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

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

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

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.

You hit the viability threshold.

And we've crossed our first threshold.

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.

And at each threshold, the going gets tougher.

So we've crossed a fourth threshold of complexity.

And of course, it reaches 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.

Some formations are almost at the threshold of human visibility.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

About half of the Palestinian population, 18 million persons, lived below the poverty threshold.

Some delegations were opposed to the threshold of significant harm in draft principle 1.

The halving of the mortality rate has brought it below the official emergency threshold.

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.

As far as fissile material is concerned, stockpiles far exceed the threshold necessary for deterrence.

and I brought them into the house of Yahweh, into the room of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was by the room of the princes, which was above the room of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold.

and I brought them into the house of Yahweh, into the room of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was by the room of the princes, which was above the room of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold.

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.

Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad and the other threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad.

Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad and the other threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad.

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

Just to benchmark that threshold, it's about the governance level of Portugal in the mid 1980s.

During the reporting period, Timor Leste has made further advances towards the threshold of self sufficiency.

Where that threshold, by nature vague and variable, actually lay would be extremely difficult to determine.

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.

In addition to raising the threshold, the new tax rate schedule will be applied from October 1.