cross the Rubicon

Example Sentences

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The Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, an association of 42,118 U.S. congregations, said Hispanic churches “are about to cross the Rubicon into thriving.”

From Washington Times

That’s a bit like writing a memo for Julius Caesar that concluded, without qualification, that “the fact is that the Roman Constitution assigns this power to you, Caesar, as the ultimate arbiter about whether to cross the Rubicon.”

From Slate

In the last two weeks of December, they pushed Trump in their protests and on social media to “Cross the Rubicon.”

From Seattle Times

From what we have learned since, some of Trump's supporters were even imploring him to "cross the Rubicon," a reference to Julius Caesar's initiation of the civil war that eventually transformed Rome into a dictatorial empire, expressing a longing to smash American systems and eviscerate the republic.

From Salon

In a way, they did cross the Rubicon, so to speak, and started describing him as a liar, and also tried to document what he was really up to.

From Salon