"raising high" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe someone or something that is achieving something or succeeding in a particular endeavour. For example, "The new CEO is raising the company's profits high, creating jobs for many people in the process."
"Some of those who were raising high decibel levels were not restored".
That is progress of a sort, albeit not the sort that poses the slightest danger of raising high expectations.
Far more interesting, he might suggest, would be to attack him in the name of liberal democracy, raising high the banner of principle, invoking reason, fairness and truth.
Both emphasize raising high school graduation rates, for instance, as well as improving teacher training and efforts to help failing schools.
Tatyana Leshova, 53, and Valery Mikhailov, 57, stood amid a crowd raising high blue flags emblazoned with the words "Russian Milk".
A plan that fixed these schools, raising high school graduation and college-going rates, would pay enormous dividends for the country as a whole.
We desperately need to decrease disparity in incomes, but this would be far better accomplished by raising high-bracket income tax rates, not by trying to over-regulate the profoundly valuable activities that produce that income.
Last month, Diane Ravitch, an education scholar who has emerged as the most potent critic of the reform movement, wrote an Op-Ed for this newspaper arguing that raising high-poverty schools to consistently high levels of proficiency is much more difficult and less common than reformers make it out to be.
But an opportunity exists to control the potential excessive growth in these types of banks with access to almost unlimited financing in the form of debt, but with serious difficulties (from the supply and/or demand side) in raising high-quality capital.
As hands-on early stage investors begin to see "institutional advisors" getting significant equity for services (which they likely consider themselves to be providing, as well), and also see founders raising high-priced, rolling valuation convertible notes, I believe this environment has eroded the "one price, one round" standard.
Arts education increases employment rates by raising high-school graduation rates.
