodprasop Suraswadi, chief of the forestry department, answer the charges.

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  • The timbermen's frustration reached boiling point last October, when members of the Associated Contract Loggers took the advice of a Twin Cities lawyer, Stephen Young, and filed suit against environmentalists and the Forest Service.

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  • Ponting had already been involved in a heated debate with umpire Aleem Dar about the state of the ball, but then neared boiling point when four overthrows raced past Krejza as he was being handed back his cap by the official.

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  • R134a has a relatively low boiling point, the water is hot enough to convert it into a gas.

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  • Outside of beaches, city parks and sidewalks, one common boiling over point in the poop wars is planned subdivisions, residential developments, and apartment buildings, where dog owners and non-owners share close quarters, adjacent homes, and often common or commonly owned areas including roadways and landscaping.

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  • More dangerous still, she's capable of boiling a breakfast egg to the point of what Jean-Louis considers perfection.

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  • Battle would surely have been joined by others - and an already hostile atmosphere inside The Stadium of Light could have reached boiling point.

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  • The era of Republican obstructionism is at a boiling point.

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  • The idea of using a liquid with a lower boiling point than water to drive a turbine is nothing new it has simply not proved worthwhile in the past.

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  • Because this was a reactor that operated on water that was already at its boiling point, this also meant that the pressure inside the reactor was rising as well.

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  • At this point, many cooks recommend blanching the goose in boiling water for a minute then letting it dry in the refrigerator for a day or two.

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  • But eventually, each atom encounters a plate at a temperature lower than its boiling point, at which point it sticks to the plate, just as water freezes when poured on to dry-ice.

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  • If it reaches a temperature that is too low, it automatically turns the heat up again, eliminating the need for a human to wait for it to reach boiling point and monitor whether it stays there.

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  • Campbell Robb, chief executive of housing charity Shelter, meanwhile, said that it spoke "every day to young people and families who are paying the price for a housing crisis that's been left to reach boiling point".

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  • He is with ModerateVoters.org, based in Irvine, California, and he says the Militant Middle started growing and coalescing around a broad slogan of "Throw the bums out" long before the Tea Party even started brewing -- and now it's reached a boiling point.

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  • When Obama and his supporters refer to income inequality, they are taking a complex set of economic and social issues and boiling them down to a single data point: how large is the difference between the annual incomes of top earners compared with those on the bottom of the income scale.

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  • And yet, Mr Maponya is worried about South Africa - about the angry crowds of jobless youths, the failing schools, the culture of entitlement, the cronyism in government, the widening wealth gap, the lack of urgency in tackling entrenched unemployment, and the danger that populist demagogues offering easy answers and old cliches will bring things to boiling point.

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  • The anti-cashists have escalated this sad drama to a point where it has become like boiling a frog.

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