He is concerned that America seems to have a lower threshold for going to war than other members of the Security Council.
This gives rise to the worry that the distinction between conventional and nuclear warfare would be blurred, leading to a lower threshold for a nuclear attack, and thus to the undermining of the global non-proliferation regime.
As that effort completes and the technology improves, they will likely lower that threshold.
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Exactly how far owners try to lower the threshold will determine whether there's really a major confrontation, Rishe thinks.
The conference could decide to lower this threshold, making majorities easier to find.
Another way is for the police to prosecute through the Proceeds of Crime Act which I'm told has a much lower proof threshold.
Even so, if ministers want to see more competition they may have to do more than lower the threshold and rely on the Competition Act.
This could see universities struggling to fill courses - and raises the prospect of greater choice and a lower results threshold for students seeking university places.
Revised standards to be effective from April drastically lower the threshold for requiring a raft of safety measures at the planting stage to 100 becquerels per kilogram.
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The House bill would provide incentives, in the form of highway safety funding, to states that lower the threshold and take other steps to encourage safety and driver sobriety.
It is hard to see how Mr Erdogan's lot can be kept out of power in the longer run (a general election is due by April 2004 at the latest) unless parliament passed a bill to lower the threshold to let other parties in.
In the seventies and eighties, the annual average rose to about a dozen. (Frustration with this increase led the Senate, in 1975, to lower the threshold for cloture to sixty votes.) In the nineties and early aughts, the average went up to twenty-five or thirty a year, as both parties escalated their use of the filibuster when they found themselves in the minority.
Well, the magical moisture-absorbing material may get even better, as the plan is to increase the amount of water the material can hold and lower the temperature threshold for its release.
If your adjusted gross income next year is lower than the threshold for the additional Medicare tax levels, your capital gains rate for 2013 might only be 20% (and it could even remain at 15%, depending on how the new rules end up after negotiations).
The lower we make the threshold for becoming a world power, the more tempting it becomes.
The lower alcohol-content threshold was one of nearly 20 recommendations aimed at reducing drunken driving made by the board, including that states adopt measures to ensure more widespread use of use of ignition devices.
The evidentiary threshold is much lower.
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The spokesman said the increase was "in keeping with general practice", adding that "some other authorities set the threshold for levying the charge much lower".
That leaves challengers with two choices: offer a competitive product at a lower price point or shoot below Apple's threshold.
The Court began by clearly rejecting what it considered too low a threshold for materiality as adopted by the lower court.
Nobody expects them to be a large party in the Bundestag (lower house), and perhaps not even to pass the threshold to get any representation.
However, the threshold that will get you a life sentence is much lower than a billion dollars.
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However, Japanese regulations have a lower limit for women, and the female worker in question exceeded that threshold three time over.
Italian bond yields were actually slightly lower Wednesday, though the 10-year remained near the 7% threshold as the ECB stepped into buy bonds.
The threshold for placing a general law city in receivership or being dissolved is lower than that for a charter city.
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Either way, it's clearly beyond the threshold for classification as an INES level seven event, although an order of magnitude lower than the 5.2 million TBq released from Chernobyl.
Mr Alexander said the coalition's raising of the threshold at which people started to pay income tax would "lift over a million lower paid people out of tax altogether".
Mandating a fixed threshold will also have the perverse effect of lessening incentives to increase productivity in health care and get lower prices from insurers, physicians and hospitals.
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