Sentence examples for point of cracking from inspiring English sources
"I was on the point of cracking, I couldn't handle the constant changes of speed that Evans and Leipheimer were making.
Councilwoman Margarita Lopéz, who represents the Lower East Side, has seen many such trees grow to the point of cracking their concrete confinements, and she knows better than to blame them for the damage.
The 23-year-old from Bury was struggling, he did not have the look of a man on a good day, he might be on the point of cracking.
The student asked him: "'What should I do to make it easier?'" And Dr. Nass, his voice rising to the point of cracking and breaking into a laugh, said he told her: "You ought to try doing it more often!" Stanford News Service said that Dr. Nass collapsed during a hike on Saturday.
The mayor has made a point of cracking down on so-called "animal houses," rentals where residents violate town ordinances, and has called attention to such behavior in a widely read newsletter, Belmar Summer Rental News, which was distributed in print and made available online through the town's Web site, www.belmar.com.
Frank Robinson, baseball's vice president for on-field operations, has made a point of cracking down on violent acts on the field this season, and just last Monday issued a five-game suspension to Atlanta Manager Bobby Cox for shoving an umpire.
The discovery that salt would lower the freezing point of cracked ice led to the first practical method of making ice cream.
The results show that the strength parameters (stress of dilatancy onset and uniaxial compressive strength) and deformation parameters (axial strain and circumferential strain at dilatancy onset and peak point) of cracked rock specimen decrease with the increase of the number of pre-existing fissures, and the relations which can use the negative exponential function to fit.
The point of crack initiation was taken when the crack became visible on the surface in the captured images.
A possible weak point in the present study is the identification of the point of crack initiation, which is the point during the shearing where all comparisons are made.
When element fracture occurred, the stress at the initial point of crack quickly dropped to 0. The location of fracture starting point deviated from midspan by about 3 5 mm.
