Sentences with phrase «set higher bars»

If Steckler had his way, more seasoned and ambitious teachers would set higher bars, while first - year teachers would have more modest goals.

A higher average could also indicate that schools set higher bars, and can be more selective about who is admitted.

Complicating matters, online retailers like Amazon have set a high bar for customer service that companies of all sizes are now expected to meet, says Hal Altman, president and co-founder of Motivational Fulfillment & Logistical Services in Chino, Calif..

Although Amazon sets a high bar, there are several things you can do to provide reliable, cost - effective shipping that your customers will appreciate.

JPMorgan reported fourth - quarter earnings on Thursday that set a high bar for the rest of Wall Street.

But just be sure to set a high bar for what will lead to such praise.

Another way to engage more fully with a contractor, Clark suggest, is to make tasks scaled or laddered — in other words, give them a minimum amount of work to accomplish, but also set a high bar, and hold out the possibility of additional compensation, to reward the contractor if he or she is able to achieve more than you expect.

The second day of Swell came to a close on Tuesday, and even though the first day of programming set a high bar, the second day set a new standard.

We've set a high bar for trust and confidence.

«Although our mandate is purely commercial, we also set high bars for corporate governance and environmental and social responsibility,» says Anders Stendebakken, a Singapore - based managing director of Brummer & Partners.

But it is true that lenders set a higher bar for conventional loan applicants than for other applicants — FHA buyers, for instance.

Melissa Fleischut, president of the New York State Restaurant Association, adds «Danny Meyer and Union Square Hospitality Group have enhanced the New York restaurant scene tremendously by setting a high bar for food and service across many dining segments.

The Certified Angus Beef ® brand represents the industry's highest caliber meat, and this partnership showcases how Palace Resorts sets a higher bar throughout the industry especially when it comes to our culinary offering,» said Gibran Chapur, Executive Vice President of Palace Resorts.

This basketball court design is setting a high bar.

He and Vince Biegel combined for 17.5 sacks, which sets a high bar for Schobert's likely replacement, T.J. Watt.

The Nassau County executive - elect's promise to halt the practice has set a high bar for an administration still being formed.

The court's ruling set a higher bar for prosecuting public corruption and said explicitly that setting up meetings or arranging events for benefactors could not by themselves serve as a public official's end of a corrupt bargain.

The first two leadership contests of the summer have set a high bar — but the Ukip contest, which gets underway tomorrow, could still prove to be the most entertaining of them all.

«We set a high bar and these states met the challenge.»

The defense has pushed for the judge, Valerie Caproni, to set a higher bar in her instructions to the jury, claiming the proper standard requires Silver to have known that a bribe was being offered — a «meeting of the minds,» as one defense attorney put it.

The President himself set a high bar for science funding when he at various times pledged to double basic research, physical science, and cancer research funding on the campaign trail.

These questions get at the very nature of space and time and set a high bar for relativity's successor.

«We sent a signal to the market very early that says we're going to set a high bar.

Ask the person to explain what they know: People who feel sure of their position set a high bar for contrary evidence, Ditto says, but often such confidence stems from a misperception that they know more than they actually do, a phenomenon researchers call the illusion of explanatory depth.

They're really the gold standard and set a high bar for the national standard.»

We chose a mouse model that no blood stage vaccine had ever succeeded in, specifically to set a high bar for success.

Peach & Lily's market research showed that the neighborhood demographic set the highest bar in New York for obsessive skincare knowledge.

Calling itself the «best website for single women,» BeNaughty sets a high bar for safety and discretion, even while promoting casual online dating.

The website continues to be a trend setter in the sugar daddy space, having set a higher bar for what it means to be a «sugar daddy».

These sequences set a high bar both for directors who followed in Mr. De Palma's wake and for Mr. Cruise's physical performance, which in the later installments has largely involved progressively scarier stunts.

Meyers did a good job, setting a high bar for hosting in a time of tricky comedy.

They ought to be a whole lot scarier than they are in this tepid genre offering from director Robert Harmon, whose debut film «The Hitcher» set a high bar for screen terror in the 1980s.

The film was shot after The Act of Killing was edited but before it was released, and Oppenheimer's canny stewardship (and brinksmanship) is not irrelevant to their achievement; like Lanzmann, Ophuls, and Panh before him, in purely formal terms he's set a high bar for chroniclers of violence when it comes to galvanizing an audience.

Writer / director Alex Garland set a high bar for himself with Ex Machina, his stellar 2015 directorial debut.

When it comes to considering the needs of others first, the Black Panther sets a high bar.

A series of superb set pieces — a creepy tree springing to ankle - grabbing life, some nail - biting business with a power drill — set a high bar, but Kenan can't sustain the tension.

Daunting because she sets a high bar and you have to measure up, but liberating in that now the show's not going to be compared to last year.

In an interview with IndieWire, Max Greenfield remembers setting a high bar for Schmidt from the start — to be the Joey of «New Girl.»

An art installation designed to inspire altruism sets a high bar for a museum curator whose own behavior leaves something to be desired.

Warrior isn't quite good enough to be the Rocky of MMA, but it sets a high bar for future MMA films.

Lesley Manville, meanwhile (should she remain a lead focus), sets a high bar in «Another Year.»

The financial wallop of the recent, pretty good live - action «Jungle Book» redo, and the live - action «Cinderella» before that, set a high bar of corporate expectation.

The following years would not need the same enticement as without question; it's clear the first Summer of Arcade set a high bar for preceding years as it included the current XBLA sales leader (Castle Crashers) and Metacritic score leader (Braid).

That film, «Risky Business,» set a high bar for the R - rated coming - of - age comedy.

Original story: Now that director Doug Liman has the reins of Dark Universe, the long in - development Justice League Dark movie, he's setting a high bar for what the film can accomplish.

I love that The Hunger Games series has set a high bar which others in a post-Harry Potter era will have to compete with when it comes to gaining a wide audience base outside of screaming teen girls.

It was one of the best Sundances of all time, setting a high bar for 2018.

[Boyle] set the highest bar for the role of director.»

The sequence has a naked ugliness that nothing else in the film can match, but while it doesn't fully integrate, it sets a high bar for performance that the film only periodically reaches again.

That's quite a range of possible disabilities, and it sets a high bar for designing eLearning that can accommodate the widest possible number of learners and instructors.