While the fate of both bills is uncertain, there is little doubt a threshold has been crossed.
A fear in the legal profession is that, because a jury has to be 100 per cent sure of guilt before convicting, criminals are being acquitted simply because the jury does not understand the case and interprets this as "reasonable doubt", the threshold needed for exoneration.
The hospital had to prove beyond a reasonable doubt — the same threshold used in criminal trials — that Linda was incapable of making her own decisions.
It is the only state to require that offenders prove they are mentally retarded beyond a reasonable doubt, a procedural threshold that is extremely difficult to reach.
Given the high evidentiary threshold, doubt, in and of itself, effectively impedes the agency's ability to take action (Guth et al 2007).
Be that as it may, doubts about my threshold for exertion and deprivation turned into full-on panic by the time my plane landed at John Wayne Airport.
But if they fall, the Spurs will no doubt cross a psychological threshold, no longer viewed as contenders and ripe for rebuilding.
Several very fine Fleet Street inquisitors have relied on what might be called threshold ambiguity: doubt about whether something said at the door or while making tea can be placed on the record.
"What we know is that the official threshold for doubting the sanity of these individuals is very low".
Testifying before Congress last September, Mr. Rumsfeld said that in the age of terrorism, "proof beyond a reasonable doubt" is too high a threshold for military intervention.
It's already more than halfway to that mark after just a few hours of accepting backers, so there's little doubt it'll reach that threshold.
