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.

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.

If the police use non excessive force for a lawful purpose, then even the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering simply does not reach the threshold of CIDT.

None of the restrictions placed on the author's access to legal documents and lawyers is said to reach the threshold required for treatment in violation of article 10, paragraph 1.

So we've crossed a fourth threshold of complexity.

Conflicts involving lower intensity violence that do not reach the threshold of an armed conflict are implicitly distinguished from noninternational armed conflicts to which the provisions of that article are applicable.

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

You hit the viability threshold.

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

And we've crossed our first 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

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.

Outside this group, export strategies relied on low (and in some cases falling) wages or currency depreciation rather than strong productivity growth, and while this stimulated recoveries in some countries, few were able to reach a threshold level of exports consistent with a vibrant industrialization path (UNCTAD, 2003 99 102).

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.

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

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.

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

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

The Israeli government recently suggested that Iran would reach the nuclear threshold within nine months, and Iran could become a major issue in the long run up to the US presidential election in November 2012. And it is difficult to imagine that Israel s current government will stand by idly while Iran becomes a nuclear power (or a nuclear quasi power).

She couldn't reach me. Now she says she doesn't want to reach me because I'm a godless person.

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

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

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.

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

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.

We need to reach a target inside the brain.

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.