Sentence examples for kept the bar from inspiring English sources

In 1999, Mr. Hobson returned to the trade center as a broker for Cantor Fitzgerald, but he kept the bar.

La Rocca said she had kept the bar open "because people live in the area, and they need a place to go".

Although many chefs contributed to Spain's gastronomic revolution, especially Juan Mari Arzak, Santi Santamaría and Andoni Luis Aduriz, it was the sustained daring and smart marketing of Mr. Adrià himself that kept the bar rising.

Admittedly, my parents kept the bar fairly low back then, but that lump of creme-filled chocolate cake covered in a coconut coating that I believe was one molecule away from being rubber, chemically speaking, was pure heaven.

From his spot at the end of the bar the man whose drinking habit kept the bar afloat was ideally placed to survey Cheers' particular brand of quirky clientele and beer-fuelled banter.

Upstairs, Mr. Kuhn and officials from Fox Searchlight Pictures, the film's distributor, simply kept the bar open -- not for as long a one-hour photo place would take to process a roll of film, but only an extra 20 minutes or so.

It's up to us to keep the bar raised.

The more they compromise, they say, the higher Israel keeps the bar.

"My philosophy is to go big, keep the bar high and be patient," Mr. Franklin said.

One sees why some businesses would like to keep the bar defining consent as low as possible.

Chris Cannon said he had been able to keep the bar open because his family owned the building.