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"The bar has been raised somewhat," said Adrian Cronje, the chief investment officer of Balentine.

Under Obamacare, the income eligibility thresholds for Medicaid were raised somewhat, enabling about fourteen million people to get covered.

19 Who is the leader of Plaid Cymru, whose profile was raised somewhat during the pre-election debates?

For now, even so, the stakes inevitably seem to have been raised somewhat when O'Brien Jnr rides Battle Of Marengo in the P W McGrath Memorial Ballysax Stakes at Leopardstown, a race targeted in years past for some of Ballydoyle's very best horses, not least Galileo himself.

Shrewdly, the Eastmans understood the judge's prejudices; they raised, somewhat unfairly, an unrelated tax suit that Klein was involved in in America, and in general painted such an unpleasant picture of him that the court ruled in favor of placing the Beatles in receivership.

"I was raised somewhat Catholic and parted ways with it in college," he says.

In a tight economy with high unemployment, employers tend to give raises somewhat grudgingly.

It zips from the Gothic grandeur of Jordan College, the Oxford institution where Lyra has been raised and somewhat educated by her guardians ("Scholars"), to Mrs. Coulter's swank London home, where the Art Deco touches bring to mind the dreamiest Astaire-and-Rogers cheek-to-cheek.

Altogether, Andreessen Horowitz has now raised a somewhat stunning $6.2 billion.

LivingSocial, a key rival to Groupon, has raised a somewhat incredible $924 million to date.

Having financial clout behind Chilton has undoubtedly helped him during his fledgling career to date, but has once again raised the somewhat taboo subject in Formula 1 of the 'pay driver' - someone who brings with him funding and sponsorship to help finance a team.