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

The number of people living below the threshold of absolute poverty had increased, and environmental degradation was reaching alarming levels.

The acute poverty indicator, which takes into consideration not only the gap between the poor and the poverty threshold but also the inequality among those living below the poverty line, was 8.9 per cent in 2004.

The Secretary General's report had shown that half the people currently living in poverty were of working age and that a majority of those who did work in developing countries lived below the two dollar a day poverty 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.

Despite their shortcomings, income measures are useful in gaining a better understanding of the extent of poverty and vulnerability worldwide. But the World Bank s poverty line of 1.25 per day (in purchasing power parity terms), which is used in measuring progress toward the MDGs poverty reduction target, is not the only relevant threshold.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Now the viability threshold is reached, and the frequency distribution has dramatically changed and, in fact, stabilizes.

In that report, the three claimants in question were reported as having met the threshold eligibility requirement.

The Government increased this threshold from AUS 25,348 in 2003 2004 to AUS 36,184 in 2005 2006.

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

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