There was no given threshold below which debt was innocuous and above which it was dangerous.

Many Western countries national debt is now dangerously near, and in some cases above, this critical 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.

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.

Instead, Spain should incur the first losses, and the eurozone s financial rescue fund, the European Stability Mechanism, should shoulder an increasing amount of the risk above a certain threshold (say, 5 10 of GDP).

The view that Li will tolerate slower growth only above a particular threshold is based on the belief that GDP growth below 8 would hurt economic development more than it helped, and lead to social instability.

Gaza has passed the unlivability threshold.

Yet the threshold is not there.

On December 12, 2007, the MCC Board selected Malawi for a compact and Mauritania for a threshold agreement, as well as allowing Albania, Paraguay, and Zambia to submit a first ever second stage threshold agreement.

(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.

Given the importance of threshold effects, how can a system s resilience be maintained?

Malawi qualified for a full compact in 2007, while Mauritania became threshold eligible.

Jordan received a Threshold program aimed at democracy and trade totaling 25 million.

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.

Similarly, a higher electoral threshold for winning seats should counter vote buying by candidates.

Currently, the eurozone is on the threshold of a banking union, with a fiscal union to follow.

He undermined the minimum of threshold in our country.

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

The threshold, as a fraction of the maximum luminosity value, needed to apply the difference amount.

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 unemployment threshold, linked to forward guidance, can be seen as a backdoor way of adding a second objective.

BEIJING China s per capita income, at 3,800, has now surpassed the threshold for a middle income country.

Avoiding a massive withdrawal of foreign capital therefore implied taxing all deposits below the 100,000 ( 130,000) threshold.

India is at the threshold of an era of unprecedented growth.

Should that happen, we would be at the threshold of a new world some would say a heaven on earth.

Blogger Andrew Trench recently presented a theory on the threshold of when Internet penetration starts to matter, writing

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

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

An adversary can be defined as a threshold structure meaning that it can corrupt or simply read the memory of a number of participants up to some threshold, or be defined as a more complex structure, where it can affect certain predefined subsets of participants, modeling different possible collusions.

Yemen was previously eligible for a threshold agreement, but was suspended after their indicators fell too low to qualify.

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

We are now on the threshold of another the age of green economics.

In 1905, her first collection of poems, named The Golden Threshold was published.

In business, the debt income ratio is a well known threshold, one that can move in step with exchange rates.

Here, we should like to remind the Council that we are a State on the threshold of development and progress.

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.

On the contrary, accumulating reserves beyond a certain threshold carries a high opportunity cost and suggests the need to let the currency appreciate.

Very few countries in Africa have posted growth rates consistent with the MDG s 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.