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A Grexit could prove to be the last straw, and would surely lead to a tightening in domestic monetary conditions at a very precarious point in the economic cycle.
For the Kenyan authorities, it was the final straw after a series of abductions of Westerners by al-Shabaab; to stop the incursions, they launched what military leaders believed would be a quick campaign.
The Guardian Council's barring of over 2,000 mostly reformist candidates from participating in the parliamentary elections was the last straw.
Cottages with TV satellite antennas may be seen, but they will be surrounded by straw, mud, chopped wood and the aromatic stench of livestock.
The arrest in January 2012 of the chief judge of the supreme court, Abdulla Mohamed, on charges of corruption and malpractice was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
The episode reveals the arbitrary nature of EU budget setting, which puts the EU itself in a bad light – and could be the last straw for Britain’s EU membership.
If Pakistan’s history is any indicator, his decision to impose martial law may prove to be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel’s back.
Currency movements, however, were merely the straw that broke the camel's back.
Kept indoors all their lives, on bare concrete without straw for bedding – pigs love straw, but it costs money and makes the floors harder to keep clean – with nothing to do all day except for the short time they are eating, it is hard to see that longer existence brings them any benefits at all.
But the failure of the latest bilateral accord should be the last straw.
For many members of his manufacturing council and the Strategy and Policy Forum, it was the last straw.
But the final straw was America’s support for the recent interim agreement on Iran’s nuclear program.
In this sense, the hollowing out of Hong Kong’s autonomy in the shadow of COVID-19 could prove to be the proverbial straw that breaks the Chinese camel’s back.
One straw in the wind is the call by Jim O’Neill, a former Goldman Sachs economist who now heads the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), for public research and production of new antibiotics.
The back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, on the first weekend of August are widely being viewed as the straw that will break the back of the US gun lobby, particularly the National Rifle Association (NRA), which has long stood in the way of congressional passage of gun-control measures.
These measures were probably the proverbial last straw for many farmers, whose protests have become more vocal in recent years as threats to their livelihood have increased.
With eurozone business confidence already depressed as a result of Sino-American trade tensions, a chaotic Brexit would be the last straw.
For the US, the passage of the extradition law could well be the last straw.
'We came into Alexis's room to have a smoke,' she said in reply to Oblonsky's question whether he might smoke; and glancing at Levin, instead of asking him whether he smoked, she drew a tortoise-shell cigar-case nearer and took from it a straw cigarette.
He might sell straw to the peasants in a time of shortage, though he felt sorry for them; but an inn or a public-house, although it brought in a revenue, must be done away with.
Standing in the cool shade of the newly-thatched barn, with its wattle walls of hazel, which had not yet shed its scented leaves, pressed against the freshly stripped aspens of the roof-tree under the thatch, he looked now through the open doorway into which the dry and bitter chaff-dust rushed and whirled, at the grass round the threshing-floor lit up by the hot sunshine and at the fresh straw that had just been brought out of the barn, now at the bright-headed and white-breasted swallows that flew in chirping beneath the roof and, flapping their wings, paused in the light of the doorway, and now at the people who bustled about in the dark and dusty barn; and he thought strange thoughts:'Why is all this being done?' he wondered.
As soon as he had turned the corner of the road and saw those who were approaching he at once recognized Katavasov in a straw hat, waving his arms just as Tanya had represented.
It was Mouquette, who emerged in fright from a pile of straw in which she was sleeping.
It's a fine thing to come and do your dirty tricks in my straw."
Near him an old soldier, with tanned skin and stripes won in twenty campaigns, had grown pale when he saw his bayonet twisted like a straw.
The whole square of the mine had followed the buildings, the gigantic platforms, the footbridges with their rails, a complete train of trams, three wagons; without counting the wood supply, a forest of cut timber, gulped down like straw.
His meals were sent down to him, and he sometimes slept for a couple of hours on a truss of straw, rolled in a cloak.
This was the last straw, and it resulted in arousing public passions all over again.
That was the last straw.
A meal together, a walk in the evening on the highroad, a gesture of her hands over her hair, the sight of her straw hat hanging from the window-fastener, and many another thing in which Charles had never dreamed of pleasure, now made up the endless round of his happiness.
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