Sentence examples for major threshold from inspiring English sources

On the Fourth of July, North Korea passed a major threshold: it launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile powerful enough to reach the mainland United States.

Rose is speaking from a position of strength having crossed the major threshold two years ago at the US Open at Merion.

"Doors were very often considered a major threshold in the spiritual as well as the physical sense," said Nancy Wu, associate museum educator at the Cloisters, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's medieval branch.

One major threshold that was immediately crossed by the new Bush Administration was the prevailing notion that terrorism was a law-enforcement issue rather than a national-security threat.

The nation crossed a major threshold with the last two missile tests, on July 4 and July 28, which analysts said demonstrated intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of hitting Alaska and, in the most recent test, the mainland United States.

And with the launch of the Kepler satellite in March 2009 and the release last week of the data it has so far gathered, astronomy has crossed a major threshold.

As a result, the experts say, many of these regions are now close to (or even in some cases past) major thresholds that, once crossed, we can't reverse without the arrival of a new ice age.

By late last year, the dollar had powered through major thresholds against the euro, yen, and Canadian dollar.

Franklin and Forman (1987) predicted that major thresholds in fragmentation of the landscape would occur when about 50% of the forest was converted to non-forest as a result of clear-cutting in the PNW (i.e., amount of edge exceeds interior forest).

Milestone birthdays are major thresholds that reinforce the cultural conditioning as it relates to age and health/vitality.

Professor Christian notes that this evolution crosses major "thresholds" such as the formation of the first stars, chemical elements, planets, living cells etc.