NT We are at the dawn of a new age, the age of electricity.

A return to the Orient and to Islam?

Indeed, the US is on the cusp of energy self sufficiency.

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

In Tunisia and Egypt, they have demonstrated their resolve by overturning regimes which many in the West saw as guarantors of stability.

Among senior aides to Republican challenger Mitt Romney, a belief developed that he was on the cusp of victory.

The world is on the cusp of the most profound shift in global power and influence in a century.

For many years at the cusp of the new century, India s richest man (the information technology czar Azim Premji) was a Muslim.

The fact is, the BP oil spill is on the cusp of becoming a political game changer of historic proportions.

We are entering a post American world the world beyond America s brief moment of global domination.

This Aleppo is also on the threshold of a question Are the liberated areas really liberated, given the existence of those who are forcing the city to look only like them? We were forced to lose parts of ourselves constantly, with every friend we have left on the other side.

Thus, as the war in Europe was drawing to a close in the early summer of 1918, the French remained hard pressed in Morocco.

The Afghan people and Government are now heading towards yet another major chapter in the history of their country, namely the post Bonn process.

Indeed, on Europe s doorstep, the show trial and imprisonment of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is jeopardizing her country s international economic standing.

In October the US was on the cusp of the most significant turning point for inflation in the last 20 years.

Such a position put Keats at the forefront of the Romantic movement, and even at the cusp of modernism, according to some commentators.

Not only has Japan been ahead for some time, South Korea has gone into third place, and China is just about to overtake Germany.

Resolved, at the beginning of a new century and millennium, to take all measures within its power to secure a democratic and equitable international order,

Optimists repeat the refrain that this year is different after a prolonged period of painful deleveraging, the global economy supposedly is on the cusp of stronger growth.

Many European lawmakers are worried by the prospect of a nuclear armed Iran on Europe s doorstep, and are not convinced by the regime s claim that it seeks only nuclear energy.

In the final weeks of Communist rule, Mazowiecki helped to establish a model for negotiated political transition that still informs, inspires, and guides other societies on the cusp of change.

NEW DELHI Will mission creep in the West s intervention in Libya end up creating, inadvertently, a jihadist citadel at Europe s southern doorstep?

Currently, the eurozone is on the threshold of a banking union, with a fiscal union to follow. But, even with only a banking union, the pressure toward political union will grow.

The IMF s radar started blinking only in April 2007, virtually when the problem was already hitting its windshield, but still with little sense of urgency.

It was us rebels, who, in a split second, became wanted by two states, appealing to other countries to show some interest in a future we are sure will be a crime a crime not just for us as a nation, but a crime that will impact the whole of humanity.

Instead, NATO expanded to Russia s doorstep, the European Union barred its doors, and membership in the World Trade Organization seemed out of reach.

We are entering a new historical cycle, in which there will be proportionally fewer Westerners, more Africans and Middle Easterners, and with greater relevance economically and strategically many more Asians.

On the issue of Iran s nuclear ambitions, the Iranian government s equivocal position also is a source of growing concern. Many European lawmakers are worried by the prospect of a nuclear armed Iran on Europe s doorstep, and are not convinced by the regime s claim that it seeks only nuclear energy.

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

So, in the opening days of 2009, a visionary president stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol and said, We cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass, that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve, that, as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself.

In the blink of an eye he left my mother, alone and with two girls to take care of. My sister Leila was about to start a family, while I was difficult, always independent and argumentative about everything. I would be expelled from school for not assenting to the teacher's requests, or for writing an essay about how violent our school was.