Their marriage has reached crisis point.
Relation between the two countries has reached crisis point.
Doubts concerning sovereign credit first reached a crisis point in Europe and they revolved around the euro.
In 1966 the situation - with arguments about cost and the interior design, and the Government withholding progress payments - reached crisis point and j? Rn Utzon resigned from the project.
But what had been impressive, even extraordinary, was that the handful of public frictions never reached crisis point, and were all dealt with within a climate of rather friendly negotiation.