So, the question is, are the bottom billion above or below that threshold?

So, there's a threshold level above which you go up in the long term, and below which you go down.

In the individual tutoring instruction, 98 percent of the students are going to be above that threshold.

Fifth, the amount of the low per capita income adjustment should continue to be distributed only among Member States above the threshold.

Now, that's also wrong, because traffic happens to be a nonlinear phenomenon, meaning that once you reach above a certain capacity threshold then congestion starts to increase really, really rapidly.

So we've crossed a fourth threshold of complexity.

Conventional wisdom held that everything was safe up to a point, a threshold.

You hit the viability threshold.

(c) Photo neutron interrogation photo induced neutron emission occurs when the energy of an incoming photon (X ray or gamma ray) is above a certain threshold and atoms of low atomic weight undergo photonuclear reactions that emit neutrons.

And I believe we count as a threshold in this great story.

And we've crossed our first threshold.

The resource curse is entirely confined to countries below a threshold of governance.

The objective is a nationwide structure of recognisable and low threshold reporting centres.

The new rules also lower the financial disclosure threshold levels considerably the threshold for assets and income from non United Nations sources is lowered from 25,000 to 10,000 and the threshold for gifts from 10,000 to 250.

There could be non linearities, threshold effects.

No scientist could predict that in 2007, suddenly, what could be crossing a threshold.

Vulnerability exists at levels far above the World Bank s 1.25 day poverty threshold, especially given rising job insecurity and inadequate social protection worldwide. To address global poverty effectively, global leaders must take a more comprehensive approach that focuses on reducing citizens vulnerability.

And at each threshold, the going gets tougher.

And of course, it reaches the viability threshold.

In fact, there's a fence quite upstream of this threshold, beyond which you are in a danger zone.

Students who receive a loan are not required to make repayments until their income exceeds a minimum threshold.

Uganda is estimated to receive 1.95 billion in nominal debt service relief.12 However, the net present value of its debt to exports ratio was estimated to reach 258 per cent by the end of 2003, a level significantly above the HIPC sustainable threshold.14

Mexico has profound security problems in some regions, but it is also a country that just might be on the threshold of a huge political and economic transformation. Indeed, for a couple of years now, Mexico s GDP growth rates have been near the top of the OECD, and recently above Brazil s.

Purchase quota is a fixed threshold many cities would adopt when implementing real estate control measures.

In their widely cited paper Growth in a Time of Debt, Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart argue that, when government debt exceeds 90 of GDP, countries suffer slower economic growth. Many Western countries national debt is now dangerously near, and in some cases above, this critical threshold.

Some formations are almost at the threshold of human visibility.

Karen Hulme, War Torn Environment Interpreting the Legal Threshold (2004).

He had a body very similar to our own, and he was on the threshold of becoming human.

In fact, they appeared at a necessary but insufficient threshold for the establishment of an appropriate analytical model.

Up to a threshold of around 100 kwh per capita per day, energy consumption and human development indicators go hand in hand. At current prices, between 10 and 20 per person per day would be needed to reach that threshold.

The confinement center without threshold quality certification would promote the quality.

We refer in big history to these moments as threshold moments.

Despite this general applicability of international humanitarian law during armed conflict, even this law has a threshold of applicability.

Noting that a temperature rise of two degrees Celsius above pre industrial levels was the threshold for dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system, he urged the Parties to the Convention and to the Kyoto Protocol to initiate a process in Montreal that would achieve equitable cuts in greenhouse gas emissions in the near future.

A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord.

A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord.

Then came he to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up its steps and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed broad and the other threshold, one reed broad.

Then came he to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up its steps and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed broad and the other threshold, one reed broad.

Set it up to around A, above A, above A. There's an A, more or less.

Walking upright, we are told, is the threshold of what made us human.

To understand what that means, let's look at the lecture based classroom, and let's pick the median performance as a threshold.

It was contended that such a threshold was unnecessary and was not in line with the provisions of several liability regimes.

In this connection, it was stated that the commentary did not make a convincing case for the retention of the threshold.

Nevertheless, we are now on the threshold of the functioning of the new structure.

In that report, the claims were reported as having met the threshold eligibility requirement.