Sentence examples for upon the threshold from inspiring English sources

And when, at last, believing joy at hand, I stand upon the threshold of my bliss, He casts me down to where my grief began.

Rushton, W. The effect upon the threshold for nervous excitation of the length of nerve exposed, and the angle between current and nerve.

He sat down upon the threshold of ash-wood just inside the doors leading from the outer to the inner court, and against a bearing-post of cypress-wood which the carpenter had skillfully planed, and had made to join truly with rule and line.

The third mountain that draws me into its orbit is Kailash, which many believe stands upon the threshold of transcendence.

This person has indulged in smoking the marijuana herb in his youth, but upon the threshold of maturing adulthood gave it up for the sake of responsibilities.

However, the variation in the sensitivity amongst the ants means that the 'perception' (i.e. local detection) of the stimulus landscape is dependent upon the threshold of the ant concerned (Fig. 5).

Since transmission electron microscopy reveals that several dislocations typically interact with a single dispersoid, the modified threshold stress model presented in the theoretical companion article [1] is applicable, whereby the stress of dislocation pile-ups upon the threshold-controlling dislocation is taken into account.

The triple ISC built based upon the thresholds corresponding to the three major immunoglobulin isotypes (IgG, IgM and IgA) showed the highest impact on survival mean time, which was reduced 6.6 days in average in those patients showing a ISC IgGAM = 0 (Fig. 1; Additional file 1).

Upon crossing the threshold, visitors are greeted by a chandelier that resembles Chiquita Banana's headpiece.

Can an officer who is trained to live an undercover lie fairly be expected to turn off the duplicity spigot upon crossing the threshold into the courtroom?

The rich blue, yellow and green tiles in eye-popping patterns, similar to fleur-de-lis patterns, are the first thing a visitor sees upon crossing the threshold.