| In its war on the press, this hubristic administration may finally have crossed a bridge too far. |
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| Joyce had little support and an even poorer supply of ball and staging a one-man comeback was a bridge too far for him. |
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| However, Arnhem proved to be a bridge too far, immortalised in the film of the same name. |
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| Quite simply last Sunday was a bridge too far without these players on board. |
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| Community, whether caustic or politely consensual, has an odd knack of seeming a bridge too far. |
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| Many times, he told me, reformers rejected a compromise as a bridge too far. |
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| Threatening physical violence against the host is a bridge too far, it would seem. |
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| Club fought on valiantly in the second half, but the missing man was always going to prove a bridge too far. |
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| This could easily be a bridge too far for a team currently very much in transition. |
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| But making NATO the institution of choice for dealing with conflicts around the world is a bridge too far. |
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| Clearly, that will be a bridge too far for the Kiwi batsmen. |
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| That, I suspect, is a bridge too far for the foreseeable future. |
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| Concerning the transfer, as it became obvious very quickly that this was a bridge too far, we did not pursue this option any further. |
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| The agreement on a common position appears to be a bridge too far for them. |
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| Indeed, some may say we have gone a bridge too far, whilst others believe we could go further. |
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| In the mid-1980s, the vision of creating a genuine single market seemed a bridge too far. |
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| In our opinion, control is possible via notification, and a bureaucratic admission procedure is really a bridge too far. |
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| And yet it appears that such a basic requirement has become a bridge too far for OECD country-based and other G20 regulators. |
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| It is simply a bridge too far to make agreements at European level at this stage. |
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| However, the proposed congestion charging and mark-up are a bridge too far for the PPE-DE Group. |
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| Of course, for some, that one small step was a bridge too far. |
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| In my view this is, for the present, a bridge too far. |
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| After his collapse in the 2010 Tour de France, where an eighth overall victory turned out to be a bridge too far, Lance Armstrong's second life in cycling seemed to have come to an end. |
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| In the early 1990s, the very idea of inviting new members into NATO, yet at the same time remaining on good terms with Russia, seemed a bridge too far. |
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| This is a bridge too far for a variety of reasons: it pushes countries with a milder climate in terms of criminal law into the defensive and calls into question the fairness of the course of justice. |
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| Needless to say, I, like many MEPs, including Mr Cashman and Mrs Maij-Weggen, would have liked to see more disclosure on a number of scores in the proposal, but to many Member States, that appeared to be a bridge too far. |
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| And more recently, the bridge too far for me: Cutting the already-utterly-inadequate funding for the exposure of Canadian art and artists in other countries. |
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| This was simply a bridge too far for our former budget model. |
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| This would be a bridge too far which the EU cannot cross. |
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| Switch It On is like George Michael caught in a firestorm of rasping harmonica and bizarre Bo Diddley beat, and is definitely a bridge too far. |
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| From the opposite end of the spectrum, reintegration as an option can also be a bridge too far for the people excombatants have hurt or bereaved, and seen as a reward for violent behaviour. |
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| I was reminded of the part in A Bridge Too Far when the only supply drop the encircled Allied troops actually manage to retrieve contains nothing but burgundy berets. |
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