Sentence examples for point of placing from inspiring English sources

Concrete can be affected by freeze/thaw damage from the point of placing to being fully cured.

The woman who takes exception to the word "affluent" makes a point of placing herself at the "very, very bottom" of the one per cent.

In China, whole families will make a point of placing bets around the lunar new year so that they know what fortune has in store for them.

What then is the point of placing an image death before the unjust, as if in punishment, if later images demonstrate the unsettling and incontrovertible fact that death has little to do with justice?

Within days the "guards" had become swaggering and sadistic, to the point of placing bags over the prisoners' heads, forcing them to strip naked and encouraging them to perform sexual acts.

"Why take matters to the point of placing under threat the entire internationally agreed structure of nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation, including its core, the 1972 ABM Treaty?" said a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Alexander Yakovenko, in a statement.

From the vantage point of places like these, America long represented something different: "What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest," Andy Warhol once observed.

The victory moved the Flyers within two points of fourth-place Pittsburgh in the Eastern Conference.

Ottawa closed to within 4 points of first-place Toronto in the Northeast Division.

By beating the Islanders (27-32-11), the Devils moved within 6 points of eighth place in the Eastern Conference.

Nashville, which has never made the playoffs, moved within two points of eighth-place Edmonton in the Western Conference.