Sometimes, companies set the bar low and fail to meet even the supposedly easy targets.
This combined with the latest wave of Euro debt angst might create a pullback that finally sets the bar low enough for some handset sector names come the earnings season.
They believe companies set the bar so low that it's easy to jump over it.
But, she added, the skills identified by the report "seem to set the bar quite low".
The European Union, for example, has set the bar deliberately low for Bosnia to apply for candidate status, in recognition of its unique complexity.
And in the digital age, not only is it very easy to broadcast your boudoir adventures, the bar is low for what constitutes an adventure worth writing about.
The BBC's James Reynolds, in Istanbul, says the envoys had earlier set the bar pretty low - saying they did not expect detailed, substantive proposals from either side.
But the notion that somehow we have succeeded as a consequence of the recent reductions in violence means that we have set the bar so low it's buried in the sand at this point.
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Sandy Baum, an economist at Skidmore College whose research laid the groundwork for the proposed rules, said the department's regulations set the bar very low but the judge had created an impossible threshold because "there is no one right measure, " she said.
But to do that, first you have to wrestle the bar down low enough to hook it into a waist harness, then maneuver the board in front of you and slip your feet into the foot straps, all while keeping the kite under control.
With cheap valuations and stocks coming off these low prices, the earnings bar is extremely low for the third quarter.
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The Americans and the Europeans undoubtedly viewed these conditions as a low bar to cross.
The state of Tennessee, like many states, had a low bar on No Child Left Behind.
While it is good to have companies beat expectations it appears that the bar was quite low.
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Even by the low bar of American politics the advert "King of Bain" attacking Romney is harsh.
She also has a nagging suspicion that the gangs are being treated too kindly - the bar set too low.
Most mutual funds have a hard time meeting even that low bar.
"There's a feeling that 2012 is not going to be as bad as 2011, though that's a pretty low bar, " he said.
If the slew of reports over the next few weeks can clear the low bar of dimming expectations it could provide another tailwind.
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Any patents that were granted under the appeals court's relatively low bar for receiving a patent will stand--however, they are subject to the Supreme Court's standard if challenged.
Where individual idea recognition and information gathering is not valued, top-down corporations give members an incentive to hide information and dissemble in order to keep the bar for performance low.
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In other words, all-or-nothing access necessitates a low bar.
Now, that's a low bar, given -- (laughter.) But there was a team from Tennessee that had designed a self-powered water filtration plant so that homes in Appalachia could have access to clean water.
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Or has the bar simply been set low enough to meet the UNHCR's wish to empty the camp?
Interestingly, the company has done a good job of managing Wall Street expectations, and the bar has been set low.
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