It becomes so only when it has reached a certain threshhold, a given size.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Months Later] Reference

I crossed the 30k word threshhold on the manuscript this morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marathon : Bev Vincent] Reference

Nothing else explains the commander-in-chief "threshhold" and Ferraro's explosions, which have continued unabated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary To Huddle With Her Top Donors In D.C. Today] Reference

The whole CIC threshhold was bad enough, but this??.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary: Wright "Would Not Have Been My Pastor"] Reference

I stand beside the threshhold and gaze upon the sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2] Reference

Therefore, that is a psychological threshhold to look out for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rasmussen: Obama Up Four Points In Texas Primary] Reference

There is no magic threshhold -- Democrats don't count the votes.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Diary: Censorship on OpEdNews.] Reference

It was somewhat below the threshhold Congress mandated, in fact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry Shearer: New Orleans Faces "The Nation"] Reference

I think I have threshhold of snark that I have to keep regulated.    From Wordnik.com.  [dulligirl Diary Entry] Reference

Around the well-known threshhold spread a freshening coolness now.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Liberty Minstrel] Reference

Just when and how did she cross the commander-in-chief threshhold?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary: McCain Has Crossed "Commander In Chief Threshold"] Reference

She and McSame really did cross the same commander-in-chief threshhold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary: McCain Has Crossed "Commander In Chief Threshold"] Reference

I thought she was going to tell us he'd passed the threshhold to be CIC.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary: "Let's Wait And See" On Spitzer] Reference

The door of the Pierson cottage opened and Anne appeared on the threshhold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls] Reference

About 60 percent of Malawi's 11 million people live below the poverty threshhold.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

He has an amazingly high threshhold of pain but now he had begun to respond to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Angry Lead Skies]

That would be almost as good for the party as her crossing the threshhold comment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report: Obama Adviser Calls Hillary A "Monster"] Reference

He stood at the threshhold and called out to her "Grannie, grannie, open the door.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Folklore of the Santal Parganas] Reference

Now there's two guys who have crossed the ever illusive CIC threshhold, right Billy?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report: Obama Adviser Calls Hillary A "Monster"] Reference

Impeachment would take too long and with a 67 threshhold in the Senate be a waste of time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Election Central Saturday Roundup] Reference

"Impeachment would take too long and with a 67 threshhold in the Senate be a waste of time.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Election Central Saturday Roundup] Reference

If we are still there, Iraq is going to be a threshhold issue for Dem primary voters in 2008.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chuck Todd: Hillary Faces Steep Uphill Climb To Dem Nomination] Reference

Monica also crossed Bill's threshhold, and I don't want her answering the phone at 3 AM, either.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary: McCain Has Crossed "Commander In Chief Threshold"] Reference

This time, there was no hesitation at the threshhold of each new section, and Phil sang it beautifully.    From Wordnik.com.  [The WELL: Unbroken Chain] Reference

To pass the CIC threshhold you must start a war large enough to justify a half dozen aircraft carriers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary: McCain Has Crossed "Commander In Chief Threshold"] Reference

And acting as though Iraq = Soviet Union is below the threshhold of argument I think worth responding to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Did Obama Believe Iraq Had WMDs?] Reference

Within a few pages we seem to have been brought to the threshhold of something fascinatingly inexpressible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Accident by Ismail Kadare] Reference

Silently he turned the knob, but, before he had stepped over the threshhold, he heard a voice calling softly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Diamond Cross Mystery Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story] Reference

Israel had hardly passed the threshhold of Canaan, and was then striking the first blow of a half century war?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4] Reference

You have failed to meet the "class threshhold" and are not worthy of the insufficient support you have received.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary: "I Will Be Making No Decisions Tonight"] Reference

Conses-Garcia had a blood alcohol level of .15, which is nearly twice the New York threshhold for intoxication .08.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York State Mother and Daughter Struck Down by Illegal Alien] Reference

Does that mean that Monica has crossed the CiC threshhold since she was under the desk when those 3am calls came in?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Adviser Apologizes For Calling Hillary A "Monster"] Reference

Perhaps donations from business interests in the town and beyond have all fallen beneath the threshhold for declaration?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Thursday Cyril: Rochdale Lib Dems Brickwall] Reference

In that primary, they required a 50% threshhold to make an endorsement, rather than the 66% they mandated this time around.    From Wordnik.com.  [MoveOn Members Vote Overwhelmingly To Endorse Obama] Reference

Over 80 percent of the population lives below the poverty threshhold while the rate of unemployment is more than 70 percent.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Most of the research I have seen on voter behavior suggests that experience is a threshhold criteria rather than a deal closer.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Richardson Ads: I'm OVER-Qualified To Be President] Reference