Sentence examples for strained to breaking point from inspiring English sources

Family ties are strained to breaking point.

The friendship has been strained to breaking point.

When it does, human sympathies are strained to breaking point.

Strained to breaking point, it will not endure unless governments actively work to improve it.

This unsustainable situation is being strained to breaking point by the crisis that now enters Year Five.

I believe the great British public's heartstrings have been pretty much strained to breaking point with this year's slushy Christmas ads.

Traffic growth has strained airports to breaking point, and disgruntled air-traffic controllers have been disrupting flights off and on for the past six months.

Those parts of the iceberg that have already detached have begun to move rapidly seaward, widening the rift in recent days and leaving the remaining ice "strained near to breaking point," according to Adrian Luckman, a scientist monitoring Larsen C at Swansea University in Wales.

Since older people pay a mere $50 a month for health care from the social-security system, a new influx of retired people could strain budgets to breaking point.

Relations between the two women, already strained, had stretched to breaking point when Trierweiler tweeted her support for Royal's rival in the legislative elections of June 2012, just a month after Hollande became president.

But the police union fears that cuts may strain the force to breaking point.