Sentences with phrase «water mark for»

November of 2015 also set a new high - water mark for that month with a 14 - per - cent jump in sales over the same month last year.

Our Snapdragon 845 device also beat out Huawei's Mate 10 Pro, which runs on a Kirin 970 processor; that phone scored 6,784 when we tested it, which had been the high - water mark for Android devices.

It's not as outwardly alluring as many high - end rivals — and certainly not as refined as this year's high water mark for smartphone design, the HTC One M8 — but you can't argue with the hardware or the way LG's packaged it all together.

The high water mark for implied reasons is in Agraira v. Canada (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness), 2013 SCC 36.

You have to follow the current high water mark for the things you need to comply with.

One need only compare that against the recent case of Boucher v. Wal - Mart Canada Corp., 2014 ONCA 419 (CanLII), summarized by this blog in the post Wal - Mart Rolls Back Award of Punitive Damages, which must now be considered the high - water mark for aggravated damages for bad behaviour in employment.

With revenue growth near 12 percent and profits per partner growth of close to 14 percent last year, Latham & Watkins blew past its previous high - water mark for revenue, and roughly matched its prerecession record for profitability, according to reporting by The American Lawyer.

Registration — good character: A high water mark for deference to regulatory bodies assessing the «good character» of applicants was set by Alberta courts, which confirmed an Alberta regulatory body's refusal to register a BC professional (Lum v. Council of Alberta Dental Association and College, 2016 ABCA 154, summarized here, and also 2015 ABQB 12, summarized here).

Blatchford's April 14, 2014 column commencing her coverage of a trial in which two young doctors are accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a pair of women represents a new high - water mark for fair - minded criminal court journalism.

«We have gone through 10 years of Conservative rule which started with some real hope in the form of an official apology to residential school survivors, but it has become abundantly clear that was the high - water mark for the Conservatives,» the incumbent continued.

But what matters more is that it is credible and this is now the high water mark for serious Chinese pledges and engagement in the international process since China is probably the most pivotal player

A stunning 1860 brooch featuring an ambrotype portrait of Abraham Lincoln by Mathew Brady, depicting the president in the iconic «Cooper Union» pose, sold for $ 35,000 - a new high water mark for this item at auction.

Dark, depressing and utterly enthralling, The Metro games have long been my personal high water mark for FPS storytelling and atmosphere and nothing about this new entry tells me that is going to change.

It's still the high - water mark for this excellent franchise.

A time - manipulating, postmodern riff on Super Mario Bros, Braid was ecstatically well received, and today, less than a decade later, it has been assuredly welcomed into the canon — a high - water mark for indie gaming and a modern classic by any measure.

This game hit shelves in November of 2000 and has remained as a high water mark for gamers and wrestiling fans alike, one THQ and now 2K Sports, have spent 17 years trying to recreate.

Nippon Ichi Software's debut Disgaea on the current generation of hardware is a high water mark for the studio's long - running SRPG series.

2017 marked a Golden Age for racing sims and maybe — because it was a year of quiet dread where a fresh disaster seemed to lurk around every corner and I can no longer quite shake the night's morbid thoughts in the cold light of morning — a high - water mark for the genre itself.

MGS4 is easily the high - water mark for graphics in games this generation.

Memoria is a great title, and is a high water mark for Daedelic Entertainment.

With compelling writing, surprisingly interesting characters, and puzzles that rely on logic over randomness, The Fall Part 2: Unbound sets a new high - water mark for «old - school» adventure games.

But it really happened, and it happened in October 2007, a high - water mark for the Valve people knew for making video games, instead of the Valve they know now for just selling and maintaining them.

The SNES launch title Super Mario World became the high water mark for 2D sidescrollers, dropping the mustachioed mascot into a colorful 16 - bit world full of dinosaurs and bottomless pits.

Therefore, 2 cents per point should be considered the high water mark for purchasing points.

It appears that way — here's the relevant sentence: «As part of this restructuring exercise the high - water mark for earning performance fees was reset to zero.»

Top - end tablets have set a very high water mark for screen quality though — easily eclipsing laptops, netbooks and most computer monitors — and we think the miScroll's screen is good enough to watch the odd movie or TV episode on.

The Secret History by Donna Tartt Tartt's 1992 debut not only established her as a writer to watch but also raised the high - water mark for contemporary collegiate thrillers.

«Rich in Southern atmosphere and electrifying plot turns, Natchez Burning is a high - water mark for Greg Iles.

The 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona is a high - water mark for absurdity in NASCAR's homologation rules.

In 2013, Jeep reached a high - water mark for the second year in a row, selling 731,565 vehicles around the world and breaking its previous record (set in 2012) by 29,939.

But that is still a long way from Audi's U.S. high - water mark for sales - 74,061 in 1985 - Its most - recent low point was a meager 12,283 sales in 1991.

Blazing down the 3.22 - mile space shuttle landing strip, a stunning hyper - car, called the Hennessey Venom set a brand new high water mark for street legal automobiles.

The citywide graduation rate actually declined a few points this year, and it's been hovering below a previous high - water mark for half a decade.

The meeting was a high - water mark for activists trying to forge a national movement from rebellions that have been taking place largely at the local level.

Sharlto Copley's lead performance is a star - making moment and a high water mark for the year in acting.

Unlike Jennifer Kent's The Babadook (2014) or my personal favorite high water mark for terror, William Friedkin's The Exorcist (1973), Demon works on a more basic level.

Thatgamecompany's Journey sets a new high - water mark for what games can be.

Argento is Horror and Cinema royalty and his presence during TFW is a serious high water mark for the entire weekend.

The result is not just a personal expression of Schrader's own sex - and - death preoccupations, but a sort of high - water mark for the quixotic attempt to meld visually sophisticated erotica with commercially savvy narrative storytelling.

For me, Isle of Dogs is yet another high water mark for Director Wes Anderson.

Foregoing CGI for live stunts more than previous Marvel films, Winter Soldier sets a high - water mark for the studio, with sequences that are fluid, dynamic, and exceptionally well choreographed.

There are scenes of scientists deliberating over the cataclysm of Earth's impending impact with Cybertron using porn acting as the high water mark for sincerity.

Even so, this sequel is a wonderfully entertaining high - water mark for the series with some of the best character beats for every crew member.

The SNES launch title Super Mario World became the high water mark for 2D sidescrollers, dropping the mustachioed mascot into a colorful 16 - bit world full of dinosaurs and bottomless pits.

«Mascots» isn't a revelation or a new high - water mark for Guest — but it is a demonstration of how good he is at this kind of stuff, sometimes as warm and fuzzy as some of the mascots» uniforms and often as twisted as the warped but well - meaning characters who put those uniforms on.

It is a landmark entertainment, and the high water mark for a director who, for an incandescent period of time, sought to elevate the splatter / slasher film into the auspices of high art.

The Thursday opening numbers represent a new high - water mark for the month of February.

No mere genocidal maniac, Thanos has complicated motivations that put him on a par with Michael B. Jordan's Erik Killmonger from Black Panther, the previous Marvel high - water mark for bad guys.

It was critically embraced, commercially successful ($ 333 million in box - office receipts) and a high - water mark for an obscure superhero character in from an obscure comic book horror series.

Rushmore is also something of a high - water mark for Anderson, who is the inadvertent godfather of an irritatingly quirky school of US cinema that grew out of the late 1990s and came to give us such annoying films as Napoleon Dynamite and I Heart Huckabees.