There is a limit beyond which a higher tax rate will result in less tax collection.
Ms. KRUMHOLZ: There's a threshold beyond which even candidates in the second tier are on good footing to compete.
But we also recognize that there are limits beyond which the net benefits are negative.
This dry riverbed marks the invisible boundary beyond which she can't safely go.
There is a line of misconduct beyond which they will not keep silent.
It is the point of approach beyond which there can be no return.
But in a struggling economy that equilibrium point, beyond which an increased cost of hiring unquestionably kills jobs, is always lower.
Ear health means little to those chasing the magic number: 194 decibels, thought to be a threshold beyond which stereos might explode.
The patent will however impose a threshold on the number of transfers permitted beyond which the ability to move will be terminated.
They said Annan would be carrying a document clearly specifying "red lines beyond which Annan cannot go" in talks with Iraqi officials.
Downstairs, the reflected window in the half bath showed part of a brilliant curtain, beyond which lay the green grass of childhood summers.
This is because ecosystems are in very real danger of approaching tipping points beyond which we will be unable to stop their continued degradation.
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From couch potatoes to Olympic athletes, everyone has a physical capacity for exertion, beyond which the body becomes stressed and begins to feel bad.
Italy's borrowing costs passed the psychological 7% level -- beyond which countries are considered unable to fund themselves -- last November, before dropping back.
The main component of the current fiscal cliff squabbling, the income border beyond which the tax rate will increase, is clearly not a middle class issue.
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As Global Biodiversity Outlook 3 warns, ecosystems are approaching tipping points beyond which they will be irreversibly degraded, with long-term consequences for all life on earth, including humans.
Yet scientists believe 120 or so remains a stubborn limit beyond which the human body cannot live without some serious - and so far unknown - genetic intervention.
The thresholds beyond which first 50 percent and then 85 percent of your Social Security benefits are subject to federal income taxation are explicitly NOT indexed for inflation.
The Californian researchers are unwilling to point to a maximum age beyond which no one could live, although they take the view that no one could live for ever.
There is a cap on the maximum deduction that can be taken, and additionally there is an upper limit of expenses beyond which the Section 179 deduction is phased out, dollar for dollar.
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Is he implying, as it appears, that there is a cost barrier beyond which it ceases to be worthwhile for companies to make sure they are not funding rape and war through their purchases?
Beyond which we really would be truly stuffed.
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The problem was not with the concept of debt intolerance, but rather with the portrayal of the 90 percent level as some sort of natural threshold beyond which economic growth rates would be severely curtailed.
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Since the capabilities of such intelligence would be difficult for an unaided human mind to comprehend, the occurrence of a technological singularity is seen as an intellectual event horizon, beyond which events cannot be predicted or understood.
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Economists Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff triggered a vigorous round of naysaying earlier this year when they released a paper suggesting a government debt-to-gross domestic product ratio of 90% is a magic threshold beyond which debt can stifle economic growth.
Despite advances in understanding the impacts of elevated CO2 concentrations on a wide range of marine organisms, we are still unable to make meaningful projections of impacts on marine ecosystems and fisheries as a whole, or to identify thresholds beyond which marine ecosystems may not recover.
And what is important about this is that we have not simply averted what would have been an absolute disaster, assuming, again, Congress acts, which would have been passing a period beyond which we would no longer have had borrowing authority and risking -- creating the possibility of default on our obligations for the first time in our history.
But there is a point beyond which it is his responsibility, as steward of the executive branch, to the American people and to future Presidents and future administrations, to retain the constitutionally enshrined separation of powers, to retain the capacity of the executive branch to deliberate and consult internally so that it can appropriately and independently respond to inquiries like this.
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