These are reasonable principles, but what are the thresholds?

This currently only happens if a company meets complex turnover thresholds.

The WHO recommends what it calls a Directly Observed Therapy Strategy (DOTS) and has set diagnostic thresholds of at least 70 of infectious cases, and curative thresholds of 85 .

NEW HAVEN Economists like to talk about thresholds that, if crossed, spell trouble.

Institutional measures such as fiscal frameworks and public debt thresholds can do much to help.

Climate is a profoundly complex, nonlinear system, full of runaway positive feedbacks, hidden thresholds and irrevocable tipping points.

First, countries should be cautious about external financial liberalization when financial sector development and institutional quality are below key thresholds.

We would have to set the thresholds for psychiatric diagnosis a lot higher, resurrecting the distinction between chronic illness and mild suffering.

Many upstarts in the sector have carved out a competitive advantage by avoiding thresholds beyond which they would face substantial regulatory scrutiny and requirements.

It has to move forward fast enough to exceed critical physical thresholds, which are significantly higher than those for most of Boeing s other (smaller) planes.

While non organic fruits and vegetables had more pesticide residue, the levels in more than 99 of cases did not cross the conservative safety thresholds set by regulators.

Second, new capital ratios with multiple and decreasing capital thresholds, which trigger increasingly intrusive corrective action, should serve as the basis for a new system of mandated supervisory action.

Yet there is a sense that progress and understanding will require something new an economics of virtuous circles, thresholds, and butterfly effects, in which small changes have very large effects.

The lesson is simple We should worry less about debt ratios and thresholds, and more about our inability to see these indicators for the artificial and often irrelevant constructs that they are.

Of course, the extent to which an electoral system favors large parties by having high popular vote thresholds to enter parliament, or through winner take all constituencies affects the degree of political fragmentation.

Of course, the extent to which an electoral system favors large parties by having high popular vote thresholds to enter parliament, or through winner take all constituencies affects the degree of political fragmentation.

Given the fiscal legacy of the current crisis, no efforts should be spared in anchoring fiscal discipline firmly in European Union countries. Institutional measures such as fiscal frameworks and public debt thresholds can do much to help.

The proposals also clarify Brussels' jurisdiction in relation to national competition authorities mergers requiring a review by three or more national authorities will go automatically to Brussels. This currently only happens if a company meets complex turnover thresholds.

When the downside risks associated with such limits and thresholds are brought into estimates of sustainable development, the growth in wealth among the world s wealthy nations will probably turn out to have been less than we now think.

Given how easy it is to manipulate social media activity, people will need to be very careful about what they post, as anyone with a grudge or an agenda could quickly push a target's message over those thresholds.

Over medication would affect fewer Americans if we could rein in such clear examples of over diagnosis. We would have to set the thresholds for psychiatric diagnosis a lot higher, resurrecting the distinction between chronic illness and mild suffering.

Second, new capital ratios with multiple and decreasing capital thresholds, which trigger increasingly intrusive corrective action, should serve as the basis for a new system of mandated supervisory action. Supervisors should be bound by a presumption that they will act.

For the Dreamliner to take off, ascend, and maintain a steady altitude, it must do more than move forward. It has to move forward fast enough to exceed critical physical thresholds, which are significantly higher than those for most of Boeing s other (smaller) planes.

Now, in Beijing, officials see the advantages of a more hands off approach, and of institutions with a primarily commercial focus. But they have not eschewed the use of variable capital and reserve requirements, loan to deposit ratios, and thresholds for minimum deposits and maximum leverage as controls on property lending.

Without a real and lasting solution that recalibrates our current economic thinking at a systemic level, the scale and pace of change could soon push the planet past critical thresholds and make sustainable development everywhere an impossible dream. Although multilateralism is a slow and often painful process of cultivating consensus, some issues are so large that they transcend any one country.