Sentence examples for modest threshold from inspiring English sources

What I saw last Thursday fell far below even that modest threshold.

If they reach a modest threshold – which can be a threshold of parliamentary seats, share of the popular vote or opinion poll ratings, or some combination – they should be in.

As this campaign's symbol of change (the word is all but tattooed on his forehead), Obama has become, in a sense, the default candidate — the guy you choose if he can clear even a modest threshold of acceptability.

Each of those gets three delegates, all allotted to the winner if he gets a majority, split two to the winner, one to the runner-up if no one gets a majority and the runner-up exceeds 20percentt, a very modest threshold.

In short, the relationship between money and happiness may depend on which theory of happiness we accept: on a life satisfaction view, the relationship may be strong; whereas affect-based views may yield a much weaker connection, again above some modest threshold.

In the U.S., the president's plan requires all advisers to hedge funds and other private pools of capital, including private equity funds and venture capital funds whose assets under management exceed some modest threshold, to register with the SEC under the Investment Advisers Act and provide sufficient information for effective systemic risk supervision.

Ross Eisenbrey, vice president of the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank influential on Democratic policymaking, told HuffPost that his talks with White House personnel lead him to believe they're leaning toward a modest threshold of perhaps $42,000.

However, this study applied a modest threshold (P<0.0001) to select top 11 candidate genes because we focused on the SNPs within a gene region.