Word: thresholds
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...religion in more political form. The arrest of a 25-year-old Muslim named Mohammed Salameh raised the specter that the bombing of Manhattan's World Trade Center was perhaps a terrorist act of intense cultural symbolism, framed in religious context. And it brought serious terrorism across the American threshold for the first time...
...response to racial repression than the term most commonly used, "riot." On the other hand, he earned the outrage of many black coaches and educators by supporting a proposition that requires minimum standards of academic performance in exchange for athletic eligibility. Many African- American athletes fell below that threshold. But Ashe also realized the role in which numerous black college athletes are cast. "You really don't care about us as students," he told white administrators. "You care about us as athletes to fill your stadiums and arenas...
...they have no credentials, no cars and no permission to venture into the countryside. When people seeking asylum venture into the U.S. center for processing refugees in Port-au-Prince, they can see the army headquarters just two blocks away. Some are risking their life by even crossing the threshold. When they leave, informers loitering downstairs -- some posing as money changers -- are waiting to report their names to the police...
Among Christians inspired by feminism, especially in English-speaking countries, a threshold was crossed last week; but the broader cultural shift has been occurring for decades and is fast gaining momentum. In permitting the ordination of women, the Church of England joined a transformation that has altered other Protestant denominations since the early 1950s and that has already been embraced by the independent Anglican churches of Canada, New Zealand and the U.S., with Australia almost certain to take the step this week...
...report addressed concerns about the newplan possibly causing a decrease in diversitywithin the houses by saying that diversity wouldbe preserved by the 25 percent threshold forstrict first choice selection...