Sentence examples for set a high mark from inspiring English sources

(The $40 late fee could be around the corner: Direct Merchants Bank, a unit of the Metris Companies, set a high mark in 2002 by raising its late fee to $39).

The roughly 42 million people who tuned in to his first show set a high mark for the eight years that followed, unbroken until DeGeneres' telecast in 2014.

The inaugural convoy set a high bar.

Several other dishes set a high standard.

Mr Ilves has set a high bar.

All of that set a high bar.

In both Europe and in Canada the war that was fought from August 1914 to November 1918 is the Great War, whose barbarity and senselessness were felt to set a high-water mark for all the wars that followed.

But if Bush's tough-love approach set a high-water mark for the potential power of the United States to play the honest broker in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, his re-election loss in 1992 deprived him of the opportunity to follow through on it.

M Night Shyamalan must have thought he'd endured the worst reviews of his career for his 2006 movie, Lady in the Water ("This cloying piece of claptrap sets a high-water mark for pomposity, condescension, false profundity and true turgidity" – Wall Street Journal).

NASA provided a sunrise photo of the four-wing, two-tail craft — described as a modified 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft — along with a short history of the space shuttle program on its Web site: NASA's space shuttle fleet began setting records with its first launch on April 12 , 1981and continued to set high marks of achievement and endurance through 30 years of missions.

NASA writes, "NASA's space shuttle fleet began setting records with its first launch on April 12 , 1981and continues to set high marks of achievement and endurance.