Sentence examples for on the point of overtaking from inspiring English sources

China is on the point of overtaking the US as the world's biggest economy.

This was the assertion that (based on research by Newzoo and now supported by DigiCapital) because mobile gaming is on the verge of overtaking console gaming in terms of revenue it represents a cultural tipping point.

The Dow hit a new all-time high on Thursday, repeated the feat on Friday, and is now within 100 points of overtaking another millennium level, the 14,000 mark.

Thanks to the fracking boom, America is on the verge of overtaking Russia as the world's largest producer of oil and gas, as The Wall Street Journal pointed out a few days ago.

China is on the verge of overtaking both America and the EU in the quantity of its scientists.

Sanders is focused on the nearly impossible task of overtaking Clinton between now and the summer convention.

Sheffield United, in third place, eight points behind with five games in hand, were the only other team with a chance of overtaking them for the divisional title.

The rise of the centrist François Bayrou, who at one point almost overtook the Socialist Ségolène Royal, has muddied the electoral arithmetic.

Djokovic kept up his slim hopes of overtaking Nadal by winning the Paris Masters on Sunday.

At one point we were overtaken by a man on a motorbike with two bamboo baskets of piglets, their pink flesh bulging out through the weave.

Events on the ground are fast overtaking slow moving diplomacy.