Sentence examples for stood on the threshold of from inspiring English sources

When Jefferson died in 1826, the nation stood on the threshold of a stupendous transformation.

By the 1991 Gulf War, Iraq stood on the threshold of a nuclear weapons capability.

Virginia Hernández and Quico Iñesta packed their suitcases in 2011, as they stood on the threshold of their 30s.

Suddenly transformed from a silver swimmer into a bold pioneer, this creature stood on the threshold of what would become an explosion of evolutionary diversification.

In this intoxicating 'Tehran spring', many Western commentators were seduced into believing that Iran stood on the threshold of a new era of freedom.

She wrote of the pain she felt at wrenching herself from her "friends" and venturing into lands unknown: "I feel almost as if I stood on the threshold of a home and were bidding farewell to its inmates".

But as the campaign finance overhaul bill stands on the threshold of final passage in the Senate this week, one of the most interesting things about it is that no one is sure what effect it will have on Republicans, Democrats or American politics.

In the large hall (of the unconscious), mental impulses "jostle one another" as they try to get past the guard who stands on the threshold of the drawing room, which Freud named the preconscious.

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We stand on the threshold of a new century big with the fate of many nations.

We stand on the threshold of a very challenging but very exciting future.