Sentence examples for threshold issues from inspiring English sources

Borders and security are the two threshold issues.

But first there were some "threshold" issues to overcome, meaning hurdles that had to be passed before an argument about the merits could even begin.

On March 26, the court will hear arguments on the threshold issues of whether a federal law called the Anti-Injunction Act makes challenges to the mandate premature until 2015.

But an argument on Wednesday proved so tangled that several justices said the only proper course was to clear away the threshold issues and decide the heart of the matter.

"To announce in February of an election year that 'We'll focus upon property taxes, education and water quality,' after having served as Senate president for nine years, is to underscore his inability or unwillingness to grapple with these threshold issues for the entirety of the Whitman administration," he said.

"Because it is not known whether the Affordable Care Act will remain, in whole or in part, it would be imprudent for New Jersey now to create an exchange before these critical threshold issues are decided with finality by the court," he added.

Choice is a threshold issue in California.

"This is a threshold issue," Mr. Franks said.

There was a threshold issue I had to confront.

But we felt that we had a threshold issue to defend.

Defense spending, once the great threshold issue separating hawks from doves, has been laid to rest.