We are at a tipping point and Aereo was the last push across the threshold.

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When the door yielded and a man stood warily, holding it half open, David pushed forward across the threshold.

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He was a beast being shuffled across the threshold of the slaughterhouse.

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As for Lennar, the largest U.S. home-builder, it reduced the incentives and promotions it once needed to get folks across the threshold.

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As to timing, Mr Perkovich explains how India was yanked across the nuclear threshold for crude party-political reasons.

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This leads some to argue that instead of seeking to cap campaign contributions and spending, reformers should aim to help candidates across the magic threshold.

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It won fewer voters in the two Euro-regions it now represents than it did in 2004 but low turnout and a poor showing by others, particularly Labour, enabled it to creep across the proportional system's threshold.

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Meanwhile, participants for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change prepared for meetings in Bonn, grappling with a convergence of new data from the International Energy Agency suggesting that humanity will be unable to prevent temperatures from exceeding the catastrophic threshold of a 2 degree Centigrade increase across the planet.

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