Sentence examples for points of rupture from inspiring English sources

As I see it, there have been four points of rupture and can be briefly characterised as follows.

In this brief outline of the main points of rupture since the middle of the previous century, I am mainly concerned with stating the case for the presence, in fact, the persistence of continuity across those phases.

I think there will be more and more points of rupture in which people feel sufficiently frustrated with the status quo that they look to politics that are not circumscribed by the normal rules of politics, and want to build institutions themselves.

At first relations between them are strained almost to the point of rupture.

Generations of people, in Texas and Mexico, still remember the border as a line of continuity rather than a point of rupture.

We may very well have to wait for that point of rupture in order to imagine England as a nation.

"The old bargain has eroded so we are now at the point of rupture," Mr. St. Martin said.

Israel's isolation would deepen, and its relations with the rest of the world, the United States included, would be strained to the point of rupture.

Although some will take heart from the fact that Froome was unable to open decisive gaps uphill at Luchon and Arcalís, this does not mean that he or Team Sky are weaker than in previous years, merely that the race has not yet been tested to the point of rupture.

The red star indicates the starting point of rupture during the 2000 Western Tottori Earthquake.

Some major earthquakes, such as the 2011 magnitude-9 Tohoku quake in Japan, are preceded by large "slow-slip events," in which part of the fault moves quietly, without seismic notice, loading the fault to the point of rupture.