Sentences with 'threshold'
Example sentences and phrases with the word threshold and other words derived from it.
• « Because the members of the committee believed that not only France, but the world was on the threshold of a new era, they proclaimed the creation of a new calendar that began on 22 September 1792 (Day 1, Year 1), the day on which the republic was declared. »
• « Throughout the vast breadth of his books and correspondence, Marx (and his collaborator Friedrich Engels) argued that each nation would have to reach a critical threshold at which industrialism was ripe, the proletariat was large and self-conscious, and the bourgeoisie used increasingly harsh political tactics to try to keep the proletariat in check. There would have to be, and according to Marxism there always will be, a great economic crisis caused by overproduction. »
• « Blackness and silence enveloped him; was it not death? How could he be sure that he had not already crossed the threshold? He felt his body to make sure that he had not been separated from it. »
• « According to MENSA's honorary president, Victor Serebriakoff, one can improve one's intelligence, but only up to a certain threshold set at birth: "The idea that anyone can be educated to any level is dangerous; going around telling people that everyone is capable of becoming a genius only serves to disappoint them. »