The Phantom 4 raises the bar on almost every level.
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USMCA also raises the bar with binding enforcement for all chapters.
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Just when they seem caught up, Amazon raises the bar again.
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The proposal significantly raises the bar set in 2015 when Gov.
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By leapfrogging around top clubs, Guardiola constantly raises the bar for himself.
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He raises the bar, and then he goes out and raises it again.
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That newly broken record also raises the bar significantly for future animated releases.
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OkCupid's pronoun update "raises the bar for LGBTQ-inclusion on dating apps," Stokes says.
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But this new effort raises the bar with sharp writing and even sharper visuals.
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This bold move raises the bar very high for any future deal with Iran.
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As contributor Steven Scaife writes, Black Panther raises the bar for the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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It raises the bar for how technology is expected to make our working lives better.
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The bill also: • Raises the bar for people seeking asylum to a higher burden of proof.
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Sunday's incident raises the bar and will force his team to consider another level of extremes.
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That change gradually raises the bar for attaining a full retirement benefit - effectively a benefit cut.
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FTC SAYS $5 BILLION PENALTY "RAISES THE BAR FOR CIVIL PENALTIES IN FUTURE MATTERS INVOLVING PRIVACY VIOLATIONS"
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And now this certainly raises the bar in terms of what I look for in a character.
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Competition and increased political and government engagement raises the bar in 2018 for ethical conduct and transparency.
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Critical Shopper A clothing store in the booming Sycamore district in Los Angeles raises the bar for cool.
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Critical Shopper A clothing store in the booming Sycamore district in Los Angeles raises the bar for cool.
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A higher retirement age acts as a benefit cut, since it raises the bar for receiving full benefits.
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The new initiative raises the bar to apply only to firms with information on 100,000 customers or households.
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Taking this recruiting shortcut also raises the bar for candidates from already under-represented groups, including minorities and women.
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"It raises the bar for what retail jobs can be and should be," said the union's president, Stuart Appelbaum.
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And yes, you're right, it really does; it raises the bar for me; it encourages me to write better.
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This principle raises the bar on impeachment to virtually unreachable levels, and risks placing the president above the law.
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"It definitely raises the bar for me in the sense that I am considering it," Graham told The Hill.
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Yet, there's a downside that isn't spoken of much: exposure raises the bar on what it takes to be awestricken.
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Part of the challenge is that once a player raises the bar, everyone else doubles their efforts to clear it.
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"The contract raises the bar for working people up and down the West Coast," said UAW Western regional director Gary Jones.
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This streaming media player, which is less pricey compared to similar 4K HD devices, raises the bar for binge-watching sessions.
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That raises the bar of expectation higher than I had assumed while writing up my initial impressions of Huawei's new flagship.
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It seems like with each time she raises the bar for herself, there's more of an effort to shrink her accomplishments.
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While pickup truck prices have been rising, the sticker on Ford's newest F-450 raises the bar to a record high.
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" He told a United States diplomat afterward that he feared the speech "raises the bar of expectations in the Arab world.
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"I do think it raises the bar..I think what we've seen in shale is the benefits of scale are real," said Strik.
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Creating a playable lead trans character — and taking such care to get it right — raises the bar for future LGBTQ inclusion in gaming.
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Creating a playable lead trans character—and taking such care to get it right—raises the bar for future LGBTQ inclusion in gaming.
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The airline just asks that they dress in a way that, at a minimum, raises the bar of air apparel on the flight.
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While many stores — from Walmart to Walgreens — offer peanut butter-filled pretzel nuggets, Wegmans raises the bar by offering a chocolate-covered variety.
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While Mr. Adjaye is known for incorporating local designs into his buildings, the poetry of the cathedral's allusions to indigenous traditions raises the bar.
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But Dangerzone nonetheless significantly raises the bar for attackers, and thanks to its simple design doesn't present any obvious ways to defeat its security.
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As we increase the quantity [of representations], it also raises the bar on quality and that requires content creators to be much more surgical.
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But consider that the outrageous nature of the president's behavior, already revealed, really raises the bar for what that smoking howitzer would have to contain.
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Disney World and SeaWorld Orlando have been riding Comcast's coattails in recent years, allowing Disney to phone it in as Universal Orlando raises the bar.
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"Today's headline ... raises the bar substantially on what efficacy will need to look like to drive meaningful use," J.P.Morgan analyst Cory Kasimov wrote in a note.
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Then, if I have been successful, it raises the bar and keeps raising it, which guarantees that I'm going to have to wrangle with failure again.
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It raises the bar for every other e-bike manufacturer with a ton of original features that turn the bike into a powerful, high-tech gadget.
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GLAAD Vice President of Programs, Zeke Stokes, said in a statement that OkCupid "raises the bar for LGBTQ inclusion on dating apps" with the pronouns feature.
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Related: Real-Time Face Substitution Lets You Be Someone Else This Artistic Intervention 'Hacks' The Human Face Korean Rapper Yumdda Raises The Bar On Face Projections
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Some Chinese officials have become concerned that the nearly institutional graft surrounding such projects represents a liability for China, and raises the bar needed for profitability.
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Amazon's 1-Day shipping "raises the bar in e- commerce yet again & accelerates the top line," said J.P. Morgan analyst Doug Anmuth in a note to clients.
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Wednesday's decision raises the bar for Hutchison's planned combination in Italy with Vimpelcom, the parent company of Wind, which is the subject of a full-scale EU investigation.
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The Google case differs from Intel's, but the judgment has been welcomed by companies under EU scrutiny because it raises the bar for the regulator to prove wrongdoing.
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This raises the bar for true wireless earbuds, which is especially important since your Galaxy Buds Plus will hold less of a charge in a year or two.
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But today we can quickly go to the video and fact check the candidates, and this raises the bar, giving us displays like the excellent Clinton-Sanders face off.
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"It's likely going to be a bit more restraining for housing demand, and it raises the bar for first-time homebuyers, but it is not a game changer," said Hogue.
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This further raises the bar for entry in politics and, as The Intercept reported, has created an atmosphere where political parties rank a candidate's fundraising abilities over their policy ideas.
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As if Krasinski and Blunt weren't already one of the best celebrity couples, their prank war with Kimmel and his wife Molly raises the bar for both relationship and squad goals.
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Part of the problem may be that the model is benchmarked using data only from the previous five years, which were themselves unusually barren: that raises the bar to a payout.
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There's always a player posting on Reddit, Facebook, Simtropolis and Paradox that raises the bar of realism, giving a lot of inspiration not only for gameplay, but for making new assets.
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The awkward reality is that phasing out these special certificates raises the bar for entry into the workforce for the disabled, thus harming most those it would be intended to help.
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The unusual burden underscores how much work the San Francisco-based bank still has to do to regain the trust of its regulators and further raises the bar for its CEO search.
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"With each action testing the Constitution, and each personal attack on a judge, President Trump raises the bar even higher for Judge Gorsuch's nomination to serve on the Supreme Court," Schumer said.
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As the Russian operation suggests, if you're going to cheat you have to have better science and better organization and more money behind you than ever before, because WADA raises the bar.
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Skilled civil servants with the authority to interview applicants and say "No" to questionable claims raises the bar for future perpetrators of fraud, thereby discouraging all but the most determined criminals and terrorists.
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The announcement raises the bar for the world's most valuable company — now a huge driver of the economy — to continue its dominance and growth in the wake of political pressure on big tech companies.
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Food and Drug Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said that if the agency raises the bar for new opioids — which he's open to — that new approach will be limited to opioids, and won't affect other drug categories.
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I take a lot of pride in and I put a lot of passion into that to make sure it is something that raises the bar, especially in an age where imagery is so constant.
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" Diana Best, senior strategist at the Sunrise Project, said the announcement on Tuesday "instantly raises the bar" for BlackRock&aposs competitors and is the result of an "outpouring of pressure from the global climate movement.
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It raises the bar a bit in terms of what people are posting, but it also means that their investment is justified because it's going to stick around and it's going to be available for views.
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That raises the bar for workers to pursue complaints, by ensuring that each must establish—and finance—his or her case separately; it also lowers the risk that misconduct will damage an employer's finances or reputation.
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"With each action testing the Constitution, and each personal attack on a judge, President Trump raises the bar even higher for Judge Gorsuch's nomination to serve on the Supreme Court," Chuck Schumer said in a statement.
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Vertex already has three products on the market for the life-shortening lung disorder, and the latest data further raises the bar for rivals such as Proteostasis Therapeutics and Galapagos NV who are developing CF drugs.
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However, when a student raises the bar by their compassionate act — like one student who produced a video capturing the reasons their classmate is an asset to their community — the thoughtfulness of the other deeds increases.
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"At American, we are always looking at ways to invest in technology that raises the bar on global aviation security while improving the customer experience," José Freig, the airline's chief security officer, said in an emailed statement.
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The two Koreas' "new era of peace" raises the bar for President Trump's summit with North Korea: He'll go in with credit and momentum, but now will want an even splashier accomplishment than yesterday's path to officially ending the Korean War.
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The policy also restricts the watchdog from labeling a financial practice as abusive if the bureau has already also labeled it as deceptive or unfair, and raises the bar for consumers to prove abusive conduct to the agency, said McCoy.
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"With each action testing the Constitution, and each personal attack on a judge, President Trump raises the bar even higher for Judge Gorsuch's nomination to serve on the Supreme Court," Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in the Senate, said in a statement.
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But a closer look suggests that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's policy actually raises the bar for companies to get tax breaks to 21 percent wage increases from 53 percent - and as a result it will likely fail to drive up compensation.
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The law also lets people with concealed-carry permits carry guns into the state capitol, legalizes short-barrel shotguns and rifles, makes firearm permit holders' personal information confidential, and raises the bar for prosecutors seeking to tack on weapons charges for certain felonies.
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With its fourteen rap bangers, a cavalcade of appearances by the likes of Stormzy, Youngs Teflon, Casisdead and more, and verse after verse of Giggs' unmistakable angular flow, you can easily say that Landlord raises the bar on UK rap in 2016 to Olympic levels.
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Now, however, Amazon is taking an approach that immediately raises the bar for its rivals in tech: it's opening up a space in its Seattle headquarters to a homeless shelter, one that's expected to become the largest family shelter in the state of Washington.
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And now it's back with the third-generation, the MX Master 3, that once again raises the bar with an even more refined version of its hardware that makes the already great scroll wheel even better and finally switches to USB-C for charging.
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For those who have been out of the headphone game a while, Sony's 1000X M3 are among the best over-ear models when it comes to comfort, impressive sound quality, and a noise-canceling effect that raises the bar above competitors, like Bose's QC35 II headphones.
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Some people have joked that his gift raises the bar for commencement speakers everywhere, but given that Smith already had a special relationship with Morehouse College (and that he's one of the richest men in the country), his gesture may not necessarily spark a trend of philanthropic commencement-speech gestures.
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MOTORINO There are four other places for pizza wihin two blocks in this Upper West Side neighborhood, but the addition of Mathieu Palombino's highly regarded brick-oven pies, nine varieties with more than a dozen optional toppings, certainly raises the bar: 510 Columbus Avenue (84th Street), 917-216-2212, motorinopizza.com.
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Coogler's ability to deliver a movie like this, which has seen rave reviews and a historic four-day box office gross rivaled only by Star Wars: The Force Awakens, not only shows that such work can exist within an otherwise stifling studio system, but raises the bar for everything that comes after it.
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JOHN E. STAFFORD RYE, N.Y. To the Editor: In his critique of Jonathan Weisman's "(((Semitism)))" (April 1), Simon Schama raises the bar for what "being Jewish" means to such a height that only a minuscule number of highly cultured, Talmudically conversant Jewish history scholars such as himself are likely to make the cut.
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It raises the bar for being allowed to pursue an asylum claim in the US; unilaterally allows the US to send asylum seekers back to Mexico if they traveled through there (something that is usually negotiated with the other country in question); and allows Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain children and parents indefinitely.
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The individual rights model, meanwhile, "puts the Second Amendment on par with other fundamental rights of individuals (speech, liberty, association) and raises the bar of protection from state and local governments looking to regulate the right to bear arms," Amanda Hollis-Brusky, a constitutional law expert at Pomona College and author of Ideas With Consequences, told me.
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But when it works — as it did at Valentino wonderfully well, and as it did at Stella McCartney, where the suit linings became the stuff of slip dresses false-fronted onto velvet and knits, and portraits of women by the British artist J.H. Lynch were revealed under sheer lace and tulle shirts, the normally unseen elevated and exposed to the light — it raises the bar for everyone.
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Drazen described this scream as being one which "tears at the listener and raises the bar for cartoon voices".
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Connor returned to spotlight in 2010, when she featured on grime collective Roll Deep's comeback single "Good Times"; which she helped to co- write.Jodie Connor: 'No.1 raises the bar'. Digital Spy, 14 January 2011.
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The ThinkPad X60 tablet was praised by reviewers. LAPTOP Magazine said the ThinkPad X60 tablet "raises the bar for business-class convertibles". The most significant issue raised was the low capacity 4-cell battery, which provided a battery life of two hours.
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FundRazr was founded in 2008 by Daryl Hatton. The head office is located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The platform was initially a Facebook app that allowed users to crowdfund money over Facebook.Knowlton Thomas, “Exclusive Interview: Vancouver's FundRazr raises the bar with monumental PayPal and Facebook collaboration” Techvibes, 8 August 2010.
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It combines the elements of folk, symphonic, power, black, and death metal to create the "Epic Metal" sound that they produce. Capitalizing on the best moments offered up on So It Begins, the new album is a folk metal onslaught that redefines the genre and raises the bar to an all-time high.
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His first novel, The Sea Detective, was published by Sandstone Press in May 2011. A new edition was published by Penguin in November 2015. The Scotsman said it 'raises the bar' for Scottish crime fiction. The sequel, The Woman Who Walked into The Sea, was described as 'simply intoxicating' by the Library Journal in the USA.
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FundRazr is in partnership with PayPal which allow users to deposit and withdraw funding.“Exclusive Interview: Vancouver's FundRazr raises the bar with monumental PayPal and Facebook collaboration” Knowlton Thomas, Techvibes, 8 August 2010. On 20 August 2013, FundRazr introduced "Crowdfunding as a Service" technology, which allows web publishers and companies to run crowdfunding service on their site.Rob Lewis, “FundRazr Introduces Crowdfunding as a Service” Rob Lewis, Techvibes, 20 August 2013.
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Greg Morabito of Eater called the series' first season "maddeningly good" claiming that it, "raises the bar for food/travel shows." Jen Chaney of Vulture praised the show's first season for raising important cultural issues and taking "a highly egalitarian approach to cuisine." For the second season, review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 100% based on 5 reviews, with an average rating of 7/10.
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Paleontologist Grant Zazula, who has previously disproven claims of ancient regeneration, said: "This discovery raises the bar incredibly in terms of our understanding in terms of the viability of ancient life in the permafrost." The successful regeneration of the Silene stenophylla plants was cited in 2014 as the inspiration for experiments that discovered a viable giant virus, Pithovirus sibericum, in 30,000-year-old Siberian permafrost; the virus infects amoebas.
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The National Center for Children's Rehabilitation (NCCR) at MedStar NRH addresses an unmet regional need and raises the bar for care of pediatric patients with neurological, orthopedic injuries, and other illnesses. The only center of its kind in the area, the NCCR is a joint service of MedStar NRH and Children's National Medical Center and offers an innovative approach to children's rehab in a state-of-the-art and secure unit.
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She knows her strengths and sings to it." Andre wrote that the "album is near flawless". Andre highlights the favorite tracks as being "We Are", "Savior’s Here", "Stars in the Sky", "Rise", "One Desire", and "Run to You". Christianity Today's Andrew Greer said "Where I Find You raises the bar, expanding her worship sensibility and solo pop sweetness by enlisting major hooks to showcase radio-ready co-writes (with the likes of Matt Maher, Lincoln Brewster and Hillsong's Mia Feldes).
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Silverwing has had mostly positive reception. Animation Magazine ran a six-part series about the show in 2003, viewing it as "a grand miniseries" that "really raises the bar in TV animation". Common Sense Media described Silverwing as a "great kids' series" and gave it 4 out of 5 stars, adding however that its "complex, political story themes" may present difficulties for younger children. An encyclopedic review considered the series to be relatively accurate to the text, despite minor changes.
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Nausicaä is voiced in Japanese by Sumi Shimamoto, who won the role after impressing Hayao Miyazaki with her performance of Clarisse in Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro. Patrick Drazen praised Shimamoto's acting in a scene where Nausicaä stops an insect from diving into an acidic pool by getting in its way. She is burned by the acid and she screams. Drazen described this scream as being one which "tears at the listener and raises the bar for cartoon voices".
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Spider-Man received "generally favorable reviews" according to review aggregator Metacritic. The game received praise for its gameplay, graphics, narrative, and characterization, but was criticized for its familiar open-world tropes and lack of innovation. Critics called Spider-Man one of the greatest superhero games ever made. VentureBeat called it "the best Spider-Man game ... and one of the best super hero games ever", while Game Informer wrote, "Like Batman: Arkham Asylum before it, Spider-Man raises the bar for one of the world's most beloved heroes".
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He was the production team's first choice for the character. Other actors linked to the role included Bill Nighy, Richard E Grant, Anthony Head, Eddie Izzard, Hugh Grant and Alan Davies. Jane Tranter, BBC Controller of Drama Commissioning, stated in the announcement of his casting that casting an actor of Eccleston's reputation signalled "our intention to take Doctor Who into the 21st century, as well as retaining its core traditional values – to be surprising, edgy and eccentric". Executive Producer Russell T Davies remarked that casting Eccleston "raises the bar for all of us".
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Reviews focused on the acting, production values and pacing of the film, as well as its ambiguous ending. Jeff Shannon of The Seattle Times commented on the "fine acting and first rate production values." Hotdog remarked that "this short is beautifully shot, gently taking its time to unfold, and the presence of actors like stage and screen veteran Head really raises the bar a notch", concluding that "despite the sombre subject matter, there's a strange comfort to be found in the final minute of the film" and that "on this evidence, Cormack is a young director to watch."Greg Hilditch (24 December 2006).
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The International Academy of Hope – NYC (iHOPE-NYC) is a highly specialized brain injury school in New York City founded by Patrick Donohue in September 2013. It meets a significant and unmet need in our NYC community, while also serving as a world-class model of best practices and high tech solutions in the delivery of educational brain injury services. The school raises the bar for standards of care by promulgating best practices, supporting innovative treatments, and sharing knowledge through both on-site and remotely delivered training. After an initial period, the model will be replicated in other major metropolitan areas of the country and around the world.
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Snorkelers observing fish in Cozumel, Mexico Snorkeling is possible in almost any body of water, but snorkelers are most likely to be found in locations where there are minimal waves, warm water, and something particularly interesting to see near the surface. Generally shallow reefs ranging from are favored by snorkelers. Enough water cover to swim over the top without kicking the bottom is needed, but shallow structure can be approached from the sides. Deeper reefs can also be explored, but repeated breath-holding to dive to those depths limits the number of practitioners, and raises the bar on the required fitness and skill level.
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Katz and Dack opt for a psychological definition of learning: "Learning is the process through which experience causes permanent change in knowledge or behaviour". It is the characteristic of permanence which raises the bar for all professional learning, because learning as permanent change is not easy or natural to achieve. Katz and Dack urge designers of professional learning to avoid the "activity trap" of assuming that participation in a protocol or process guarantees real learning has occurred or putting so much emphasis on the activity that learning is lost in the shuffle. Because of these difficulties many teachers are turning to the web for PLCs.
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The game's visuals and control, while both outstanding, just don't have the same cohesion that made NFL 2K so flawless. But even with these few problems, playing NBA 2K will just about ruin you for all other basketball games." Brandon Justice of IGN wrote: "[W]hile the game has issues, it is easily worlds beyond anything else on the market, and truly raises the bar for video game basketball. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that it has done so in such a manner that even the high-jumping designers at Visual Concepts have difficulty clearing their own newfound level of excellence.
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The album received a positive review in The Guardian which called it 'the most invigoratingly coherent blast of pure electronic sound since the Boards of Canada last remembered to set their alarm clock' . A reviewer for Drowned in Sound gave the album a score of 10/10, calling it 'masterful' and stating that it 'raises the bar for producers in all fields of electronica and opens up new doors to what the field can actually achieve' Writing for Pitchfork, Matthew Herbert named The Idiots Are Winning as one of his top five albums of 2006. A review in Stylus Magazine, gave the album a rating of 'B+', calling it 'gorgeously magisterial'.
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Positive comments from critics included commendation for the quality and intensity of its action sequences, and its intelligence. Tony Toscano of Talking Pictures had high praise for the film, saying that "its character development and writing...is so crisp it crackles on the screen" and that "Matrix Reloaded re-establishes the genre and even raises the bar a notch or two" above the first film, The Matrix. Negative comments included the sentiment that the plot was alienating, with some critics regarding the focus on the action as a detriment to the film's human elements. Some critics thought that the number of scenes with expository dialog worked against the film, and the many unresolved subplots, as well as the cliffhanger ending, were also criticized.
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In October 2015, Diot opened the successor to Tapenade Restaurant, called "Bistro du Marché." Bistro du Marché, named after La Jolla's popular open air market, Bistro du Marché is also based on the culinary concept of "bistronomie", which emerged in Paris, and has been adopted by the United States. Bistronomie, a play on words on the concepts of "bistro" and "gastronomie", is a form of French cuisine that emphasizes the fusion of haute gastronomic expertise, seasonality, and the traditional "cuisine de terroir" found in bistros across France. The youthfulness of the bistronomie movement has succeeded in reinvigorating French cuisine, and Bistro du Marché, which is now part of the wave called "gastro-bistro," which raises the bar of a traditional French bistro's.
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Despite being a non-speaker and making his debut in Hindi, he dubbed his lines in the language, remarking jovially that it was the "most difficult thing in the world". After promotions at the Cannes Film Festival and a premiere at Leicester Square in London, the two versions and the dubbed Telugu version released simultaneously in 2,200 screens worldwide and took a big opening on day one, earning 20 crores. The Tamil version, Raavanan won rave reviews from critics, with The Hindu calling it a "master stroke" and claiming that Vikram "raises the bar higher with every venture". The critic cited that "emotions of love, animus, anguish and joy dance on his face in quick succession", concluding that "Vikram lifts the role to an admirable level".
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Sanders co-conceived and co-wrote (with Ric Burns) the award-winning PBS series, New York: A Documentary Film, and its bestselling companion volume, New York: An Illustrated History(Knopf, 1999). Described by Variety as “nothing short of gripping…a monumental documentary series that raises the bar for this kind of work,” the eight-part, 17½-hour film series chronicles the city's rise from tiny Dutch trading post through its preeminence as economic and cultural capital of the world. The series won several Emmy Awards and a Columbia-Dupont award. Mr. Sanders and Mr. Burns are currently producing a new ninth episode of the series, entitled "The Future of Cities," with funding provided by the American Express Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, among others, for national public television broadcast in Fall 2020.
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Filemobile was incubated out of the offices of Fantasy Sports Network and PoolExpert in the summer of 2005 as a ’bootstrapped’ research and development project to produce consumer websites that would allow users to upload digital files and share them with blogs and friends. In February 2006 the firm launched a user generated content community under the domain www.filemobile.com. Techcrunch - FileMobile raises the bar for multimedia sharing - Jul 3, 2006 By late 2006, the firm changed its strategic approach and began a business-to-business focus with white label software tools. In January, 2007, Filemobile launched the first version of its Media Factory online community management platform and in the fall, Ron Watson and Steve Hulford hired Chris Becker to act as CEO full-time in the company.
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Gran Turismo received widespread acclaim from critics and consumers alike, with praise for its graphics, soundtrack, tight controls and amount of cars. It was classified as "universal acclaim", according to review aggregator Metacritic. Next Generation reviewed the PlayStation version of the game, rating it five stars out of five, and stated that "as it stands in the Japanese version, everything about Gran Turismo is a class act, and it raises the bar for racing games on almost every possible level. Our highest possible recommendation". Gran Turismo won the best simulation of 1999 at the Spotlight Awards, won "Best Driving Game" and "Best Graphics" of 1999 according to the staff of PlayStation Official Magazine, and was voted the sixth best game of all time by the magazine's readers in the same issue.
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In a summary of his review, Chris Epting of Loudwire called the album "a modern metal classic that reflects the past while very much embracing the present". Artistdirect's Rick Florino stated, "Hail to the King doesn't just raise the bar for the band, but it raises the bar for everyone else to follow and compete with." In a very positive review, Dom Lawson of The Guardian judged, "Stripped down to a core of thudding Sabbath- like grooves and brash, spiky vocal refrains, Avenged now sound every bit as vital and imperious as the bands they aspire to emulate." "Hail to the King represents a clean sweep, a divergence into classic metal and their best chance of hitting the heights they've always longed for", according to Q. "The next giant crossover metal band has arrived", reviewer Tom Bryant concluded, giving the album a 4 stars out of 5 rating.
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Tell No One is a thriller novel by American writer Harlan Coben, published in 2001.Murder mystery sucks you in, and it's tough to 'Tell No One', The Detroit News, June 2, 2001Cogdill, Oline H (April 15, 2001) Before we get back to sports, murder, The Free Lance–Star (Knight Ridder)COBEN RAISES THE BAR FOR LITERARY WHODUNITS, Contra Costa Times, June 24, 2001 (quite positive review states, "... Harlan Coben with Tell No One which sets a new standard for traditional mystery fiction") The book was Coben's first novel to appear on The New York Times Best Seller list.As 'Good'as it gets Harlan Coben delivers another stunning novel full of thrills and chills, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, May 5, 2002Best Sellers Plus, The New York Times, July 8, 2001BEST SELLERS: July 22, 2001, The New York Times (No. 13) It was also adapted into a French film with the same title in 2006 ().
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Andy Argyrakis, awarding the album four stars from CCM Magazine, says, "The believer’s solo debut disc shows off his seasoned status with redemptive, socially relevant lyrics wound around driving guitars, stomping backbeats and periodic electronics (plus several stripped down alternate versions of tracks for those who learn towards the lighter side of the dial)." Rating the album a nine out of ten by Cross Rhythms, Matt McChlery describes, "This album raises the bar in the CCM scene as it is very contemporary yet uncompromising in the message it preaches." Caitlin Lassiter, giving the album four stars for New Release Today, writes, "Beloved is strikingly well produced and well written...Jordan has crafted a unique sound that's already being noticed by fans and grabs your attention at first listen." Awarding the album four stars at 365 Days of Inspiring Media, Jonathan Andre states, "While Jordan has made the transition from being in the rock/metal genre, to acoustic/pop/CCM; it is his lyrics of honest transparency and his passion to create music that’ll impact those around him".
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" Reed Fischer of Alternative Press stated, "The heartbreaking and indignation in Lauren Mayberry's laser-precise voice makes her an imperfect protagonist in the song length dramas found throughout her band's debut", adding that "even more devastation (the building-crushing kind this time) stems from Ian Cook and Martin Doherty's sophisticated and catchy layers of synthesizers and vocal hoops." Larry Fitzmaurice of Pitchfork described the album as "a seamless fusion of emotive theatrics, hook-loaded songwriting, and some of the more forward-thinking sonics in electronic music right now", and found that "the hooks on The Bones of What You Believe are indelible regardless of instrumentation, and the sound is immaculate." At Spin, Puja Patel opined that the album is "at its best on its revenge tunes", concluding, "In a mainstream landscape that's still reveling in the EDM-fueled fuck-yous of Icona Pop and Charli XCX's 'I Love It,' CHVRCHES' poppy electronic textures and bleakly lyrical brashness raises the bar." Rolling Stones Jon Dolan expressed, "Even when Chvrches are just competently mopey, their neon-Eighties visions are far from retro pose-striking.
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