At a certain level of abstraction, it's fairly simple to describe where Mr. Shafei wants to go.
"At a certain level of violence, you cannot expect people to make serious decisions about their country's future.
But clearly, exposure to certain subjects, at a certain level of intensity, can be profoundly dangerous for those cursed with this particular achilles heel.
"If you want to do business with the likes of Costco or Wal-Mart," he said, "you're going to have to be at a certain level of security".
"The government and conservationists want to cap it at a certain level of tourists per year, but there's still a lot of room for growth".
The price point is partly a result of the market's downward pressure: at a certain level of supply and demand the race to the lowest price swiftly plummets to the bottom.
At a certain level of a certain segment of society, the one Gore Vidal calls America's ruling class, any conversation is destined at some point to become a narrative of tribal history.
I don't know what this means, but if you've got a child who is similarly inclined, I'm going to assume that you are already used to operating at a certain level of bewilderment.
It took that time, said Ms. Tabin, 51, for the orchestra "to arrive at a certain level of performance, to develop a strong enough repertoire and to have the financial ability to record".
"With my four-by-five camera, I could print a forty-by-fifty-inch print, and you could look at it at a certain level of detail," he said.
At a certain level of remoteness, the possibility of error was said to invade the activity of aeons; in most systems, such error was responsible for the creation of the material universe.
