But it is virtually certain that China will fall short of this threshold in 2009.

It could do so by buying Italian and Spanish bonds in the secondary market with the pre announced intention of keeping their sovereign interest rates below a certain threshold for a certain time.

To maximize the number of units built, housing ministries make sure that projects meet minimum specifications below a certain per unit cost threshold.

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

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.

They receive input from thousands of upstream partners and compute their own electrical outputs, which then, if they pass a certain threshold, will go to thousands of downstream partners.

The 164 Customs Administrations, which make up the Membership of WCO, will be invited to accede to the Framework, a process that will involve them applying certain threshold standards.

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.

Gaza has passed the unlivability threshold.

Yet the threshold is not there.

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).

In particular, the IMF now recognizes that capital account liberalization requires countries to reach a certain threshold with respect to financial and governance institutions, and that many emerging market and developing countries have not.

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.

He undermined the minimum of threshold in our country.

(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.

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

For example, in defining predicate offences of money laundering, some States enumerate them in a list attached to a piece of legislation, whereas some States take a so called threshold approach, defining the predicate offences as crimes punishable in a certain way.

For example, an overcurrent relay might initiate a trip if the current on any phase exceeds a certain threshold whereas a set of differential relays might initiate a trip if the sum of currents between them indicates there may be current leaking to earth.

A thermostat attached to the heating element turns off the heating element as needed to prevent overheating the water in the metal tube (overheating would produce only steam in the supply hose), then turns back on when the water cools below a certain threshold.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

This requires only that countries achieve the threshold conditions of adequate financial and institutional development.

Even well disciplined Germany is expected to close in on the 90 threshold, at 88.5 .

Any party that received more than 75 of the threshold will have its deposit refunded.

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

Yet the Arab peoples have finally experienced genuine empowerment, and have crossed the threshold of fear.

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

Because the 90 threshold had become political fodder, its subsequent demolition also gained broader political meaning.

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

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.

Any candidate receiving more than one quarter of the threshold on personal preference votes (the 'preference threshold' or voorkeursdrempel , 0.1675 of the total number of valid votes), is considered elected in their own right, leapfrogging candidates higher on the list.