Sentence examples for a point of causing from inspiring English sources

So much has happened to these coaches since the 2011 World Cup when French player-power came within a point of causing a national nervous breakdown in New Zealand, almost all good for Steve Hansen, mostly mediocre for Phillipe Saint-André.

"The Annenbergs made a point of somehow causing interesting conversations to take place".

This has been a traumatic shift, to the point of causing a dividend cut a few years ago, but Congagra is rolling now, paced by a narrower portfolio led by such stars as Healthy Choice grocery store foods and Marie Callender's restaurants.

Excessive ice on wings reduces lift, sometimes to the point of causing a plane to crash.

Israel has been walking a political tightrope since Hamas's victory, trying to delegitimize the militant Islamic party but not to destabilize the government it now runs to the point of causing a crisis for the general population.

The family shocks one another to the point of causing a power drain on the city and driving the doctor's other patients away.

The Freedom Caucus is known for standing on principle to oppose legislation, whatever the cost — to the point of causing a government shutdown by opposing funding over conservative priorities.

Terminal operators and shipping lines said that they would stop the unloading of ships Thursday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, because they don't want to pay overtime to workers who, they allege, have deliberately slowed operations to the point of causing a massive bottleneck.

This has escalated to the point of causing a prominent sociopolitical controversy within the province.

This is when people get off on being forced to hold their pee in for long periods of time, sometimes to the point of causing "an accident".

Later, point mutations, which can increase the complexity of an LCR sometimes to the point of causing LCR death (Radó-Trilla and Albà 2012), might then change the sequence enough to obscure its origin within an LCR.