Prior to defining the terms to send to the panel we performed a sensitivity analysis using threshold percentages of 0, 0.01%, 1%, 5%, 10%, 15% and 20%.
While the 46th Democratic National Convention had no higher order of business than to nominate Mr. Obama to a second term and to send party activists forth with the urgent task of helping him win re-election, the side conversations among delegates looked far beyond November to a discussion of the party's roster of talent.
It was the man who became known as the "hanging judge", the late Ayatollah Khalkhali, who in early 1980s used those terms readily to send people to their deaths.
It would probably be in Cleveland's best long-term interests to send Bennett to the D-League so he could figure things out at a less pressure-filled level but that runs contrary to the "we must win this season" desperation that seems to fuel their every move.
Mr Bush's formula for making his administration more efficient in the second term has been to send his most loyal White House policy advisers (such as Condoleezza Rice and Margaret Spellings) to run various cabinet departments.
"He is confident that he will win another term and wants to send a positive signal inside the country and to make sure that talks with Washington will proceed".
Forget the fact that those media companies had almost no experience in retailing: this was during the high-water mark for e-commerce, when the mere mention of the term was enough to send an Internet company's stock soaring.
The judge, explaining why he had rejected the defense's request for a substantially shorter sentence, provided two reasons why the symbolism of a much longer term was important: to send the "strongest possible message" of deterrence, and to help the victims heal.
Investors seized on this, and on remarks by the Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, who said "the prospects for a return to growth in the near term appear good," to send the key U.S. indexes to their highest closes of the year Friday.
The most sensible way for governments to tackle this genuine (but long-term) problem is to send a powerful signal that the world must move towards a low-carbon future.
