The company could also be vulnerable to securities lawsuits, as investors would have to prove only that it made "material misstatements" ahead of an offering, rather than a high threshold of securities fraud.
Whitehall knows that, since Iraq, the threshold of intelligence and security credibility in Britain has been raised to a level probably higher than it has ever been.
By limiting the short circuit currents below the safety threshold, the security of power systems is guaranteed.
This time, though, there is also an initial requirement: nominees need to pass a threshold of credibility on national security.
In addition, even very experienced individual clinicians may have differing thresholds for determining what level of security is required and will weight various forms of evidence differently when arriving at their recommendations.
"If this is confirmed, this is very alarming because it reflects that the threshold of what constitutes a state security crime was considerably lowered last year," Mr. Bequelin said.
A senior member of the British security establishment told me that the Manchester attack posed a "new threshold" in a debate taking place about the future of security and defense.
It would commit the government to deploy resources towards providing a minimum threshold of food, clothing, shelter and social security.
Optimal Thresholds for Intrusion Detection Systems, 3rd Annual Symposium and Bootcamp on the Science of Security (HotSoS), April, 2016.
JON LEE ANDERSON: Some actually believed, in the euphoria of the moment the peaceful uprising that they were on the threshold of bringing an end to the theocratic security state that Iran has become.
