"It seems … these activities are designed to stay below the threshold of conflict, but gradually demonstrate and assert claims that other countries dispute".
If you have a low threshold for conflict, you may want an architect to run interference with the contractor.
"The FDA has a pretty high threshold for conflict of interest," says Sidney Wolfe, of the watchdog group Public Citizen.
The spread of drone technology could lower the threshold for conflict, according to Sarah Kreps of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Previous studies attempted to investigate the influence of hormonal contraceptives on pain threshold, with conflicting results [10, 11], probably because of methodological differences.
Increasing the required threshold for conflicts between embedded quartets to ≥85% BSS yields fewer inferred HGTs (92% gene families affected), whereas decreasing to ≥75% BSS yields more (98% gene families affected).
University of Reading law lecturer Robert P. Barnidge, Jr. wrote in the Boston University International Law Journal, "Targeted Killings also provides some clarity as to the threshold between armed conflict and situations falling short of armed conflict".
We're saying that added to all the other stressors, it helped kick things over the threshold into open conflict.
"Added to all the other stressors, climate change helped kick things over the threshold into open conflict," said report co-author Richard Seager, of Columbia University in New York.
Mr. Waxman, in his letter, also said that the "extremely low" threshold for referring conflict of interest issues to the Justice Department called for such a referral by the White House.
