Sentence examples for seems a high from inspiring English sources

This seems a high hurdle".

This now seems a high hurdle.

Society's scorn seems a high price to pay for an act of light forgery.

In the understatement of The Economist, that record "now seems a high hurdle" for the Supreme Court to overturn.

It seems a high price to pay for Lisbon, a treaty that many officials privately describe as a second-rate compromise.It may not come to this.

A major dent in the BBC's reputation for public service broadcasting seems a high price to pay for putting a minor blip in the ratings decline of BBC1.

Confusing the judges seems a high-risk strategy but the pair were neither serial champions nor among the big favourites here.

Yet asking the Cas effectively to place the suspension on hold seems a high-risk strategy considering the first month of his ban covers the close season.

By most measures, of course, the postwar years seemed a high point for the American university.

Capital preservation does not seem a high priority for many Americans, even those in or near retirement, some advisers say.

What had seemed a high rent at Lane's when he was paid for odd jobs was now a modest amount compared to what he was earning.