Sentence examples for point of scrapping from inspiring English sources

Brian Pritchard from Edenfield, Lancashire: I suppose all the companies will increase prices now in a similar way, so what is the point of scrapping around to save perhaps a few pence if you are lucky?

That could give them the option, at some point in the future, of scrapping the agreement and breaking out to a nuclear-weapons capability much faster.But perhaps the biggest obstacle to a deal is an issue that has received very little attention so far.

They point out the possibility of scrapping the department is often discussed before major financial statements, and officials there have used voluntary redundancies to cut costs.

"It's a case of scrapping for every point we can get.

Both Mr. Mills and Mr. Levy agreed that the idea of scrapping many of the categories of specialized financing in the formula was a good starting point.

Republicans argue that the logic of Citizens United points toward scrapping the ban on direct corporate giving.

There have been reports out of Brussels that the FTT will be delayed, watered down to the point of irrelevance, or scrapped altogether.

But the drawing of parallels doesn't in itself make a novel, and once the reader gets the point (scraps of handwriting in Lazarus's pocket mistaken for coded terror instructions, and so on), the question arises of what else to do with the story.

"At that point, we scrapped the plan.

Guards pointed to scraps of pita bread and peanut butter in trash bags as evidence that the hunger strike wasn't real.

Even if a point system is scrapped in favor of something less reminiscent of quotas and more constitutional in the court's eyes, some admissions officers expect that their minority representation will decrease, perhaps slightly, perhaps more.