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point of no return Definitie in het Nederlands

0 the stage at which it is no longer possible to stop what you are doing and when its effects cannot now be avoided or prevented: --
- Scientists fear that global warming has gone beyond the point of no return.
- Russia, he said, had reached the point of no return on the road to reform and had to go forward.
1 the stage in a process when it is too late to change what you are doing so that you must continue: --
- Once the contract is signed, we’ve reached the point of no return.
2 the stage at which it is no longer possible to stop what you are doing, and when its effects cannot now be avoided or prevented: --
- In business you know that you may be passing the point of no return when you cannot pay your bills as they fall due.

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They must never put it to us that a point of no return has been passed.
We in this country may already have passed the point of no return.
That, to my mind, is the point of no return.
What concerns me is that by waiting until then, we may pass the point of no return.
Secondly, will he say whether in this whole matter there comes a point of no return?
The warnings have been sounded and now we really are at the point of no return in so many aspects of fishing.
Their message is clear: their political systems have reached a point of no return, and change must come now.
Are we also willing to subject our climate to the point of no return?

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