Meaning of point of no return in English
(Definition of point of no return from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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Examples of point of no return
point of no return
People must recognize that it is not easy to decide when this point of no return has arrived (2;4).
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A point of no return could easily be left far behind before it was realized what had happened.
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It proved that decay of the old regime had reached the point of no return, and that its days in power were numbered.
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In search of the point of no return : the control of response processes.
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Death is the point of no return.
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Some even say that we have already gone past the point of no return.
The point of no return has been reached.
Are we also willing to subject our climate to the point of no return?
Their message is clear: their political systems have reached a point of no return, and change must come now.
The warnings have been sounded and now we really are at the point of no return in so many aspects of fishing.
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Secondly, will he say whether in this whole matter there comes a point of no return?
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What concerns me is that by waiting until then, we may pass the point of no return.
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That, to my mind, is the point of no return.
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We in this country may already have passed the point of no return.
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They must never put it to us that a point of no return has been passed.
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