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.
Even by the low bar of American politics the advert "King of Bain" attacking Romney is harsh.
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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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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But instead of that being a bearish signal, it might just have created a low enough bar for the usual beat rates.
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Indeed, Chinese megashops are hawking low-rate Android tablets right now for around the same amount, setting a new (low) bar when it comes to pricing on ho hum slates.
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Add to that a low financial bar set by depressed conditions in 2006, and companies in the business may well beat Wall Street expectations on earnings later this year.
With cheap valuations and stocks coming off these low prices, the earnings bar is extremely low for the third quarter.
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Sometimes, companies set the bar low and fail to meet even the supposedly easy targets.
Now inflation is low nearly everywhere bar Zimbabwe (where it is 150, 000%) and nearly every African country not at war is growing quite fast.
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.
An Emerson through ball at the subsequent corner found its way to Arveladze 12 yards from goal, but the goalkeeper again managed to deflect the Georgian's low shot over the bar.
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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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