Sentence examples for on the point of giving way from inspiring English sources

By May 1984,when Ian (later Sir Ian) MacGregor, the National Coal Board chairman, appeared to be on the point of giving way, Gregson warned Thatcher: "the Government has too much at stake to allow the NCB a completely free hand".

At one point during this conflict, both the MacLeods of Harris and Dunvegan, and the MacLeods of Lewis, are on the verge of giving way to the invading MacDonalds.

Both pain and feeling of giving way will be scored on five-point Likert scale for a series of questions.

Both pain and feeling of giving way will be scored on five-point Likert scale for a series of questions, e.g. do you feel pain when being active, do you feel pain when getting out of bed in the morning, do you feel your ankle giving way when walking across the street, etc.

Pour grains of sand on top of one another and they organize into a cone mountain, but at a certain point the system gives way.

At the end of the 15th century, pointed toes gave way to rounded.

The phenomena that gave rise to the millions of cars on our roads the freedom of being in control of one's destination and the pleasure and the excitement of driving have given way to the desire to go from point A to point B undistracted by the operation of a vehicle.

Mr. Netanyahu already has conceded the last point and may give way on others; he is facing harsh domestic criticism.

Driving the country roads, it is possible to see in the plowed fields on either side the exact point where the red clay of the Piedmont gives way to the sandy brown soil of the coastal plain.

At the film's climax, members of the Ku Klux Klan thunder forth on horses to save a Southern town from black rule and rescue a captive white woman, at which point Wagner gives way to the strains of "Dixie".

At which point, Lila gives way to unappeasable grief.