Sentence examples for endurance point from inspiring English sources

Coping with the pain of working out past the endurance point is a mental as well as physical exercise, he said.

From here, I progressed to gamebooks, which were like Choose Your Own Adventures but with the added complexities of throwing dice and keeping track of combat skill points and endurance points etc.

Their endurance points to the difficulties rebel units face as they contemplate assaults on the much stronger government garrisons in the city of Idlib proper, including the imbalances in the two sides' weapons, which pit rebels with shoulder-fired arms, light mortars and workshop-grade rockets against government units equipped with the tools of an armored brigade.

The non-Olympic endurance events – points race, scratch, madison – are not normally a priority for GB cycling but at the 2012 world championships in Melbourne, as part of the run-in to the London Games, they decided to target them as well as the Olympic events to put on a show of strength and mark psychological points on the home turf of their key opponents, the Australians.

Unless you are a triathlete you don't need to push your endurance to the point of joint damage (unless it feeds your soul).

"Almost beyond endurance" was once the point of Greek tragedy; Aristotle pointed to catharsis as the defining experience of art.

But they tested will, discipline and endurance, sometimes to the point of real danger.

I remember both the Hare and Stoppard marathons ending with audience and cast applauding each other, a gesture that acknowledged the physical and mental endurance that are the point and pleasure of such clock-buster productions.

But, though we were in misery over what was happening, there was not one of us, gasping for breath and choking on rain, who wasn't somehow secretly proud that the Colonel's inspired whim was testing our endurance to the breaking point.

They cannot justify holding the country to ransom.Far from being "honest folk" driven beyond the point of endurance by an unreasonable government, the people blocking Britain's refineries have come across as selfish and mean-spirited, willing to inflict great inconvenience and maybe worse on their fellow citizens.

Even though 48 hours non-stop swimming is always a test of endurance and focus, the point here is community spirit and important fund-raising for people in need.