set the bar

Apple's App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch has set the bar high: The company recently announced it had exceeded a billion downloads.

If you set the bar too high and you already feel as if you're slipping, don't berate yourself.

Without meaning to set the bar too low, one hopes that US voters are more grown-up than some of their commentators.

``What a match! '' Clijsters said on the court afterward. ``I think we set the bar pretty high for ourselves for the rest of the year. ''

Set the bar too high, and a planet that meets the strict criteria may not emerge at all.

Chinalco has set the bar high, particularly with the price it is paying for a stake in Rio's Escondida copper mine in Chile.

Colleges "have set the bar pretty low for competitors" through a lack of competition, he says.

Although provinces cap the amount they pay for generic drugs at a fixed fraction of the branded price, they have set the bar too high.

I intend to set the bar to see.

"The F. D. A. set the bar too low on the initial approval, " said Dr. Steven Nissen, chairman of cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic.

We mustn't set the bar that high. New code, new drivers, there will be problems and I'd rather take them and then improve them.

But they clearly set the bar too high and shareholders are likely to accuse them of miscalculation or worse.

This is because that we tend to set the bar too high and want everything to be perfect.

For years it set the bar exam pass-rate at around 3%, though it has recently increased it to 25%.

it set the bar way up there, to a height I'm guaranteed never to reach in my lifetime.

I decided to set the bar very low and make up lies about myself that make me sound lame.

Speaking of girl anthems, this '80s version set the bar high when it came to putting an ex in his place.

We're betting big on video, and we intend to set the bar on mobile video calling.

But there's no reason to set the bar so low.

We women are so hard on ourselves and oh my, how high we set the bar!

When Google interviews employees, Lecinski said they set the bar very high.

I just want to set the bar high because we are in a competition for the future.

this would set the bar, engage in on the yacht wedding.

The upscale department store Matsuzakaya set the bar high, pricing a sundry of lavish items at 40 million yen, or about $484, 241.

Leaf insists we have set the bar too low for what we think children and adults with autism can do.

But Rudd has already set the bar very high.

But Mr. Erwin and some other experts say that is not always a good thing for patients because it can set the bar too low for drug companies.

Set the bar high: Make people Ooh and Aah.

"We had set the bar too low, " Paine says.

If an average student, don't set the bar so high she is sure to fail.

Clearly, if we set the bar low and do little work, that's a pace that we can maintain indefinitely.

The school set the bar higher for providing healthy lunches,

He set the bar just above the stars