Sentence examples for A cusp of from inspiring English sources

The more I saw, the more I felt on a cusp of a brave new world – like witnessing the switch from radio to TV.

The smoothness of the regression function in the vicinity of the threshold determines the best possible rate of convergence using our method: a "cusp" of order k at the threshold yields a rate of N−1/ 2k+1), where N is the size/budget of the problem (total number of responses across all values of covariates).

"I don't think that behavioral targeting is something that we should eliminate, but I do think that we're at a cusp of a new era, and the kinds of information that companies share and have today is nothing like we'll see 10 years from now," Professor Turow said.

"I think he sees that we are at a cusp of philosophical changes in the Legislature and across the state over what we've been doing the past few years with accountability and whether there's been any worthwhile gain from all the testing we've done," said Joe Smith, a former superintendent and an education community fixture who runs the Web site TexasISD.com, a clearinghouse of school-related news.

Pakistan appears to be on a cusp of enormous if not bloody changes.

This implies that the origin of (3.3), that is, of (1.6), is a cusp of codimension by in [25, Theorem, Section ].

Like Hollis, singer and lyricist Guy Garvey has a cusp-of-quiet-desperation catch in his voice as he floats across Little Beast, a portrait of smalltown, small-time ennui and violence, and wearily lists his own failings in death- rattle fashion on the even more etiolated Can't Stop.

Time slows down everywhere at this hour on a cusp-of-fall weekend, but here in Clinton, Ontario, a somnolent slip of a town (population 3,500) that is easy to miss after a three-hour drive from Toronto during which you pass nothing but mile after flat mile of fields punctuated by grazing cows and horses, the stillness is so vast that it seems almost cautionary.

He said, "We are on a great cusp of history.

A bright cusp of starlight marks the galaxy's center.

But it also offers a metaphor for a world on the cusp of a social earthquake.