" 'Such a low bar' Pompeo is arguably the most experienced of the national security Cabinet, the former national security official said, "but it's such a low bar.
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I view that as a low bar to rate moves.
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This is coming from D.C., so that's a low bar.
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I was going to say, that's a low bar, girl.
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There isn't a low bar for Donald Trump comments anymore.
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Unnamed: These guys have a pretty low bar for wonderfulness.
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That has created a new low bar for U.S. rates .
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And you do have the low bar we have now.
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Sure, Nicki set a low bar with her IG fumble.
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By that low bar, Zuckerberg certainly seems to have succeeded.
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Many people can't even reach the low bar of not throwing
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He was certainly more presidential but that's a pretty low bar.
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If anything, he barely, just barely, cleared an incredibly low bar.
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And while that's a low bar, The Stand has its moments.
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The current rules set a low bar for submitting a proposal.
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Of course, the low bar set by analysts may also help.
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Survival, it must be said, is a low bar to clear.
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Of course, the low bar set by analysts may also help.
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This is setting a low bar for the 2020 election cycle.
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This extremely low bar makes hospitals very attractive to cyber criminals.
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Mr. Trump can clear their low bar by being unspectacularly awful.
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Its measure of success — preventing death — is arguably a low bar.
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This is a low bar and you can step over it.
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For a nightcap, head to the perpetual midnight of Low Bar.
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And New Hampshire can thank Iowa for that incredibly low bar.
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That's a low bar to clear, but it's a necessary one.
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Acting presidential for 15 minutes is, admittedly, a very low bar.
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Trump seemed to pass that test, clearing his own low bar.
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But when you think about it, isn't that a pretty low bar?
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But if you take a second look, that's a pretty low bar.
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With that, you have got a pretty low bar to hop over.
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WILSON: WELL, THAT IS BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT A VERY LOW BAR YOURSELF.
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It's also, as Shadi Hamid pointed out on Twitter, a low bar.
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The low bar of expectations and complacency are exactly how he wins.
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East 54th Street gets a 1/10 for setting the low bar.
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There is no low bar for entry on the London property market.
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" I said, "You're at the top, but it's a really low bar.
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No, but ... KS: It's a low bar then if that's the case.
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That might be a low bar, but the Mets have cleared it.
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Four Republican votes is a low bar to avoid a sham trial.
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"There's a low bar, but you probably shouldn't wear shorts," he says.
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I mean, that's a pretty low bar; it's like they weren't assholes.
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Granted, that's a low bar, since few politicians have ever supported them.
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Happily, the film clears that low bar with some room to spare.
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How much should we applaud Facebook for raising their own pitifully low bar?
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He was probably the most Libertarian justice, although that&aposs a low bar.
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The royals set a pretty low bar when it comes to social skills.
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Here's a sample of some headlines: Is this the low bar we've reached?
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Where masculinity is all sort of wrapped up ... It's kind of low bar.
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A few users highlighted the extremely low bar for straight men in Hollywood.
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Sure, it's more than any debate in 2016, but that's a low bar.
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Season 2 is better, but it had an extremely low bar to clear.
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Although toddlers not in prison is a very low bar for our country.
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It was a low bar, Mark; they didn't do a very good job.
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The criminal law is a poor measure — a very low bar — for a president.
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But those better-than-expected results represent companies stepping over a very low bar.
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Still, that is a very low bar these days when it comes to Facebook.
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Expectations for guidance are "a low bar," giving Apple room to surprise, analysts say.
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"More interesting patrols" is a low bar for Destiny 2, but it's still important.
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To be fair, that was a pretty low bar to clear at the time.
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That sets a low bar to get to their forecast target by year-end.
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But by comparing itself with the Arab world, Morocco is setting a low bar.
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The efforts appear to be paying off, though improvement is against a low bar.
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But Wednesday night's debate did not clear even the low bar that Perez set.
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We are once again faced with the problem of the very, very low bar.
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By the standards of corporate America — a low bar — it moved swiftly and decisively.
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That would mean that regulators would have a very low bar for side effects.
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Some schools report low bar passage rates and job placement rates below 50 percent.
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That's true, but it's also a very low bar for any cause of celebration.
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Yet he nevertheless remains Italy's most trusted party leader (although that is a low bar).
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It may not be $3.37 an hour, but that's a pretty low bar to clear.
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Most technical memes are less enjoyable than their inspiration (a low bar to be sure).
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Some said the first quarter of 2017 had set a particularly low bar for improvement.
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Let's be clear, because I want to be clear with people, it's a low bar.
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Its message was appealing, but there was a low bar to entry for the field.
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With this low bar, many PRC goods and services can be regarded as Canadian products.
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My expectations for Trump were fairly low … but he hasn't met even that low bar.
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That's a low bar, but we've cleared it and that is real, if macabre, progress.
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As one of French theater's staples, "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme" easily clears this admittedly low bar.
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Rather, it's that we currently have a president who can't clear this very low bar.
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Because of that relatively low bar for functional success, they offer an opportunity for experimentation.
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That was a low bar to begin with, and Biden cleared it and then some.
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But it was also cloyingly sweet and not that smoky — a low bar for barbecue.
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Arizona Summit can't blame the aptitude of its students for its low bar passage rate.
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You know, I like him better than Xi, but it's kind of a low bar.
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But this was a classic of its kind, an over-performance against a very low bar.
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Sixty dollars, suggesting a frighteningly low bar for any malicious actor looking to manipulate people online.
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A gain of just two seats would give them control, which sounds like a low bar.
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That is a low bar, given that it currently holds over two-thirds of the seats.
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That's a low bar, and the history of "iconic" debate moments lowers it to ankle height.
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But it was certainly more fun than sorting laundry the normal way, an admittedly low bar.
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Not only is that a pathetically low bar, many do not seem to be clearing it.
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That's a low bar, because the US guarantees zero days of paid sick leave to anyone.
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To be sure, the companies are being rated on a very low bar this earnings season.
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It seems a shame, though, that they might be satisfied with clearing such a low bar.
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With such a low bar, there wasn't much of a pathway for campaigns to distinguish themselves.
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" In 2010, Bill Gates told Fortune that giving away half of one's fortune was a "low bar.
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Clinton told CNN on Friday that Trump had set a "low bar" regarding violence at political events.
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So, there&aposs a low bar for success here, just as long as he doesn&apost hurl.
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"I feel like that's a pretty low bar to cross that Securus has failed at," Kajstura says.
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That's a low bar, but it's also one I've never had the urge to step over before.
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So a 3D facial biometric would represent — at very least — a security upgrade on that low bar.
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Here are nine movies new to Netflix this month that managed to pass the very low bar.
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Between the lines: European officials tell me they're setting a low bar for their meetings with Trump.
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Simply avoiding arrest on a United States visit might seem a low bar for a world leader.
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Critics say the award sets a low bar for African democracy, rewarding leaders merely for leaving office.
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Now they are back with the sluggish "Murder Mystery," which does not even clear that low bar.
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When the two do meet face to face, Trump has set a low bar for working together.
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"Sleepless," directed by Baran bo Odar, sets a low bar for itself, and then trips over it.
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"There's a very low bar for positive surprises to feed back into the U.S. dollar," he said.
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Further reading: Trump's "hoax" tweet has set a ridiculously low bar for his nominees on climate change
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The vote was more peaceful and orderly than others in recent memory, but that is a low bar.
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The first, intimated here by Greg Sargent, is that the media is setting a low bar for Trump.
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Although the quality of play was obviously higher than previous formats, it was a low bar to clear.
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First, the "low bar was met," and there were no detailed offsets and no revenue or deficit numbers.
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Of course, saying that Civil War is better than Batman v Superman is setting an awfully low bar.
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With this very low bar set, here are a few thoughts on the components of the PlayStation Classic.
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We like the setup of (1) a low bar from the market while (2) management is aiming high.
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Feeling uncomfortable is not assault, and some women seem to have a low bar for what constitutes harassment.
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But allowing for the low bar, March and April brought a lot of good news for Donald Trump.
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The current standard, she says, is a low bar that could be easily met by most retirement savers.
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Cook's popularity isn't hurt by the fact that his competitors in Silicon Valley have set a low bar.
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So I had to recalibrate my expectations, which meant I started setting a very low bar for first dates.
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Again, just because it's a low bar in Silicon Valley doesn't mean you're not funny and stuff like that.
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But I have a low bar for this sort of movie, personally, so if you're like me, let's go.
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Former gymnast Makayla Thrush said in court that Geddert pushed her into a low bar, causing career-ending injuries.
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If the startups in your delegation meet that low bar, your next step is to email our events team.
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" Cuban added, "I guess it's a low bar when you do what you say you were going to do.
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"If the bar for success in this summit is war or peace, it's a pretty low bar," he said.
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Buy Royal Caribbean Cruises calls — poor sentiment and muted expectations set a low bar for an outsized earnings move.
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The Trump administration is setting a low bar for President Donald Trump's Monday summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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The reasons Mr. Evans gave for striking the most recent jurors, they said, cleared the Supreme Court's low bar.
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If that feels like a low bar for legitimizing a coup, then Mr. Maduro has only himself to blame.
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"If the Senate blesses this historically low bar, we will invite the impeachment of every future president," McConnell said.
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It may be a low bar, but given Mr. Trump's demonstrated contempt for ideals of justice, it's still something.
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Don't be so fast to judge him, at least according to the low bar that football sometimes sets for behavior.
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With a low bar to entry and almost no hierarchy, new Pentecostal churches matched the entrepreneurial spirit of the times.
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Mr Trump has set a low bar for success in Hanoi, but Mr Kim will surely have to offer something.
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That's better than the Phillies have done, which is admittedly a low bar; their leadoff hitters are at .140/.138/.
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It's true that for once, Trump was not telling an all-out lie, but that is an extraordinarily low bar.
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It is a low bar but, 100 days from the election, perhaps the biggest reset Mrs Clinton can hope for.
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Melania Trump comes to this fateful moment in her husband's administration with a relatively low bar of expectations to clear.
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Some "news analyses" were already laying the foundation, setting a low bar for the G.O.P. nominee while warning that Mrs.
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Sheinkopf is among those who offered a comparatively low bar by which to judge Sanders's success in the primary, however.
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And while trite may be preferable to embarrassing anecdotes from the bride and groom's childhood, that's an awfully low bar.
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"We've set a really remarkably inclusive, and frankly low bar throughout the campaigns ... and I'm proud of that," Perez said.
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As I wrote in my hands-on, creating a competent smartwatch might seem like a low bar for Fossil to clear.
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That all sounds like a pretty low bar, but it's still one that competing operating systems have consistently failed to clear.
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"All the money was spent on program priorities, and we know where it all went" may seem like a low bar.
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A low bar for earnings after the December sell-off could also be a catalyst for growth stocks, according to Bell.
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All in all, not a bad set of skills for the fairly low bar of walking around five miles a day.
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Or at least more optimistic than they have been at any point in the process (which is a fairly low bar).
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He received plaudits for clearing the low bar of not repeating the erratic behavior he displayed on a previous earnings call.
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"Freedom from debt seems a low bar of accomplishment, yet it's an elusive goal for many early adults," the report said.
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This low bar inadvertently exposes the regrettable truth: Just as civic engagement has declined, so too have standards for civic literacy.
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"Don't sexually assault women" (or, for that matter, "Don't get a girl pregnant") is an awfully low bar for acceptable behavior.
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"The thinking — ironically in retrospect — was create a low bar to make the tent as big as possible," Gunther told me.
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All of the schools have been on rocky ground in recent years because of declining enrollment and low bar passage rates.
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Although former Mayor Michael Bloomberg marginally improved on his disastrous debate debut last week, that's an awfully low bar to clear.
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That is a low bar, given the piddling returns on one-month Treasury bills, which now yield less than 1 percent.
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Levitt said there is a "pretty low bar" in the legislation for states to be able to waive the ObamaCare protections.
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The choices the president makes deserve to be held to the highest possible standard, not a low bar of minimal acceptability.
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And considering the myriad other ways queer representation falls short in Hollywood, Rough Night had a pretty low bar to clear.
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BLANKFEIN: I THINK RELATIVE TO THE LOW BAR THAT HAS BEEN SET OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS, BECAUSE OF THE CAPITAL -- THEY NEED TO ACCUMULATE CAP ON ALL OF THESE – WE HAVEN'T -- HASN'T BEEN EXACTLY THE GROWTHIEST TIME, THE RESULTS WERE GOOD, NO DOUBT ABOUT IT, BUT GOOD RELATIVE TO THE LOW BAR OF THE LAST FEW YEARS.
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Apple's Mac OS products have been a low bar to hit for Microsoft, as Apple's products have been stagnant in recent years.
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And even when he doesn't meet that low bar, at least one person is still shrieking at the top of her lungs.
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One good thing that you have going for you is that it's an extraordinarily low bar, and we'll talk about that later.
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We've become accustomed to nastier rhetoric in this election, but last night's contest set a new low bar for general election debates.
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This is a quote about you, the reason you're doing better than Bill de Blasio, but I think that's a low bar.
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True, that's a pretty low bar to clear, when you're out-classing, like, the Resident Evil movies and 1995's Mortal Kombat.
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With its encrypted phones and messages to anti-tracking in browsers, Apple is jumping over an admittedly low bar on privacy issues.
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The guidance creates "a very low bar for the rest of the year," Jefferies analyst Atul Goyal wrote in a client note.
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The whole shebang is relatively painless ("Innocuous!" would be my pull quote), a sadly low bar given summer's already low cinematic expectations.
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A low bar, and not one that all tech companies have cleared so far, but a better step than nothing at all.
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It's a low, low bar, but some of the more truly vile anti-trans stuff has been excised from this recorded special.
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That is a very low bar, much lower than what Mueller had to establish to obtain a search warrant for Manafort's home.
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Forming an impeachment "inquiry" is setting a new low bar for an unconstitutional and politically motivated government attack against an American president.
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But I think we're pretty well fully-priced based on these very positive low-bar deals that we have around the globe.
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"It seems to be a very, very low bar," said Lance from The Serfs in a phone call with Mashable on Wednesday.
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This bodes extremely well for my competition squat since my high bar is typically 15-23% less than my low bar squat.
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You'd think Hugin, a wealthy businessman and former chairman of Donald Trump's New Jersey campaign, would clear that incredibly low bar, right?
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The nation's largest LGBTQ civil rights organization, however, said that Trump is setting a "low bar" by not overturning his predecessor's order.
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Being more attractive than Twitter may sound like a low bar, but in these distractible times, it feels like a genuine achievement.
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The test seems simple enough and sets a pretty low bar, but still, far too many movies in 2018 don't make the cut.
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"We believe MitoGel has a low bar for approval, as there are no non-surgical therapies currently available," Cowen analyst Boris Peaker said.
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Sure, Trump has a low bar here, but for a book called Think Big and Kick Ass, this is some refreshing real talk.
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Still, with that low bar of expectations set, there are a few places where the TicWatch E2 cleared it with some pleasant surprises.
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It may seem like I'm overstating the new Dot's sound quality, but that's largely because the prior model set such a low bar.
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"If neither of those things do go wrong, then you have a low bar going into next earnings season, which could be good."
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Americans sent the 2628 members of Congress to live up to their own promises but perhaps they cannot meet even that low bar.
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Between the lines: Small systems like solar lanterns are emblematic of the low bar international organizations have set for solving global energy poverty.
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Mike Cernovich's campaign against Seder shows how setting a low bar for fireable offenses will lead to the silencing of important progressive voices.
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All Siemian has to do is clear that extremely low bar to keep the Broncos in the thick of the AFC title race.
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Why it matters: It might seem like a low bar, but it's better than waiting until the last minute, like Congress usually does.
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This is a grotesquely low bar by which to measure a non-Muslim's engagement with Islam, but it is in fact the bar.
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Even if the government manages to set a low bar for constitutional review, it still might not be able to reinstitute the ban.
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"The 4th District needs a new moral leader, one who unequivocally rejects anti-Semitism, racism, white nationalism, it's such a low bar," Scholten said.
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Maybe that's a low bar, but after the disaster of the George W. Bush years, merely avoiding a catastrophe does seem like an achievement.
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Establishing gender-based solidarity as the noblest goal for our society, or its absence as our most tragic failing, is a depressingly low bar.
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While Trump benefits from lowered expectations, his recent behavior suggests even crossing a low bar on expectations may be more difficult than it sounds.
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Officials say they are better than the regime of Bashar al-Assad, Syria's dictator, or the rebels who fought him—a miserably low bar.
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Of course, anyone who's spent time reading replies to LeBron or The Warriors can tell you that that's a pretty low bar for discourse.
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So when you say Mark looks so good, it was because it was such a low, low bar that it was hard not to.
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First, you need to jump this low bar: your company must be less than two years old and have raised less than $2.5 million.
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Apple's iCloud cleared the low bar set by the embarrassing MobileMe, but, it wasn't close to a total do-over, at least at first.
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He has a low bar to clear to be seen as competent in the job, and lots of room for surprise to the upside.
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Apple's iCloud cleared the low bar set by the embarrassing MobileMe, but it wasn't close to a total do-over, at least at first.
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The American Bar Association this week announced that it was putting Arizona Summit Law School on probation due to egregiously low bar exam passage rates.
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What's more devastating is the unbelievably low bar being set for abusive men, who apparently need to do literally nothing to earn back their spot.
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Snap not only fell behind historical antecedents' results but fell under the already low bar that investors set for it, regarding sequential revenue growth consistency.
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That means Haley will have a very low bar to clear: preventing those conflicts from getting worse while avoiding getting ensnared in new diplomatic crises.
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The low bar of the Clinton example When Clinton was impeached, he enjoyed protection from some Republicans despite the defection of a number of Democrats.
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For Clinton, her tone was better than Trump's (but that's a low bar), but her knowledge, especially on foreign policy issues, made clear her strengths.
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If a candidate is predicted to struggle in a debate but ultimately vaults over the low bar, surrogates and analysts will proclaim an upset win.
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Maggie is never a horrible person, although qualifying as the most likeable non-Gary Cole character in this film is clearing a pretty low bar.
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Well, for one, they're from a recognizable brand, which pretty much put Apple's EarPods to shame by default—though that's a low bar to clear.
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Last year's poor results for S&P 500 companies overall, including four straight quarters of earnings decline, set a low bar for companies to overcome.
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The low bar for criminals pushing dodgy drugs in Africa is just one reason why the continent needs to up its game in medicines regulation.
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And the clothes definitely came out much neater than when I fold my own laundry (also, I am ashamed to admit, a relatively low bar).
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And yet 66 percent of actively managed large-company stock funds were unable to exceed even that low bar, according to the SPIVA U.S. Scorecard.
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Schools thus far have been allowed to avoid being held accountable, although at least two have been placed on probation for low bar passage rates.
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Tech companies got a brief reprieve after Mark Zuckerberg cleared the low bar for his two days of testimony on Capitol Hill earlier this month.
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And it's actually a low bar compared with what other developed nations offer: 35 weeks in Canada, 44 weeks in Germany, 70 weeks in Norway.
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He's easily one of the best legislators in Congress today, and by far the best senator South Carolina has ever produced (admittedly a low bar).
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According to a transcript, when asked how many law schools had lost their accreditation for low bar passage rates, the A.B.A.'s answer was none.
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The consensus opinion on Jennifer's Body is that it was only trying to be fun trash, and that it didn't even clear that low bar.
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No system will completely eliminate the problems we face when it comes to transportation security, but we can surpass the low bar set by the TSA.
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I give LG an "A" for effort on organizing the setup and adjustment stuff — it's much better than on my Pioneer, which is a low bar.
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It's depressing that denying government agencies use of a technology because it might infringe on civil rights is the (low) bar for praise in Silicon Valley.
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We're not used to seeing the usually cocky rap artist resort to such a low bar as to play the cultural guilt card to solicit help.
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It is time for Americans to send a STRONG message to the anarchist Democrats that we will no longer tolerate their disgusting, corrupt, low-bar antics.
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Whether or not those speeds would ever match the L train is up for debate, but what exists above the ground now sets a low bar.
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While we can joke all we want about the "Fair and Balanced" motto, it's a very low bar to simply give your audience decent health information.
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I feel like working at my previous toxic job set a low bar for interactions with the boss, so my initial impulse is basically to grovel.
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The Democratic National Committee purposefully set a low bar to qualify for those debates, in an attempt to be fair to the huge field of candidates.
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It's an embarrassingly low bar for a party that purported to care far more about ethics in government when Barack Obama sat in the Oval Office.
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Vowing to spend whatever it took to eclipse the Knicks — a low bar — he built a bonfire of money at the corner of Flatbush and Atlantic.
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But to congratulate Trump on mainstreaming bigotry through his No. 2 White House official rather than his No. 1 staff pick sets an appallingly low bar.
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That's an awfully low bar (the average British person eats about twice that much meat), and people who eat more meat will have an even bigger footprint.
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"He's the best president ever on marijuana," said Angell of the Marijuana Majority, acknowledging that there's "an extremely low bar" for how presidents do on this issue.
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"Freedom from debt, to some, seems like a low bar of accomplishment, but it's just an elusive goal for many of the early adults today," Margeson says.
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"Trump has a very low bar — just go onstage and don't look completely unhinged," said Ryan Williams, a GOP strategist who worked on Jeb Bush's presidential campaign.
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Its makers knew that the 90-sol lifetime they had promised for Opportunity and Spirit was conservative, a low bar to ensure some kudos for "mission accomplished".
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One of Clinton allies' biggest concerns is that Trump will be judged against an unusually low bar, while Clinton will be judged against an impossibly high one.
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Consider the incredibly low bar Dalmia sets for the nominee: Despite what you may have heard from hyperventilating liberals, DeVos is among Trump's more sober Cabinet choices.
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It's unclear what, exactly, the new name of the subdivision would be, but it shouldn't be too hard—"Swastika Acres" is a pretty low bar to clear.
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While Congress has repeatedly failed to act on real border security, changes to low-bar asylum laws and devaluing illegal immigration, the crisis has gotten exponentially worse.
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"That is a pretty low bar to cross: to say that we are not going to sell off our public lands is not saying much," Saeger said.
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"The Bank of Canada set a pretty low bar in terms of its second-quarter growth numbers," said Royce Mendes, a senior economist at CIBC Capital Markets.
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It doesn't exactly scream feminism, but, as I've said, the Bechdel Test is a low bar and the Sex and the City movie happens to pass it.
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But 12 weeks is actually a low bar compared with what other developed nations offer: 35 weeks in Canada, 44 weeks in Germany, 70 weeks in Norway.
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In fact, all brokers had to do in the past was make sure that an investment was "suitable," which turned out to be a pretty low bar.
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He's also viewed as far less hawkish than his predecessor — he is a hostage negotiator, after all — but that is a low bar given Bolton's aggressive tendencies.
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That is a low bar, said Michael Postow, an oncologist at New York's Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center whose research is supported by Bristol Myers and other companies.
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That's an admittedly low bar—which tells you all you need to know about Wear OS watches—but stay tuned to see whether the Fossil Sport clears it.
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Manufacturers are convinced that people will happily use at least partially autonomous cars when they're proven to be safer than human drivers, but that's a pretty low bar.
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That's a low bar for what counts as poverty, and some development experts argue we should be using a global poverty line of $10-15 a day instead.
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But really, the best lesson you can take out of the past days of Wolfenstein commentary is that most people aren't Nazis, which is a depressingly low bar.
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I'm not giving him props for clearing some absurdly low bar, like failing to fall asleep during his own speech or not stripping nude and streaking through Congress.
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For starters, the EV Hummer will easily clear the microscopically low bar for fuel efficiency its diesel predecessor set with 13 miles per gallon combined city and highway.
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It's true that Trump's plan does go further than most Republicans have dared go on the matter of paid family leave (though that's admittedly a pretty low bar).
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The Fed hopes to raise its benchmark policy rate to 3.5% by 2020, according to its most recent projections, clearing that low bar, but with little to spare.
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Last year's school management plan included the expectation that teachers give at least one sustainability-focused lesson every quarter—but several teachers described that as a low bar.
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However, Oliveri said that he did not advise chasing the euro much lower because of the "low bar" for the euro zone economy to surprise on the upside.
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Earnings in 2019 are setting a low bar to clear in 2020, paving the way for stocks to continue their record-setting rally, according to Wall Street strategists.
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So, while that's a pretty low bar when it comes to sexual contact, it means you're not going to get it from the subway or a toilet seat.
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She shows off her flexibility—in this skill, rarely done on the low bar, her hands are twisted outward in a way most normal people can't even do.
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Maybe I am setting a low bar, but I admire him for being someone who can always take it, and that quality will be sorely missed at Facebook.
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At Decatur, to be "Life of the Party" (which is the instantly forgettable title of this almost equally unmemorable campus comedy) is to clear a pretty low bar.
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Given that we also grant consent for root canals, gaining mere permission seems, to me, an awfully low bar for what should be the joys of physical sexuality.
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It easily clears the low bar of jukebox success to stand alongside the dark original musicals that have been sustaining the best hopes of Broadway in recent years.
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Even if the ESRB wanted to avoid a judgement call on the general ethics of loot boxes—a low bar, mind you—this seems like a very reasonable ask.
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If so, he set a dangerously low bar for the level of legal compliance expected from a presidential campaign and raised the value of claiming ignorance of the law.
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The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals applied this low bar in 2015 in a case involving a Colorado boy with autism whose parents had removed him from public school.
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Identifying the leading candidates on the issue is a pretty low bar to clear, and only a few champions for privacy on both sides of the aisle have emerged.
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Drawing on ProPublica's data, Farid and Dressel found the algorithm predicted reoffenses roughly 65 percent of the time — a low bar, given that roughly 45 percent of defendants reoffend.
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Pichai outperformed Zuck by any measure because Google is demoing and shipping privacy features at a faster and more ambitious rate than Facebook—a decidedly low bar to clear.
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"There's a very low bar for positive surprises to feed back into the U.S. dollar," said Mark McCormick, North American head of FX strategy at TD Securities in Toronto.
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This is a very low bar to set, but at least Trump has not actively alienated his own party's most powerful members in Congress the same way Carter did.
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Saying "no" will tell us that if Kim refuses to jump over this low bar, he is unlikely to give up the crown jewel, which is his nuclear program.
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The FCC sets a pretty low bar compared with other countries, which often strictly limit the amount that political campaigns can spend and when they can air their ads.
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Nowadays any kid can make anything — movies or music, but back then, it seemed like there was such a low bar of entry into this way of telling stories.
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While it's true that the country has generally expected a little more from an incoming president, this election year has always been the story of a very low bar.
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The real problem for Clinton is that capturing the votes of people who bother to become passionately invested in a presidential primary campaign is actually an incredibly low bar.
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"I am pleased that Governor Abbott is engaged in a way that is certainly more substantive than President Trump — but that is such a low bar," Democratic Texas Rep.
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Mr Biden, who has led by a healthy margin throughout, gave one of his better showings—though, given how poorly he had performed previously, that sets a low bar.
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Even measured against an already low bar in the movie industry — where female-led films about women's lives often struggle to get off the ground — this does signal progress.
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This is a low bar to clear: The House of Representatives marshaled extensive and damning testimony against Mr. Trump, despite his best efforts to keep it from coming out.
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Little action was expected at Wednesday's U.S.-China Comprehensive Economic Dialogue, but despite the low bar, the event still yielded lackluster results — an indication of further bilateral strains ahead.
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Struggle or repeat even the performance he gave in the second debate -- barely clearing what was then a decidedly low bar -- and those whispers start getting a lot louder.
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Even measured against an already low bar in the movie industry — where female-led films about women's lives often struggle to get off the ground — this does signal progress.
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That if all they were seeking to do is increase the number of privileged women who become partners at VC firms as VC currently exists, that's an incredibly low bar.
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"Claiming [LGBTQ] ally status for not overturning the progress of your predecessor is a rather low bar," says Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign, in a press release.
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It is a low bar; but being demonstrably sane, competent and able to refrain from publicly envisaging her opponent's murder is now at the heart of Mrs Clinton's sales pitch.
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It was removed from the Code of Points because it was a "belly beat" move, which is when the gymnast hits their hips into the low bar to gain momentum.
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The credible fear interview has long been a relatively low bar; asylum seekers must simply establish that their fear of danger if they return to their home country is plausible.
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Herndon The inverse of the Trump screwing-things-up phenomenon is that it creates this weird low bar, where he's praised by Washington for doing things that are pretty normal.
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Even if a migrant fails the "credible fear" test, which has a very low bar, that person can still demand to see an immigration judge to have the claim heard.
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"Because sabotaging the '68 peace efforts seems like a Nixon-like thing to do, we are willing to accept a very low bar of evidence on this," Mr. Nichter said.
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And while this might sound like a low bar, they were actually arguments about the law — not the weird fantasy rules that dominate similar debates in Congress and mainstream press.
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That anyone hoping to be the nation's top law enforcement officer would hold those positions should, of course, go without saying, but Mr. Trump has set a pretty low bar.
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Dick's Sporting Goods – The sporting goods retailer was upgraded to "positive" from "neutral" at Susquehanna Financial, given the improved weather and a "low bar" in terms of comparable sales improvement.
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Trump's dystopian description of the economy — echoing his stark Inaugural address decrying "American carnage" — may be intended to set a low bar from which to measure the success of his presidency.
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Donald Trump set such a low bar during the 2016 election that one Democratic candidate is pledging not to use stolen or hacked information from foreign actors in the 2020 race.
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But avoiding WWIII is a dismally low bar to pass, and the fact that the killing didn't spark a wider conflict is a poor measure of the wisdom of the operation.
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If you want to exhibit in Startup Alley as part of a country pavilion, your delegation startups must meet one low bar: they have to qualify as Pre-Series A companies.
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And from 2019 auditors must go above and beyond the low bar they have historically set themselves, which is a pass or fail "opinion" on whether financial statements obey accounting rules.
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It's a very low bar to note that he never was caught on tape saying that he loves kissing women and grabbing them and, hey, they never seem to say stop.
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And for a while, so was the expectation leading up to the first presidential debate: It was Trump's chance to prove he could reach the very low bar of seeming presidential.
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"In the roughly 21 months since he took the oath of office, Trump has sunk far below the already-low bar he set for himself in his ugly campaign," Clinton writes.
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The vagueness in the existing rule has allowed most schools to avoid being held accountable, although at least two, both in California, were placed on probation for low bar passage rates.
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The other thing that put me off about Jordan has held up better than the primary one, although we have already established that this is a very low bar to clear.
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Apple also gets points for including text discouraging users from relying on its fertility window predictions for contraception—a low bar, but one that some women's health apps fail to clear.
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"Claiming ally status for not overturning the progress of your predecessor is a rather low bar," Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign, told the New York Times in a statement.
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"We are heading into Apple's earnings report with a higher level of investor interest relative to recent history given the confluence of softer macro but also low bar of expectations," they said.
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And while investors are setting a low bar for earnings, one trader says there are three Dow stocks that have the potential to shake up the market in the very near future.
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Given that only 5 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs are women, that's a low bar ... and indicative of how little influence women have over the tons of plastic flowing into the ocean.
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But the precedent with religious liberty has a pretty low bar for the state to regulate and a particularly high bar for someone to claim an exemption, particularly at the state level.
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"Honeywell typically sets a low bar for its outlook, building in some conservativeness and opportunity for beats during the course of the year," RBC Capital Markets Deane Dray wrote in a note.
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The Old World Order obviously set a low bar for going to war, which was convenient during a period of imperial expansion but dangerous when the imperial powers turned on one another.
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Verge colleagues have told me they can't tell the difference between Force Touch and Apple's mechanical trackpads, but I think this is only because the company is clearing such a low bar.
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" A few years ago, when a student in the audience at one of her law-school appearances told her that she was "the hip Justice," Kagan cracked, "Must be a low bar.
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There's lots of low-quality care and experiences in health care, so I think there's a low bar at some level in terms of sometimes what we're trying to accomplish for people.
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But they did often create messier public debates, and enough material to meet the very low bar for legal arguments that officers felt threatened and that their use of force was justified.
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His 2013 HBO special "Oh My God" was praised for its frank acknowledgment of rape culture (acknowledgment may be a low bar, but it's all we had in a pre-Cosby landscape).
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"It was a low bar to be a decent guy, but as a distressed investor, you buy things that are not doing well," said Mr. Raynor, who now runs a consulting business.
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In Algeria, Abdelaziz Bouteflika was 82 when he resigned, having barely been seen in public since a 2013 stroke, setting an all-new low bar for a dictator's interaction with his regime.
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That may be a low bar for access, but it is an important one nonetheless, said Jessica Baldwin-Philippi, an assistant professor at Fordham University who studies digital media and political campaigns.
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It tidily sums up everything you've known about sports broadcasts and television in general: broadcast companies think you are idiots and specifically train their talent to tailor their work to that low bar.
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First, like many people watching where I was overseas, I admit I was shocked by the exceptionally high bar put before one candidate and the exceptionally low bar put before the other candidate.
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Yes, Tim Cook jumps over the low bar on privacy set by his Silicon Valley competitors but it's becoming clear Cupertino still has work to do — and it seems like they know it.
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The Phoenix Suns are still trying to reach the 20-victory mark and could reach that low-bar milestone if they can defeat the Memphis Grizzlies for the third straight time on Monday.
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Whatever moral objections they might have had, there were obvious political reasons to hold off—and treating holding off on rolling back LGBT wins as a political win is a very low bar.
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The Academy only requires movies to have a qualifying run of one-week to contend for cinema's highest honor, a low bar that Netflix easily clears with limited-release engagements in select cities.
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"The extremely low bar for establishing credible fear is ripe for fraud and abuse," said Michael Bars, a spokesman for United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency that evaluates asylum claims.
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Now, the government only had to meet a very low bar to find Manafort in breach of the agreement — basically, they just had to come to the good-faith conclusion that he lied.
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Technologically speaking, the efforts of Facebook and Google and Amazon represent the forefront of A.I. research, while crudely scripted social bots must merely clear the low bar of passing for an angry stranger.
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Fourth, increasingly, the drugs that are developed, even by large companies, are geared toward narrow, niche and orphan populations, where benefit-risk is a low bar because there are no other products available.
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But not making inappropriate comments may be a low bar for the president of the United States, said Gene Sperling, former national economic advisor under President Bill Clinton and later President Barack Obama.
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" That's a low bar, to be sure, but for some Log Cabin members who witnessed Pat Buchanan's virulently anti-gay speech at the 22015 Republican convention, Trump's willingness to say the term "L.
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It's a low bar, given that sites that have numerous editorial and ethical problems can still get a passing mark, but it does give readers a rough sense of what not to read.
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"The Clinton campaign feels like she is going to go into the debates with the heightened expectations that normally saddle an incumbent president while Trump will have a low bar to clear," Pace explains.
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"The combination of negative investor sentiment, the potential for a Services acceleration in June, and a low bar for September guidance keep us positively biased into earnings," Huberty said in a July 22 note.
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Bombardier spokesman Mike Nadolski said the ITC's decision was expected given the "low bar" for Boeing at this early stage, while a company executive recently dismissed suggestions that the probe could hurt CSeries sales.
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It's not like Wayne is traditionally a paragon of enlightened gender views (despite his bona fides as cunnilingus champion), but even setting a low bar, "Love Me" is an unnecessarily gross and vicious track.
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Goldman Sachs reported first-quarter earnings Tuesday morning that while crossing a low bar also saw a 47 percent year-over-year drop in fixed income, currencies and commodities, or FICC, to $1.66 billion.
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Still, he got positive reviews from some pundits because as long as Trump didn't defecate on stage or pull out his penis he would clear the low bar that had been set for him.
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But Trump's speech—halting and dour when it didn't have the tone of a south Florida real estate video—was good only when judged against the shamefully low bar he has set for himself.
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Apple currently bundles its EarPods with all new iPhone purchases making them the baseline by which we must measure "good enough" — an admittedly low bar that's nevertheless deemed acceptable by millions of iPhone owners.
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"It was a pretty low bar, but he stuck to the script in Tokyo, Seoul and Beijing," said William Choong, senior fellow for Asia-Pacific security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).
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But for a company like Facebook, which certainly clears that very low bar, it is still not clear what level of security is high enough for it to fulfill its responsibility to its customers.
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Ms. Williamson's campaign said Wednesday that she needed just 6,300 more contributions from unique donors to get in, and Mr. Messam would need to register 2.63 percent — a low bar — in two more polls.
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But it's hard to see how the momentum Bloomberg had built through his heavy ad spending wasn't slowed considerably by a performance that slid waaaaay under what was a very low bar of expectations.
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In 21.5, North Carolina set a new low bar for climate change denial: Its governor allowed a law to pass that blocked state agencies from considering the best science on sea level rise in policymaking.
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Netflix's TV series The Umbrella Academy isn't as weird as the Gerard Way / Gabriel Bá comic book series it's based on, but "less weird" for this story is admittedly a very low bar to reach.
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Reports before the game indicated a loss to the Raiders could get Bill O'Brien fired, but it's hard to understand what jumping over this low bar proved about O'Brien's future ability to win in Houston.
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And he departed Asia without vomiting on a counterpart's lap -- the low bar for presidential endurance set by George H.W. Bush, who fell ill at the end of his marathon trip through Asia in 1992.
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"The media fawning over Trump opening one 'meeting' with (members of Congress) to press exemplifies the repulsively low bar for this POTUS," wrote Ian Sams, a former spokesman for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, on Twitter.
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It makes clumsy, lazy, unforced errors in exactly the moments that it's striving for honesty, and if this time those errors might not lead to deaths, well, that's a pretty low bar to aim for.
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It's worth noting, however, that Apple had a notably weak quarter in its first fiscal quarter of 2019 as iPhone sales cratered by 15%, setting a low bar for Apple to clear in Q1 2020.
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"While guidance is typically weak in the first quarter as corporates set a low bar, it has been more cautious than usual this earnings season, likely due to the coronavirus," Subramanian said in a note.
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"But being better than coal is a low bar and is not enough for a stable climate," said Jonathan Gaventa, a senior associate at the sustainable development think tank E3G, who recently moved to Maputo.
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And by the way, that sounds like a low bar, but it turns out, a lot of VCs can do more harm than good by injecting themselves at different times or places when not needed.
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The judges outlined broad subpoena powers for Congress, set a low bar for committees establishing a "legislative purpose" when issuing subpoenas, and dismissed the notion that the judiciary should be responsible for evaluating Congress' political motives.
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Abe has likely set a low bar for Trump's visit -- his ultimate aim is to keep him happy so that Trump doesn't sell him out in favor of Kim or hit him with politically motivated tariffs.
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The Trump administration could try to illegally tweak the National Climate Assessment given the low bar set by the Administrative Procedure Act, said Denise Grab, an attorney and regional director at the Institute for Policy Integrity.
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Even when compared to the low bar of another recent shopping center art-commerce intervention — Ai Weiwei's Er Xi, Air de jeux at Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche — TP–RAMA is basically one prolonged derivative punchline.
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"To give House Republicans like Elise Stefanik, Tom Reed or Carlos Curbelo credit for acknowledging that climate change is real is a very low bar," said Meredith Kelly, a spokeswoman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
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In the weeks preceding the election, approval ratings for Abe's Liberal Democrat Party (LDP) have stood at a mere 37%, a low bar even by Japanese standards, where enthusiasm for political parties remains apathetic at best.
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Mr. Keller also argued that Mr. Buck had not cleared the fairly low bar for obtaining permission to appeal, which requires an assessment of whether reasonable judges could disagree about whether he was entitled to relief.
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" On Thursday, however, seizing the opportunity to tiptoe over the low bar set by President-elect Trump who once called it a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese, Perry said that "I believe the climate is changing.
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Despite those advantages, cheap U.S. gas prices are setting a low bar for pricing, Norman said, with Santos focused on trying to deliver LNG into Asia at $7 to $9 per million British thermal units (mmBtu).
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Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama, speaking in private this week, extolled what he said was the drama-free nature of his White House and said it was a "low bar" now to avoid embarrassing presidential scandals.
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Gene Seymour: Actress Doris Day was much more than America's virgin Sam Vinograd: Giuliani sets a new low bar with his Ukraine trip Jeni Stepanek: Will this 13-year-old child-poet be considered for possible sainthood?
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As Janelle Jones, an analyst with the Economic Policy Institute told me in January, "We don't get to set a very low bar for economic success for black workers and then applaud ourselves when we reach it."
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In 290 UEFA, football's governing body in Europe, announced that clubs would have to include at least eight "home-grown" players in their squads of 27—a low bar, since foreigners that had signed as youngsters qualified.
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In doing so, Castro made a compelling case for why he is the stronger "immigration candidate," while O'Rourke proved he has trouble standing out against opponents who aren't Ted Cruz (which is kind of a low bar).
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S&P 500 profits are expected to have fallen 7.8 percent in the first quarter, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S, but that low bar may make it easier for companies to post positive surprises.
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But it was a collective choice to stop reporting what we've seen and continue to see, and start reporting our impressions of how ably or poorly Trump is clearing the insanely low bar he set for himself.
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It remains to be seen whether Swift's forthcoming new single can beat Perry's new video the way she seems to be betting it can — but Perry has set a very low bar for Swift to hop over.
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To many observers (at least a few Republicans included), the Democrats' handling of the proceedings were at the very least as fair as the GOP hearings on Benghazi, though that is a low bar, to be sure.
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For the 2020 cycle, the Democratic National Committee established such a low bar for inclusion on the debate stage that they have two-night debates so that all the qualified candidates have access to a primetime audience.
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But on the bright side for Trump — which is a historically low bar — there were these things: Comey admitted he was a leaker, and Trump is obsessed with catching leakers even though he's a world-class leaker himself.
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That's a low bar for what counts as poverty, and some development experts argue we should be using a global poverty line of $10-20073 a day instead (you can read more in detail about those debates here).
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Then again, he has set a low bar for government experience among his administration picks — Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Commerce nominee Wilbur Ross, for example, have no prior experience in government at all.
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He said the yield is a good proxy for the risk-free rate of return, which is the theoretical rate of return from a risk-free investment, so it is a low-bar for his retirement portfolio to clear.
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It has to do with the low bar in the process for issuing an arrest warrant in Virginia: After filing a police report, a victim can approach a magistrate for an arrest warrant against someone accused of a crime.
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While the original Spectacles still looked far better than most tech-enabled glasses (a very low bar), they also had a weird, toy-like look, no matter how much Snap tried to suggest the glasses were a fashion accessory.
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So there was a high barrier of entry because nobody wanted to hear anything from a rock band then, but there was also an incredibly low bar because there were so few good rock bands in a mainstream space.
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That's a low bar to jump, and I hope the President and his team will do all that is necessary to protect America from future intrusions on our democracy, as his predecessor's failure is looking worse by the day.
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A low-concept, low-bar romantic comedy whose conundrums are as familiar as love itself, "In a Relationship" has a smudged tenderness and almost nostalgic sweetness, as if we're watching these characters painfully learn everything that we already know.
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The low bar to entry drives the appeal, said Stuart Josberger, co-owner of Stumpy's Hatchet House, an indoor, B.Y.O.B., hatchet-throwing range in Eatontown, N.J. "People walk in, and everyone's kind of at the same level," he said.
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More than 19903 percent of migrants pass the initial screening because of congressionally mandated rules that set a fairly low bar for approval to ensure that persecuted people have the opportunity to apply for refuge in the United States.
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The test itself is just a conversation piece because it's such a low bar (do two women in the film talk to each other about anything other than a man?) and yet an astonishingly high ratio of films can't pass it.
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Don't get me wrong: it's perfectly playable, and Overwatch's cartoonish art style works great even with the lower fidelity graphics (as opposed to, say, the Witcher 3 port), but "it has basic functionality" should be a low bar to clear.
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I realize it's a low bar to set, but as a Taylor fan, I can finally breathe a sigh of relief now that she's done what I've been wanting her to do for a year now: admit she was wrong.
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The celebrity-dipped three-hour event didn't reach the heights of John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John in a flying car, but it scaled the low bar set by NBC's versions of The Sound of Music, Peter Pan, and The Wiz.
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It was a return to the incredibly low bar that was set for Trump over the course of the entire primary and most of the election—Trump didn't make a pass at Gorsuch's wife or drop his pants, after all!
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"Being able to scrutinize the tax returns of a man or woman seeking to occupy the most powerful position on earth is a low bar, and one that candidates long abided by until 2016," Pascrell said in a news release.
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Yes -- at least, grading on the curve that is the Oscar telecast, the mess that the Academy has made of things leading up to this year's show, and the low bar set by the last host-less Academy Awards in 1989.
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And yet, even by that incredibly low bar, what some right-wing pundits have done in the wake of 10 mail pipe bombs being sent to prominent Trump critics, Democratic politicians, party donors and CNN's New York office is astonishing.
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Looking at the realistic low bar of what it takes to be a public company, this implies being at run rate revenue (ARR) of $100 million at the time of IPO, while still growing at 25 percent or greater in the following year.
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Not brilliant, really, except in the idiosyncratic way that all unusual things are attractive, and certainly not best-player-in-baseball good, but definitely good enough to clear the low bar for hey-that-guy's-pretty-damn-good-for-a-short-guy good.
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We see multiple catalysts beyond earnings that make Apple a top pick into year end....The combination of negative investor sentiment, the potential for a Services acceleration in June, and a low bar for September guidance keep us positively biased into earnings.
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The teen-targeting discount chain's "fun and experiential" spirit is what helps it pull in shoppers even as the rest of its sector fails to do so, and what made its 1 percent growth shine in a low-bar environment, Cramer argued.
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"It's pretty rare to start with a low bar and work your way up at this stage ..." Delegations from rich countries with some moral high-ground -- Germany, New Zealand and Canada, among them -- are not doing enough to rally support, observers said.
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It was a good sign that on Friday he appeared to reverse himself and pledged that he would not order the U.S. military to commit war crimes, yet that's such an astonishingly low bar that I can't believe I just wrote this sentence!
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If they pass that first hurdle, a low bar, they go on to immigration court where a judge can grant them asylum if they prove they have been persecuted because of their race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group.
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What this meant for Hillary Clinton is that for once, she had a low bar to clear in the debate: as long as she could stay cool and articulate her vision for the country, she would likely be judged the winner of Wednesday's faceoff.
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News outlets did make real, novel efforts to communicate Trump's unique kind of political dishonesty and his erratic nature to news consumers, but this was offset by a parallel collective decision to hold him to the irresponsibly low bar that his campaign set for itself.
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With a low bar for membership—being born usually suffices—it has been there to hatch, match and dispatch anyone who wanted its services, a sort of religious public utility whose moderation has formed the English character and provided a glue for English society.
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" Carson, who seems to set a very low bar when it comes to who might be qualified to occupy the Oval Office, spent an hour with Trump and concluded he had the right stuff because, "You can have a very good conversation with him.
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What's more is that millennials in particular are known for low turnout even beyond the already low bar: Millennials have consistently failed to turn out at the same rate boomers did when they were young, according to an analysis by The Pew Research Center.
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While search warrants require the government to show that it has "probable cause" that a crime has been committed, courts can order companies to produce customer metadata so long as it meets the very low bar of being "relevant" to an ongoing criminal investigation.
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"We've set a remarkably inclusive and frankly low bar throughout the campaigns, John, and I'm proud of that and as a result of that we did have the most diverse field in American history and I'm proud of that," Perez told CNN's John Berman.
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I feel like "just wanted it to be watchable" is a pretty low bar for a devoted fan of the original (I taped the finale on a friggin' VCR because I had dance class when it aired; that's the level of commitment we're talking here) to have.
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Its expedited process and low bar to entry — only 30 senators are needed to bring a vote, and the vote generally happens quite quickly — have made it an ideal tool for Congress to undo Obama-era regulations, but the shoe is on the other foot now.
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The event's central theme was the deceptively simple (and frankly over-uttered) phrase "tech for good," but the programming and content revealed a level of sophistication and sincerity on the topic that exceeds the low bar often found in tech industry marketing materials and staged events.
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That low bar added an element of comedy to everyone on the Republican side of the aisle, not just pro-Trumpers, celebrating the pick—you couldn't help but feel it was on par with a pet owner praising a dog for not shitting in the house.
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But 12 weeks at partial pay, or six weeks fully paid, is actually a low bar compared with what other developed nations offer: partial pay for 35 weeks in Canada and 44 weeks in Germany, and up to 56 weeks in Norway depending on the pay scale.
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That was the message to me from one lawmaker involved -- if it seems like a low bar, it is, but given the issues and politics, it's a genuinely good sign the talks are not just ongoing, but deep in the weeds, multiple people directly involved say.
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But that's a very low bar, and if Mr. Tillerson has any hope of raising the issue to the prominence it deserves, and changing the mind of a president-elect who has already called global warming a "hoax," he will have to be tough and tenacious.
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Here's the premise behind one of the best-known virtual reality games ever made (an admittedly low bar): the year is 2050, and robots that look like floating CRT screens have made humanity obsolete, leaving us to play at "jobbing" in simulated restaurants, convenience stores, garages, and cubicle farms.
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We want to see the [Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology] take a step back and allow the private sector to continue its progress around a 'bottom up' approach to interoperability, not a top-down approach centered around the low bar of federally recognized standards.
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That might sound like a low bar, but in a world where there was quite a bit of debate over whether Donald Trump referring to undocumented gang members as "animals" was actually bigoted (it was), the fact that news reporters and editors have staked out this position is notable.
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"It is a very low bar when you're celebrating the fact that a governor resigned because of a sex scandal and the candidate who had been criminally convicted in West Virginia is not your nominee," said Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, who oversees the Senate Democratic campaign arm.
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The fact that this hasn't happened, that instead the Obama-era expansion has continued, means that the Trump administration has thus far cleared one (admittedly low) bar, and achieved a level of semi-competence that persuades investors to invest and consumers to keep spending and businesses to hire.
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When Roosevelt lied about a German attack on the American destroyer USS Greer in 85033, he set a low bar for Lyndon Johnson's highly embellished description of a second North Vietnamese attack on U.S. naval vessels, which led Congress to pass the Gulf of Tonkin resolution in 1964.
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And though, as Vice-Chancellor Laster noted, the state justices may still decide not to hear the case, the Chancery judge made it quite clear that he believes the Supreme Court should step in now to reconfirm the low bar for shareholders demanding to see corporate books and records.
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Portraying Conway as a desperate clown going to great lengths to get onto TV is a tired conceit at this point — depicting Conway is desperate to spin public perceptions of the Trump administration is already a low bar to hit, and It has been out in theaters for weeks now.
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Such is the dismally low bar the outside world has blindly set on how to assess the ultra-weird North Korean regime, even the most mundane acts like meeting with foreign leaders, visiting China, or going to a concert will be interpreted as signs of desire for denuclearization, reform and opening.
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FBI agents soon realized that by portraying their work as intelligence gathering and not emphasizing the law enforcement aspects, they could go to a different court -- the FISA court, with its unconstitutionally low bar for obtaining a search warrant (namely, probable cause of speaking to a foreign person) -- to get search warrants.
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Most Vulkan-capable apps right now are high-end or experimental games, so this won't make everything instantly wonderful, but it does mean you're now the low bar of Vulkan desktop performance, and the large install base makes you a highly attractive target for developers if they can optimize their titles for you.
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Just consider the plaudits that Mr Trump earned for turning up in Mexico City in late August and reading a prepared statement next to the Mexican president without making any cracks about rapists or actually inciting violence: a low-bar performance that had Republicans rushing on to the airwaves to call him "statesmanlike".
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Collins concluded, after singling out the absurd accusations of attorney Michael Avenatti, that although professor Christine Blasey Ford's testimony accusing Brett Kavanaugh of a sexual assault decades earlier, was "sincere, painful and compelling," it simply lacked the corroboration or supporting evidence necessary to pass even the low-bar "more likely than not" standard.
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But when the alternative may have been a lifestyle similar to that of Leonardo DiCaprio — a man whose dating track record suggests a belief that women have a shelf life just shy of 25 years — dating age-appropriately in itself seems like a low bar to clear, yet sadly, worthy of praise.
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In the low bar for "family values" that we are seeing in 2018, it will sadly require an ounce of courage from Republicans at a minimum and probably more public proof of what Trump knew and didn't know about the hush money paid to Stormy Daniels to make this scandal rise above others.
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It's still a significant investment, and the image quality isn't up to the 4K video output by the GoPro, but for users who just want to make cool videos to share among friends using social tools, Rylo's ease of use and incredibly low bar in terms of filming expertise required is hard to beat.
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It's Trump who has set a new low bar on transpacific diplomacy, referring to China's trade policies as "theft" and "rape" (it's odd and unsettling how frequently the metaphor of rape surfaces in his speech) while using a crude broken English accent to depict Asian trade negotiators as cowering before his deal-making prowess.
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The idea that "a feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life" sets a ludicrously low bar to join a social movement, though the slogan is suited to the era of extreme self-regard we're currently in: It requires that a feminist only speak for herself to get her membership card.
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Eventually, authorities told the people attempting to intercept Kessler that he had somehow been escorted out of the area unscathed and unnoticed, and the most formidable anti-racists on the scene moved on before 6 PM. Pointing out that things went better than they did last year in Charlottesville seems like a pretty low bar.
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" Others told the Post that Lowell had found "fewer than 1,000 personal emails in which Trump shared her official schedule and travel plans with herself and her personal assistants," which seems like a rather low bar, as well as "fewer than 100 emails in which Trump used her personal account to discuss official business with other administration officials.
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It's arguably the best Windows phones available right now (which is admittedly a low bar to hit among such a small field), and HP is really pushing Microsoft's Continuum feature with a separate Lapdock accessory that lets you connect the phone to what looks like an ultrabook and use apps just like you would on a Windows 10 laptop.
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His ability to preside over a mostly scandal-free administration, to restore dignity to the highest elected office, to exist as a public person who treats his intimates with respect and care, and to conduct an often intellectually elevated, wise, and sometimes humorous discourse on public affairs, far outstrips the low bar set by his predecessors.
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But Kainz expresses hope at the end of the Research blog post that software "should be able to process the images internally" on a phone, once developed, and that the only ingredient required thereafter from a user's perspective would be setting up their smartphone on a tripod – a relatively low bar these days, even for casual mobile photographers.
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Compared to the very low bar set by the Chinese leadership's secrecy and inaction during the SARS epidemic in 2002 and 2003, Mr. Xi has responded with speed and alacrity to the latest health emergency, a pneumonialike virus that at last official count has killed at least 80, sickened thousands in China and spread around the world.
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The court's test seems to set a pretty low bar: While paying lip service to an inquiry of the law's purpose, the court has instead looked at whether a measure funds the general treasury rather than a specific program — a hurdle that tariffs, the money from which almost always goes into the general coffers, would easily clear.
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"While Target's news flash is certainly good for Target and for its long-suffering shareholders, it's not necessarily good enough yet to ignite a sustainable rally in the group – and the emphasis is on the word 'sustainable' – especially when it was Target that had set the low bar to begin with, " the "Mad Money " host said.
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While the outlook was a negative surprise and cautious read on core Facebook engagement growth trends and long-term infrastructure costs that will linger as overhangs, we expect some support for the stock on the view that there is upside potential vs a low bar, and that revenues could re-accelerate after a usage shift (stories, video) adjustment period.
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Natalie Angier, surveying the field of research on "cuteness," wrote for the New York Times in 2006, "The human cuteness detector is set at such a low bar ... that it sweeps in and deems cute practically anything remotely resembling a human baby or a part thereof," which begins to explain why googly eyes work for us.
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Photo: Christopher Furlong (Getty Images)Donald Trump has never been a person who comes to mind when one thinks "cybersecurity"—he may not even know how to use a computer—but even by that low bar, the president and his administration have barely been able to keep it together when it comes to the security risk posed by cell phones.
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Opinion Columnist One of the best things that the bishops of the American Catholic Church did during the great wave of sex abuse revelations 16 years ago — and yes, there's a low bar for "best" — was to establish a National Review Board, staffed by prominent layman, with the authority to commission an independent report on what exactly had happened in the church.
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Makayla Thrush, who trained at Geddert's club from ages 7 to 17, said she developed an eating disorder because of Geddert and accused him of becoming so angry that he threw her on top of a low bar, ruptured the lymph nodes in her neck, gave her a black eye and tore the muscles in her stomach, ending her career.
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Democratic strategist Michael Starr Hopkins lamented the "low bar" that's been set for former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenGiuliani calls Trump to say he was joking about 'insurance policy' Three women accuse Gordon Sondland of sexual misconduct Top Obama-era official says Trump is 'destroying' executive privilege amid investigations MORE's performance following the latest Democratic presidential debate on Wednesday night.
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"I know that seems like a low bar," Obama added, in an apparent jab to the scandals surrounding President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's administration.
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If nothing else, it stands head and shoulders above its peers, though that's a remarkably low bar to clear considering the endless line of Kate Hudson/Matthew McConaughey wedding-fever droll that would come to define the genre in the 20023s with films like, and this is just from memory, How to Groom a Groom in 22002 Grooms, World War Wedding, and Brides, Motherfucker!.
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He was a prime example of Color of Change's idea that you can set an initially low bar for engagement in the hopes you might carry people along; maybe the first thing someone does is share a link on Facebook, then you get them to sign a petition, then attend a rally, and then agree to use the group's home phone-banking technology to call voters in swing states.
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Last night, I was watching No Strings Attached, the seminal 2011 film about casual sex starring Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman, which, if we're being honest, falls well short of even the low bar of "lazy When Harry Met Sally remake," yet does succeed on the merits of it being about two very attractive people having sex, having a cast of future all-stars—like Greta Gerwig, Mindy Kaling, and Jake Johnson, as well as the already-famous Ludacris; let it sink in that Greta Gerwig and Ludacris were once in a movie with Ashton Kutcher together—and also a few well-placed jokes.
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