get to the point

1. see to the point.

Example Sentences

So, how exactly did we get to the point where the UK is being compared to a dictatorship and, given how inflamed the conversation has become, what - if anything - would it take to turn down the heat?

From BBC

They’ve been screened at a number of points along the path of the immigration system to even get to the point where they have the basic eligibility to apply for naturalization now.

From Slate

But that takes a lot of time and trial and error to get to the point where I think the show looks as good as it does.

From Los Angeles Times

Over the last almost 60 years, successive Israeli governments and some wealthy sympathisers have invested vast amounts of money and energy to get to the point where around 700,000 Israeli Jews live in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

From BBC

But it was a repost on Instagram that cost her her job — in February 2021, she reposted a famously horrific image of a half-naked Jewish woman fleeing from a mob with a moronically simplistic message about divisive politics: “Most people today don’t realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews. How is that any different from hating someone for their political views?”

From Los Angeles Times

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