Such a point is called a point of inflection.
Ultimately this point of inflection offers the chance to undo that earlier tip towards conflict.
"We may not be too far from a point of inflection," Fayyad said to me.
It is because an earlier such point of inflection over Iran, a decade ago, tipped toward conflict, into the "axis of evil" versus the western-backed "moderates".
Pate reckons the self-publish space is growing at as much as 30% per year with no point of inflection in sight.
The way you tell it is that we're at a point of inflection: that we're on the cusp of perhaps the greatest change for the human race ever?
Census 2011 is perhaps an indication that the country has reached a point of inflection"; and in the worst-affected areas, sex ratios are becoming less distorted.
As Kate Losse points out in her excellent primer, a notable point of inflection in the selfie's recent meteoric rise was the addition of a front-facing camera to the iPhone 4. A selfie doesn't even have to be of one's face; my colleague Emily Greenhouse described Anthony Weiner as "a distributor of below-the-waist selfies".
Jonathan Zittrain, an associate professor at Harvard Law School, said the significance of the deal between Sharman Networks and Tiscali is likely to be more a cultural one than a legal one, noting that "all hands to this conflict recognize we're at a cultural point of inflection".
As you walk down the path, first you're taller than the wall and then the wall is much taller than you, and then you come to the point of inflection and, regardless of which way you come, you then find your way back to the world.
While the proportion of groceries sold online is much smaller than other sectors, the vast size of the food market means it is a key avenue of growth for under-pressure mainline supermarkets.Stuart Rose, chairman of Ocado, told the Guardian that the online grocery market had reached the "point of inflection".
