Scott McClellan, Mr Bush's press secretary, repeats banalities while trying to raise the bar for wrongdoing.
With venture capitalists forced to raise the bar, Brophy insists that entrepreneurs must follow suit.
And your sisters are waiting for you to raise the bar for all of us.
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"We've started to raise the bar, " said Hilmar Janusson, Ossur's Vice President of Research and Development.
Samsung's 2012 line of Full HD TVs continue to raise the bar in design and picture quality.
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Joining Forces has been a wonderful instrument just to raise the bar, to shine a light on these issues.
Samsung's 2012 line of Full HD LED and Plasma TVs continue to raise the bar in 2D and 3D picture quality.
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Remember we are (nearly) in 2012, if you want your digital magazine to stand from competition, you will have to raise the bar.
While I still think that, the competition continues to catch up and that means Apple will need to do more to raise the bar.
Our marketing efforts would be crucial to raise the bar with the goal of increasing awareness more broadly while not incurring significantly higher expense.
"Jurgen is trying to raise the bar for U.S. Soccer, but Clint has met the challenge at every level, " said Lyle Yorks, Dempsey's agent.
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Serving as the fifth generation model, the new Quintet offers significant technological refinements guaranteed to raise the bar in the all-in-one home theater category once again.
Partnering with Broadcom allows us to raise the bar and be the first company to introduce the next generation of WiFi in our Smart TV platforms.
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"You want to raise the bar so that kids have a new understanding of what's possible, and I think this experience has raised that bar, " she said.
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So, Mr. Howard is probably not considered your average amputee, but may serve to raise the bar on what amputees everywhere can and will do in the future.
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Conservative politicians have portrayed the Komoto incident as exposing what they call glaring loopholes in the welfare system and the need to raise the bar for receiving payments.
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Foreign parts manufacturers still have a tremendous technological edge over the Chinese manufacturers, but more importantly, some Chinese assemblers are starting to raise the bar in terms of requirements.
The impact to the rest of the market will be to raise the bar on graphics as a whole, which can only benefit high-end graphics makers like NVIDIA and AMD.
"We continue to raise the bar when it comes to the mobile computing experience, " said Mike Lucas, senior vice president of Networked and Technologies and Services Division at Sony Electronics.
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For this 30th Anniversary Issue, we decided to raise the bar : Rather than congregate only on the printed page, what if we actually summoned the 400 to come together in person?
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In order to provide our customers with a superior user experience over 4G networks, LG will continue to raise the bar on all its mobile products, including accessories that support LTE and VoLTE.
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And last, but definitely not least, the improving data and the corresponding rally in stock prices tells us that the stock market is beginning to raise the bar in terms of expectations going forward.
This anniversary is an opportunity to take stock of the results and impacts of the GEF International waters portfolio after 20 years and assess future challenges to raise the bar for the next 20 years.
Unless the government manages to increase tax revenues through growth rather than rate increases, and unless Congress is just willing to raise the bar on borrowing over and over again, it is now a given that the U.S. has some soul searching to do, Euro-style.
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Several analysts last week said that iPhone 5 shipments might fall below street expectations this quarter, and Samsung just announced its new Galaxy smartphone that, while not groundbreaking, provides enough interesting features to raise the bar on what Apple needs to do in the next version of the iPhone.
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Registered capital is the default metric for financial risk assessment here (a very poor tool, but it is what it is), and the government typically includes requirements related to industry experience in an attempt to raise the bar slightly for market entry, thereby keeping out the inexperienced tyros that would be likely to fail.
Further steps would be taken to "stamp out" bullying and Ofsted would be asked to "raise the bar" on what is considered acceptable behaviour.
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"Michael's greatest skill has been able to motivate people to come with him and raise the bar to create the best car that he could drive and get the success they wish to have, " said Stewart, who was world champion three times.
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