The article quoted the demographer William H. Frey twice misusing the term "tipping point" to mean milestone or "culmination" of a trend.
"The early achievement of this milestone marks the culmination of several years of hard work by our engineers and planners".
This milestone was the culmination of bipartisan Congressional leadership, brave men, women and children whose peaceful protests often received brutal responses, and determined activism from grassroots and national leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dorothy Height, and Whitney M. Young.
Navy leaders hailed the event as a milestone in aviation, the culmination of an eight-year, $1.4 billion program to test the feasibility of basing long-range drones on aircraft carriers.
This milestone will mark the culmination of 11 years of concept and development for MAVEN, setting the stage for the mission's science phase, which will investigate Mars as no other mission has.
As in previous studies [ 16, 18], whether an organisation had received (or not) an external quality award was used as a proxy for the degree of implementation of the EFQM model; the granting of an award being regarded as a milestone in the organisation, the culmination of previous efforts to deploy quality management based on this excellence model.
This action is a milestone in — although perhaps not the culmination of — the FDA's decades-long attempt to grapple with increasing scientific recognition that trans fat poses a serious health risk to consumers.
"This is the final major milestone of the construction phase and the culmination of more than two years' offshore construction work which began in March 2011 with the installation of the first foundation," said London Array project director Richard Rigg.
Their conclusions, in separate interviews, amount to a milestone in America's culture wars and the culmination of the brothers' own emotional and intellectual odyssey.
"The dispatch of poppies for the appeal is an important milestone in our calendar as it marks the culmination of a year of hard work.
"Obviously it's another milestone in the club's evolution, a great day and the culmination of a lot of hard work by a lot of people over the past 18 months since we came out administration," he told BBC South Today.
