1.   And on Oscar night, with her sleek, neat hair and simple diamonds, Paltrow set the bar for everyone else.

2.   As high as the new media and market forces set the bar for performance, panelists said, old realities still hold creativity back.

3.   But these inevitable comparisons, which set the bar pretty high, may ultimately be just what the show needs to make its mark.

4.   Dance students like the fact that Bujones sets the bar high.

5.   For the second, choosing only the best up-and-coming talent, Neaves is setting his bar high.

6.   Having set the bar, he now must clear it.

7.   Going in, LaBarga has set legal bar very high.

8.   He set the bar at a certain level, and those young kids are practicing very hard to hit the ball as far as he does.

9.   His fierce integrity and depth of intellect have set the bar.

10.   Hughes had set the bar.