At that point she ratcheted up the volume, approaching the threshold of pain, and shouted: "I'm losing you.
No one doubts Barber's toughness, but at 28, and with 1,200 N.F.L. touches behind him, he's approaching the threshold where the pounding takes a toll.
With large budget deficits and debt-to-G.D.P. ratios in the range of sixty to eighty per cent, many advanced countries, including the United States and Britain, were fast approaching the threshold of doom, or so it seemed.
Deeper nuclear-arms cuts, a U.S. priority, will harden Russian concerns about U.S. missile defense and nonnuclear strategic systems, while approaching the threshold at which Chinese, Indian and Pakistani forces begin to affect the global nuclear balance.
That the job of a favoured minister is at risk and the fall-out is approaching the threshold of No 10 illustrates how completely the emphasis of the Leveson Inquiry has shifted.
(If, on the other hand, the deduction were to phase out gradually as the headcount increased from, say, 400 to 500, the deduction would be much smaller, and the choice would be much less stark for the company approaching the threshold).
Furthermore, they do not approach the threshold established by the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act.
In one generation, we have emerged from unspeakable degradation and approached the threshold of the White House.
But as he approached the threshold of harder steps -- arresting the bomb makers, for example -- he again retreated into inaction.
Iran was actually more than a decade away from acquiring the technology and expertise to approach the threshold.
But as soon as sound-shaping technology approached the threshold of convenience, popular music took the paradigms of electronic composition and ran with them.
