In both Cagan's model and the neo-classical models, a tipping point occurs when the increase in money supply or the drop in the monetary base makes it impossible for a government to improve its financial position.

This " excessive democracy ," Madison grew to believe, was the cause of a larger social decay which he and others ( such as Washington ) believed had resumed after the revolution and was nearing a tipping point.

In his most recent book, " The Vanishing Face of Gaia ", he rejects scientific modelling that disagrees with the scientific findings that sea levels are rising faster, and Arctic ice is melting faster, than the models predict and he suggests that we may already be beyond the tipping point of terrestrial climate into a permanently hot state.

In this model, a tipping point is eventually reached at which the network effects of the challenger dominate those of the former incumbent, and the incumbent is forced into an accelerating decline, whilst the challenger takes over the incumbent's former position.

* Gradual climate change, sea-level fluctuations or a pulse of oceanic acidification during the late Triassic reached a tipping point.

The overhead for custom design is now reaching a tipping point, with many design houses opting to switch to electronic design automation ( EDA ) tools to automate their design process.

Scientists at the Brazilian National Institute of Amazonian Research argue in the article that this drought response, coupled with the effects of deforestation on regional climate, are pushing the rainforest towards a " tipping point " where it would irreversibly start to die.

At the tipping point where the oceans became permanently oxygenated, small variations in oxygen production produced pulses of free oxygen in the surface waters, alternating with pulses of iron oxide deposition.

According to the UN State of the World Population 2007 report, sometime in the middle of 2007, the majority of people worldwide will be living in towns or cities, for the first time in history ; this is referred to as the arrival of the " Urban Millennium " or the ' tipping point '.

The tipping point, however, was the runaway success of Walter A. Sheaffer's lever-filler, introduced in 1912, paralleled by Parker's roughly contemporary button-filler.

This, however, is not a point of concern in pens with modern, strong tipping material, as these pens take many years to develop any significant wear.

Dories exhibit high ultimate stability, tipping to a point and then stiffening up significantly and resisting further rolling tendencies.

Although a number of events took place to effect policy change, the tipping point would be the May 5, 1916 raid at Glenn Spring.

The tipping point of their relationship was the trial of Romanus, an Italian senator, who was a patricius and was supported by Ricimer, whom Anthemius accused of treachery and condemned to death in 470.

The hydrostatic force and tipping moment on the dam about some point can be computed from the total force and center of pressure location relative to the point of interest.

The main obstacles seem to be smaller fleet sizes and the extra costs of a hybrid system are yet compensated for by fuel savings, but with the price of oil set to continue on its upward trend, the tipping point may be reached by the end of 2015.

Having found it impossible to drain the bog at Chat Moss, Stephenson began constructing a large number of wooden and heather hurdles, which were sunk into the bog using stones and earth until they could provide a solid foundation — it was reported that at one point tipping went on solidly for weeks until such a foundation had been created.

The National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers ( NACODS ) nearly went on strike in September ; this was one point where the balance seemed to be tipping in favour of the miners, but Scargill's subsequent contempt of court orders caused the NUM to be fined and lost it wider support in the trade union movement.

In the UK, the Farm Animal Welfare Council stated " The accepted procedure is to remove not more than one third of the upper and lower beaks or not more than one third of the upper beak only " but then went on to recommend " Where beak trimming is carried out, it should, wherever possible, be restricted to beak tipping ; that is the blunting of the beak to remove the sharp point which can be the cause of the most severe damage to other birds.

In these applications, the expected load multiplied by the distance that load will be spaced from the central support ( called the " tipping point ") must be equal to the counterweight's mass times its distance from the tipping point in order to prevent over-balancing either side.

The name " Dugway " comes from a technique to dig a trench along a hillside to keep a wagon from tipping.

" The word " tipping point " comes from the moment in an epidemic when the virus reaches critical mass and begins to spread at a much higher rate.

Interestingly, we find this discomfort is reduced when the curve is banked, tipping the car inward toward the center of the curve.

Taking off or tipping one's hat on meeting a social superior or a lady, or when greeting an acquaintance, was a normal polite civilian gesture from the 17th century until the 1960s.

In many countries, gestures such as tipping one's hat when passing another on the street can be considered appropriate civilian salutes.

Players contribute a chip of lowest value towards the kitty when they win a pot, and it pays for expenses other than bets such as " rent " ( formally known as time fees ), tipping the dealer when he leaves, buying fresh decks of cards ( some public cardrooms include this cost in the " rake " or other fees, while others charge for decks ), and similar costs.

Cirith Ungol was based on Tolkien's design, but when Richard Taylor felt it was " boring ", it was redesigned with more tipping angles.

In a 1931 book he linked the post-1919 rise of women's movements that encouraged equality of the sexes with satanic influence, and claimed the custom of men tipping their hats to women or standing when a woman approached was a scheme of the devil to turn men from God and indicated an effeminate streak in men who practiced the custom.

On August 9, 1979, the Queen of Alberni was transiting through Active Pass when it ran aground on Galiano Island, tipping fifteen degrees to starboard.

In Germany and other Western countries, where minimum wages exist for servers and where tipping is not culturally entrenched, most tips take the form of rounding up to the nearest whole or half denomination of currency when the server is cashing a party out at their table.

The stability of a mobile construction crane can be jeopardized when outriggers sink into soft soil, which can result in the crane tipping over.

The design proved unsatisfactory for numerous reasons, including a lethally-high silhouette, a sluggish and barely-functional manual turret traverse, a slow reload rate, and a high center of gravity which risked tipping the vehicle over when attempting to surmount even small obstacles.

The tipping point for coming to this decision was reached when he witnessed a middle aged, middle class woman living in her station wagon, having lost her identity documents and having no access to any social service payments.

On February 9, 2008, Antropov set a new career high in goals with 19 when he scored in overtime to give the Leafs a 3 – 2 win, tipping in an Anton Strålman slapshot — he finished the season with 26 goals.

Horizontal stabilizers are deployed to prevent the vehicle from tipping laterally when the arm is extended.

Cholly and his right-hand-delinquent Eddy suspect Scotty of tipping off the police, and the whole gang kidnaps Scotty the next day and force him to gulp down an entire bottle of Scotch when he won't admit to being the informant.

An examiner reveals the identity of the Senior Wrangler ' unofficially ' by tipping his hat when reading out the person's name, but other rankings are communicated to each student privately.

The constitutional crisis reached a tipping point on September 21, 1993, when President Boris Yeltsin purported to dissolve the country's legislature ( the Congress of People's Deputies and its Supreme Soviet ), although the president did not have the power to dissolve the parliament according to the then-current constitution.

The flank cinch was added in order to keep the saddle from tipping in the back when a lasso was tied or dallied to the saddle horn.

Things hit the tipping point for the Resistance, when Osborn orchestrates a siege on Asgard by creating an incident similar to Stamford.

For the subway car's final tipping scene, the actors were harnessed into a life-sized subway car which was ripped to tip over when read.

Polish decisions regarding further action in the east were taken at the beginning of April, when Józef Piłsudski determined that Polish forces must maintain the initiative on the eastern front but should avoid tipping the balance of Russian Civil war in any direction.

# Lower risk of tipping over on slopes when dumping.