Sentence examples for at a boiling point from inspiring English sources

But Washington's endless dithering on immigration policy has the whole country at a boiling point.

"Tensions between these two historic enemies have been high in recent years, but we believe they are now at a boiling point," Khamenei said.

He added that former agents at the Bureau had told him that "there's a revolution going on inside the F.B.I., and it's now at a boiling point".

The administration's defense of a process that is throwing many Americans out of their homes echoes its tightrope walk in the spring of 2009, when public anger over Wall Street pay was at a boiling point.

And the decisions by Walmart and Macy's, two towering figures in the industry, have sent a clear message: The pressure to keep up with customers is at a boiling point.

He then worked with volunteers, church groups and local teachers to put on educational programming for up to 200 children a day, said the ALA, while racial tensions were "at a boiling point".

After decades of hand-wringing, deal making and court rulings, the question of what to do about the ultra-Orthodox — known as Haredim — and the army has now come to what Moshe Halbertal, a professor of Jewish philosophy at Hebrew University, described as "a boiling point, a moral crisis".

However, there is much opportunity for confusion: scientific units of measurement are often omitted and physical constraints (e.g. pressure at which a boiling point was measured) are not recorded.

"We have to take a hard look at them and look at serious structural reform". The turmoil at the agency reached a boiling point April 13 when Gov. Jerry Brown signaled he had seen enough finger-pointing.

The TEG working fluid has a very low vapor pressure at ordinary temperature and a boiling point of 287.3 °C.

Further, 1,2-propanediol, despite being a liquid at room temperature with a boiling point of 187 °C, is detected in protein precipitated serum; however, its NMR peak intensity is attenuated due to sample drying (see Figures 1 and 2), and hence, under such circumstances, its peak intensity underestimates its concentration in blood.