Sentence examples for exactly raise from inspiring English sources

Mr. Ames, like Mr. Gere, knows how to grab an opportunity -- much more subtly, perhaps, but then Mr. Gere didn't exactly raise the bar.

But the "office" comedy doesn't exactly raise its game to match Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, and the acting and direction are desperately plodding and slow.

The attendance of 7,247 at the Madejski Stadium did not quite rival the crowd at Twickenham, where Australia's suffering supporters were not exactly raising glasses to their absent friend, and O'Connor could not prevent Northampton from squeezing a victory and going top of the Premiership for an hour or so.

"Xbox 360's Vision and 2010's Strategy" is the tentative title… not exactly raising the roof with that one, Microsoft, but we'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

Like Rebecca, we conceive of ourselves as strong, independent and far too cool to sacrifice ourselves for male attention, but, also like Rebecca, we weren't exactly raised in a world that fostered those qualities.

A lack of philanthropic tradition in UK schooling, combined with wariness over protecting state funding, are a major factor, together with uncertainty over what exactly funds raised can legitimately be used for.

All that will suit Fifa just fine, even if handing the World Cup to regimes where free speech and a free press are not exactly welcomed raises its own issues.

Yet blaming the kidneys cannot be the full explanation of what is going on, because only half the sufferers respond to blood-pressure-lowering drugs.Uncovering exactly how raised levels of JAM-1 disrupt the brain's ability to control blood pressure is the next step in tackling the disease.

That language — giving the rights of a person to the fertilized egg — is exactly what raises the question of what such a measure would mean for some forms of birth control.

We assessed the clinical circumstances and what exactly had raised their safety concerns, who was involved, whether and how they communicated their concerns, how those involved responded to the participants' actions, whether and how the situation was resolved and whether any consequences resulted from the episode.

Without doubt, the Obama campaign was poised to raise exactly those arguments against Romney in the fall, and just as assuredly, Republicans would have dismissed those attacks as reflective of Democrat ignorance of how the real world works.