Sentences with phrase «very high bar»

Alexander sets a very high bar for others in his profession to aspire to.

The Corsair HS50 sets a very high bar for a budget - conscious gaming headset, trading surround effects for very high build quality (seriously, these are built like much more expensive headphones) and solid 2 - channel sound.

«Samsung is setting a very high bar for wearable technology with this stylised and incredibly functional device,» said Bryan Trussel, co-founder and CEO of Glympse.

With its high - grade design and vibrant, dynamic 4K UHD picture performance, this Signature Series LG OLED sets a very high bar.

Nonetheless, the 3DS still does have a very high bar to catch up to that was set by it \'s predecessor, the DS, which sold 53 million in the US and more than 150 million globally since 2004.

RightsInfo, which is setting a very high bar indeed in terms of the visual explanation of human - rights - related issues, has just launched an excellent two - minute animation on human - rights basics.

Second, the judge also reiterated the fact that an employer must get over a very high bar in order to prove that a dismissed employee failed to mitigate his or her damages.

One parent physically or emotionally abuses children (very high bar to prove this — you must have evidence);

This is a very high bar to meet, and required that the Howard League prove that the system, as a whole, is not capable of ensuring fairness.

It appears that the court placed a very high bar on what constitutes addiction.

While, generally, employers have to overcome a very high bar to successfully dismiss an employee for cause that bar is lowered if an employee has committed acts of sexual harassment.

Some states have very high bar passage rates, meaning you probably do not need to study eight hours a day for two months.

We have to clear a very high bar because we have to produce a product that — for a consumer who's not gonna cut us any breaks — outperforms as a burger what we're getting today from a cow.

Since the climate system is highly variable on its own, that smallness sets a very high bar for confidently projecting the consequences of human influences.

Though it is a very high bar, this happens too rarely in the 2017 Whitney Biennial, which despite its historic inclusivity and the complex discourse its most high - profile curatorial glitch has produced, is too anodyne overall.

«It is a very high bar he has set for his viewers to clear.

Sure, it had its flaws, but it also set a very high bar for future installments.

The opening sequence is powerful, emotional, and comparable in quality to any of Disney's best animated films, and sets a very high bar for the rest of the game.

When you announce your game with a trailer containing a reading of powerful poem In Flanders Fields, you're setting yourself a very high bar to live up to.

Needless to say, God of War has a very high bar of quality expectations to live up to.

Many of the top performers had low volatility but very high bar.

At the moment, we can only say that Samsung has set a very high bar for other tablet manufacturers, when it comes to the high quality of their displays.

According to German site Areamobile.de, Chinese manufacturer Hannspree will be introducing a nice, high spec piece of kit that sets a very high bar for others to follow:

With the Kindle 3 setting a very high bar the last thing Sony can afford is a nonchalant release that doesn't keep up.

In Montgomery County, Md., north of Washington, the school board is moving toward its first charter, a Montessori elementary school, after initially rejecting it and two others with global and environmental themes because, as one official said, «we have a very high bar in terms of performance.»

States and school districts should set a «very high bar» for approving additional charter schools and hold them accountable for student performance, Duncan said last week.

The list of finalists is supposed to reflect U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's promise that he would set a very high bar for this education - reform competition, which has become one of the Obama administration's most high - profile policy levers.

Also not a very high bar.

Delaware and Tennessee beat out 14 other finalists today to win the first - round competition for $ 4 billion in Race to the Top Fund grants, as U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan delivered on promises that he would set a «very, very high bar» for the economic - stimulus money...

Nevertheless, while Detroit's district schools are so bad that it's not a very high bar, Detroit does show how even a significantly regulated system of school choice can outperform the government's system of district schools.

With distinguished representing a very high bar, teachers will have to get comfortable with the idea that they will quite likely not be distinguished in each indicator, but rather aspiring toward distinguished in some indicators.

Rep. Michael Bileca, a Miami Republican who chairs the House education committee and has been a chief proponent of the legislation, said the bill sets «a very high bar» for the performance of charter school operators that would be eligible to qualify for the incentives.

A number of these states have glaring deficiencies that would make them unable to get over a medium bar much less the «very, very high bar» that Secretary Duncan said he would set.

What I've found through experience, however, is that students can achieve a very high bar, if the teacher is brave enough to set it for them.

If this is the beginning of licensed content in Fortnite, the team already set a very high bar to clear for its next project.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided set a very high bar to beat this year.

His films since then have all come up just a bit short of that very high bar he set 13 years ago.

I don't know what to say that hasn't already been said by many people way smarter than me, but it set a very high bar for brilliant satire, acting, cinematography, production design, everything.

With the centenary of the First World War now up and running we can expect a plethora of films about that dreadful conflict to emerge over the next couple of years but Testament of Youth has set a very high bar indeed.

If you're looking for a place with warm ambiance and delightfully scrumptious cuisine, Lacroix sets a very high bar for dinner dates.

You are truly setting a very high bar, «pardnahh».

The problem with the rival analysis, Bem claims, was that Wagenmakers set a very high bar for how strong the psi effect had to be to meet the Bayesian test.

«That's a very high bar for bringing a male contraceptive to market,» Georg points out.

Colleagues showered praise on Councilman Rafael Espinal, who represents the majority of the area slated for rezoning, saying he set an «historic» model and a «very high bar» for other neighborhoods with the capital funding commitments secured for his community.

Cuomo's will be trying to live up to the very high bar set by his father, the late former Gov. Mario Cuomo, with his memorable 1984 «tale of two cities» speech, in which he called out Republican President Reagan for his «shining city on a hill» rhetoric.

«Public officials have accountability based on a very high bar...

Second, it places a very high bar on the legal and moral authorisation for an intervention on the basis of that attack.

First it sets a very high bar on the evidential threshold for concluding that a chemical attack took place and that it was conducted by the Syrian regime.

When the question of rights comes up (even if they're minority rights), you have to set a very high bar to protect them.

I believe one needs to have a very high bar when it comes to getting offended.