Sentence examples for point of burning from inspiring English sources

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I was on the point of burning it".

"Jack had a very short temper and made a point of burning bridges," Mr. Welling said.

The Spanish made a point of burning it in 1625, after a ten-month siege led by the brilliant Genoese aristocrat Ambrogio Spinola.

I simply do not see the point of burning euros on gasoline, especially when the far higher torque of a turbodiesel can be quite entertaining.

It's there in the rickety wooden house on the hill in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, in the overripe, widescreen, crumbling crypts and tottering houses of Roger Corman's 1960s Edgar Allan Poe films, where Vincent Price's domain is forever on the point of burning down or tumbling into the lake.

Haiti's social movements took the matter seriously -- to the point of burning Monsanto seeds at a protest that brought four peasant movements together, making headlines around the world.

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To stress their point, they built barriers of burning tyres and pelted riot police with stones.

At one point, Johnny is accused of burning down a building by having "set it on fire with his mind, like in that book Carrie"; and, in the Dark Tower VII, a robot butler called Nigel is reading The Dead Zone.

The authors bring up an excellent and also contentious point regarding the semantics of burning mouth syndrome [1, 2].

"World experts nowadays are losing their interest in the traditional set of burning points," he said.

Also Järvinen et al. pointed out the presence of burning mouth, aphthoid lesions and hoarseness in patients with disorders of the upper digestive tract.

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