The phrase "raise the degree" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to increasing the intensity of something, deepening a commitment, or increasing the level of education obtained. For example: "I'm motivated to raise the degree of my commitment to volunteering in my community."
Mr Gove has said that he wants to raise the degree threshold for teachers and offer "golden hellos" in areas of shortage, like science and language teaching.
And to raise the degree of difficulty, the roster of nominated films is not top-heavy in either audience favorites or ideal comedy material, a problem Mr. Stewart also had to deal with two years ago.
When we'd had our fill of swimming, one of us would pull off a grandiose cannonball before we sprinted to the car, as if to raise the degree of difficulty of our prank.
In general, depending on what A, B, and C mean, adding a premise C to B may substantially raise the degree of support for A, or may substantially lower it, or may leave it completely unchanged i.e., P[A | C·B] may have a value much larger than P[A | B], or a much smaller value, or it may have the same, or nearly the same value as P[A | B].
Because we included only three samples in each group, we applied the RVM t-test, which can effectively raise the degrees of freedom in analyses of small sample sizes to filter the genes that were differentially expressed in PDLSCs and BMSCs.
By that standard, the stimulus package scores well — especially considering that Republican obstructionism raised the degree of difficulty.
Last month, the same experiment was tried with Quicken Loans, though the Haggler raised the degree of difficulty a little.
Forty years ago, Dock Ellis of the Pittsburgh Pirates raised the degree of difficulty to new, well, heights.
As it conducts its online offering, Google is raising the degree of difficulty for investors by not publishing a schedule in advance.
Jesters in a district court in Eagle, Colo., raised the degree of difficulty for a 20-year-old woman who accused Bryant of sexual assault last summer, by mistakenly releasing information from a closed-door pretrial hearing.
I don't think either coalition partner is aware of how high the stakes are being raised, the degree to which they are unnecessarily backing themselves into a corner, and how much the ground has to be prepared before launching the country on the unprecedented path they plan.
