Sentence examples for threshold of life from inspiring English sources

He truly was on the threshold of life and he lived his life to the full and embraced every opportunity that came his way".

Meanwhile, Limen promises to be equally allusive, a meditation on the "threshold of life and death, darkness and light" that brings together the light-and-numbers installations of Japanese artist Tatsuo Miyajima with the music of Kaija Saariaho, a Fin.

Tibetan monks believe a new life begins around the time of a mating couple's orgasm; many Catholics posit that it starts at the union of an egg and sperm; Roe v. Wade effectively established a legal threshold of life at 24 weeks of fetal gestation; some consider meaningful life to begin at birth; the Navajo think a baby is fully human when it laughs for the first time.

During the debate she said: "[W]e are doing at last a great act of justice to the women of the country ... just as we have [previously] opened the door to the older women, tonight we are opening it to those who are just entering on the threshold of life and in whose hands is the new life of the future country that we are going to build".

A small induction of ROS in tumor cells may push the level of ROS over the threshold of life and death to induce cell death, whereas normal cells can better tolerate the oxidative insults because of their lower basal level of ROS and stronger antioxidant capacities.

However, this pattern was not consistent across thresholds of life satisfaction since the results indicate that severe anxiety/depression had more impact than self-care problems at lower levels of life satisfaction (columns I-III), but the opposite was the case for higher levels of satisfaction.

It was the story of a young woman with a large fortune on the threshold of a life that seemed boundless in its possibilities".

And now, finally, I have nearly stepped over the threshold of my life into the deep abyss of the unknown darkness, only to be miraculously saved by the powers that be in order that I serve your further".

In that way he is like so many of his millennial generation — new workers wavering on the threshold of real life, determined to get it right, they say, and fearful that they might get it wrong.

After last year's Boyhood Island, Knausgaard's autobiography-fiction hybrid arrives at the threshold of adult life, as the 18-year-old narrator finds himself teaching in a remote fishing village and beginning to write short stories.

February 3 , 1901Bourne End, England March 12 , 1990London, England Rosamond Nina Lehmann, (born Feb. 3, 1901, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, Eng. died March 12 , 1990 London) English novelist noted for her sensitive portrayals of girls on the threshold of adult life.