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"There is a threshold of violence that may tip things to the other side," the senior official said.
Even so, the threshold of violence that would prompt our mother to seek outside intervention was very high.
Below a certain threshold of violence, moreover, traditional strategy still operates, as in the sparring between India and Pakistan over Kashmir.
The father's arrival ratchets up the tensions, and the story ends abruptly on what seems to be the threshold of violence.
Think of how a riot develops: it begins when someone with a low "threshold of violence" decides to break a shop window; then, as it grows, people who wouldn't otherwise participate in a riot — people with higher thresholds of violence — decide to take part.
He was portrayed by Mr. Hayes's lawyers as the Svengali of the crime, crossing the threshold of violence first, egging-on Mr. Hayes to commit rape and murder, and coolly reflecting later that he had considered killing Mr. Hayes.
While a cozy relationship with the Egyptian military might be preferable for American interests to a radicalized, hostile government in Cairo, there is also a threshold of violence — still unknown — that, if passed, would make it impossible for the Defense Department to continue its dealings there.
"In order to do that, they have to go beyond a certain threshold of violence," he told HuffPost.
