Sentence examples for crossing a rubicon from inspiring English sources

Wenger described the victory as the "perfect performance", admitting at the same time that it was the "greatest escape", and the sense of crossing a Rubicon was shared by his players.

"Part of the challenge of getting to the bottom of it for me," he said, "is that I viewed it as so frivolous that it didn't spark a lot of, like, 'O.K., I started doing it on this day' or 'O.K., now I'm crossing a Rubicon.' For a thoughtful person, it's remarkable how little thought I really gave to it until it was too late.

I knew at that moment I was crossing a rubicon," he said.

"I knew at that moment that I was crossing a rubicon because this would be seen by NI as pretty much an act of war.

"Someday, people will have to cross a Rubicon, because there will be events like foreclosures," Lewis said.

LESLIE GELB: I think we're about to cross a Rubicon, and in modern times it's every bit as fateful as Caesar's crossing.

But if AlphaGo really is a demonstration that machines could be intuitive, then we have definitely crossed a Rubicon of some kind.

What he can't yet know is that by entering the hotel, having guilelessly said no to the friendly neighborhood prostitute outside, he has crossed a Rubicon.

The bank has crossed a Rubicon with the bond purchases, which some economists argue could spur inflation by increasing the money supply.

France's Socialist Party-led government appeared to have crossed a rubicon by allowing police to violate the safe haven of schools, many of which bear the Revolutionary motto "Freedom, Equality and Brotherhood" above their gates.

Some who get the letter view it with dread or with humor, but since all recipients have just turned 50, they cannot help but see it as a symbol: they have just crossed a Rubicon.