The Moto Z2 Play ups the ante, but only slightly.
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With each new iPhone, Apple ups the ante on imaging.
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Spike Lee's movie ups the ante of the true story.
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But Senate File 359, or the "heartbeat bill," ups the ante.
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The movie, directed by Fatih Akin, ups the ante for grossness.
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Unlimited Premium ups the ante a little, but it's still extremely slow.
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After Anna chugs a beer, she ups the ante by huffing keyboard cleaner.
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Her second track "I Ain't Goin Nowhere," ups the ante and the pace.
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When it comes to delivering an immersive experience, Ms. Ziegler ups the ante.
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He ups the ante with each tweet, making grandiose and often ridiculous statements.
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"If he ups the ante in any way, it's much higher," Zandi said.
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The Washington Post report, if true, ups the ante in Trump's already risky game.
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"It ups the ante by combining it with customization, immersion and sustainability," says Upchurch.
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The exhibit takes the same salon-style concept as Resents and ups the ante.
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Google ups the ante But Google does not intend to give up ground to anyone.
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Chico's ups the ante on this fabric by making their linen shirt wrinkle-resistant, too.
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The V10 Plus ups the ante to 602 horsepower and an official 3.2 seconds to 60.
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She doesn't seem to be bleeding herself, so maybe Offred ups the ante this upcoming season.
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And then there is Rechmaoui, who ups the ante by underlining unbridled human intervention and greed.
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With the dark realism of Cracked Screen: A Snapchat Story, filmmaker Trimaan Lamba ups the ante.
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Steadier pacing also ups the ante on the manhunt to catch, and later simply to kill, Escobar.
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He ups the ante by insisting upon nominating a new Supreme Court justice who is against guns.
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As we reported ... Pam released a similar PSA last year, but this one definitely ups the ante.
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North Korea threatens war with U.S. in propaganda film Raised stakes The recent test certainly ups the ante.
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Rogue One ups the ante, switching between massive space combat, ground warfare, and a claustrophobic espionage heist sequence.
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That ups the ante when you're buying for fans of those drinks — especially if you're not a fan yourself.
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"Winged Victory" is often viewed as a model of form and movement; Banerjee's "Viola" ups the ante several fold.
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Customer, enraged at my lack of judgment and empathy, ups the ante: How are you boors still in business??
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In one video, he even ups the ante by using three cups filled with what is presumably hot tea.
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Trump's move ups the ante on an increasingly tense trade war that's causing growing fallout in the stock market.
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But, being Madge, she'll want to do it with a twist — something that ups the ante beyond the traditional deal.
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Gus offers to pay for her coffee, and she immediately ups the ante: "And a pack of cigarettes," she orders.
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She says that whenever a skater adds a new jump or a tricky combination, it ups the ante for everyone.
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Naturally, Blake Lively sees your canvas and tempera paint and ups the ante with her foray into the art world.
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In 2016, WeWork launched WeLive, which takes the premise of coworking and ups the ante by having members live together.
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From the look of the exclusive trailer above, season 2, which premieres on the streaming service July 11, ups the ante.
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While the series' most iconic elements are all lovingly preserved, Civilization VI ups the ante with a host of new features.
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On "Cold" — a standout from his major label debut album, "Stoney," which was released today — he ups the ante even further.
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"I can't tell you the House will move into impeachment mode right away, but this really ups the ante," he said.
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This extra material is fast, and it 'ups the ante' in terms of the total energy of an already powerful stellar blast.
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"To show that there's more and more features being released, that ups the ante in the pot," Gartner analyst Craig Roth said.
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Single or spoken for, the thrill-seeking energy of Venus and Mars in Aries ups the ante on everyone's V-Day game.
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The lack of an attorney general and the firing of the acting one further ups the ante on the Senate's vote on Sessions.
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Dovey ups the ante, challenge-wise, as her character practices unorthodox techniques of self-discovery with the therapist doing much of the talking.
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But the arrival of the chef and restaurateur Tom Colicchio at the Roosevelt Field shopping center in Nassau County definitely ups the ante.
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The movie also has the unfortunate timing to arrive right after "The Meg," which ups the ante size-wise on summer shark fare.
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What really ups the ante are the heart-shaped fibers, which are the first to be formulated in the U.S., emulsified inside Kush's formula.
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The Note 9 ups the ante with notably better battery life and the S Pen, but only one of those will be universally appreciated.
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That ups the ante for banks in general, with the opportunity for growth a rare luxury that most financial institutions only can dream about.
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Mr. Thurber ups the ante with cinematic allusions ("The Lady From Shanghai") that feel like reviewer bait, and wouldn't you know, I took it.
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Zwelley ups the ante even more by keeping things analog and effortful by using a base of hand-drawn illustrations before applying any technology.
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The Drake: Rewriting the Rules documentary which was just released on various streaming sites, ups the ante and is as neutral as a beige tracksuit.
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But when it comes to the biggest discount day of the entire calendar year (aka Black Friday) our favorite retail store truly ups the ante.
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Omagari follows Muroga's forward with a preface that ups the ante, focusing on the 8×8-pixel plane, which he poetically likens to an infinity symbol.
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Automakers have long constructed fake urban environments to test their vehicles, but Toyota's Woven City ups the ante with a real city populated by actual people.
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Every week Barry ups the ante for our protagonist, stretching Hader's airtight performance over a masterful slow burn plot line like the skin of a drum.
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Jake (Jake Weisman) gets an irritating co-worker, and after their boss ups the ante on a project, Matt (Matt Ingebretson) and Jake forge their own paths.
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Companies like Splice and Yamaha's VST Connect Pro have presented solutions for musicians to collaborate, no matter where they are in the world, but Sessionwire ups the ante.
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It's a romantic drama that ups the ante over your typical rom-com with drastic stakes for those who don't fall in love: they turn into animals forever.
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Photograph by Dolly Faibyshev for The New Yorker Ordering crawfish as a "combo," jumbled with sweet-fleshed snow-crab legs or head-on shrimp, further ups the ante.
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An all-electric luxury model from a Dutch startup called Lightyear ups the ante with a claimed 7.5 miles of extra range for every hour of full sun.
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Ashley Gold and Christopher Stern lay out some reasons why in The Information: The states' involvement ups the ante for Google parent Alphabet and Facebook in multiple ways.
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Wind River follows Hell Or High Water in spotlighting the fading culture of Native Americans living on underprivileged reservations, and the new film ups the ante on the theme.
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Whitten ups the ante in "Lucy" by positioning her narrow curves atop several blocks of mahogany, stone, and metal, materially suggesting that her roots encompass disparate continents and cultures.
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" Clinton ups the ante after echoing Sanders' call for Snyder to resign: "But that is not enough, we must focus on what should be done for people of Flint.
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Along the way, he ups the ante by finding what he calls "astonishing" parallels between the Quran and early Christian texts, though such astonishment seems unnecessary to this reader.
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While standard Froot Loops are already a Technicolor addition to any breakfast, the unicorn version is a little more subdued, but ups the ante when it comes to trendy hues.
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She's one of the most powerful people in rap, and here she ups the ante, wearing body armor which makes her look like the futuristic rap game Xena Warrior Princess.
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The latest salvo by Labour ups the ante in Britain's volatile political scene less than a month out from the election, in which Credit Suisse believes Tories currently have the edge.
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But it ups the ante with a "ping" system for speedy in-game communication (that other games are starting to copy) and unique "Legend abilities" that give each character an edge.
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When a movie ups the ante visually and narratively at every opportunity, it's no longer striving for coherence or scintillating social critique — it's trying to evoke something emotional in the audience.
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The latest move ups the ante in the long-running battle between Norske Skog's unsecured and secured bondholders, which has sparked accusations of nefarious use of credit default swaps on both sides.
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With "Intralocutors," her extensive show at the Miguel Abreu Gallery on the Lower East Side, Ms. Goldberg considerably ups the ante, incorporating the figure and cribbing from art history and the Bible.
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We loved the original Breville Smart Grinder, and this step-up model ($1503) ups the ante with 2150 settings that can grind super-fine espresso, chunky French-press grounds, and everything in between.
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We loved the original Breville Smart Grinder, and this step-up model ($2115) ups the ante with 2150 settings that can grind super-fine espresso, chunky French-press grounds, and everything in between.
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Cross-strait ties were already at their frostiest in eight years; this phone call to Trump ups the ante at a sensitive time for China, which will soon undergo its own leadership transition.
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She's trained harder than ever for this film, and the results show; plus, the added bonus of Sofia's pair of Malinois attack dogs ups the ante in terms of animal combat in this series.
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We love this not only because we love to be comfortable whenever possible, but also because adding sneakers to an unexpected outfit — think sneakers with flowery maxi dress, or a cool suit — automatically ups the ante.
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Washington's latest move, which comes just days after both countries imposed tit-for-tat tariffs on $295.630 billion of each other's goods, ups the ante in a heated trade dispute that has rattled global financial markets.
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Washington's latest move, which comes just days after both countries imposed tit-for-tat tariffs on $20.12 billion of each other's goods, ups the ante in a heated trade dispute that has rattled global financial markets.
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Shows often use holiday-themed episodes as an opportunity to bring all their characters together under one roof, and The OC ups the ante by using the Chrismukkah setting to reveal a long-buried family secret.
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The plutonium-based atomic weapons it tested up until this point were powerful enough -- the United States dropped such weapons on Japan to end World War II -- but a hydrogen bomb ups the ante many times over.
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However, the really nice bit about putting up a paywall is it ups the ante in terms of the whole editorial team, I think, feels a much stronger responsibility now that people are paying for this stuff.
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The tie-up provides "tremendous help" for Xiaomi as it ups the ante in home appliances, wrote Xiaomi founder and CEO Lei Jun on Weibo, China's closest answer to Twitter, in a reply to TCL's CEO Li Dongsheng.
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And while the military installations on Guam have always been some of the most strategically important bases in US Pacific Command's portfolio, the US Army's decision to permanently deploy a THAAD battery to the island ups the ante.
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Written by John Sayles and directed by David Petrarca, this week's episode ups the ante for its main characters considerably, in a fashion grimly familiar to fans of genre fiction: It killed off the male lead's love interest.
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And PixelatedBoat ups the ante with each paragraph to the point where not only has Trump's staff constructed a special TV tower to deliver this fake channel, the fictional Trump is bored with it because the gorillas aren't fighting.
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That particular brand of humor is a big part of what's missing from the series' latest installment, Men In Black: International, a modern update that ups the ante on the special effects and takes the action around the world.
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Just when someone might assume the Google Deep Dream neural network is a bit of a novelty, programmer and artist Johan Nordberg ups the ante by giving Deep Dream visuals motion, sending the viewer into a psychedelic, fractalized infinity.
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Without breaking eye contact, she ups the ante with a truly remarkable story about fandom, recounting how she begged her boyfriend to sublet the apartment of a female musician she admires, so that she could go over and touch the woman's things.
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Heidi reminds Colin the consequences of pulling someone off the medication (panic attacks, hallucinations), and that they've seen them before (has Homecoming hurt other patients?) As Heidi resists on Shreir's behalf, Colin ups the ante and suggests Walter be removed the program, too.
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That ups the ante on his appearance with this pristine ensemble at Carnegie Hall in the lovelorn second act of Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde," a work he has not yet sung onstage, with the soprano Camilla Nylund and the conductor Andris Nelsons.
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The VR experience is a collaboration between Oculus and Alcon Entertainment, and while the title is now available on both the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift, the San Diego installation ups the ante by incorporating D-Box motion simulator chairs into the mix.
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The move ups the ante for Republicans, who have pushed investigators to open a case into perjury charges against Clinton since the Justice Department announced last month that it would not indict the former secretary of State or her aides for mishandling classified information.
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China's commerce ministry said it was "shocked" by Washington's latest move, which comes just days after both countries imposed tit-for-tat tariffs on $23 billion of each other's goods, and ups the ante in a heated trade dispute that has rattled global financial markets.
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China's commerce ministry said it was "shocked" by Washington's latest move, which comes just days after both countries imposed tit-for-tat tariffs on $20.34 billion of each other's goods, and ups the ante in a heated trade dispute that has rattled global financial markets.
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"As part of our ever-growing, ever-popular 90 Day Fiancé franchise, this new series ups the ante with all the drama, emotions and fish-out-of-water feelings our passionate 90 Day fans crave," Howard Lee, president and general manager of TLC, says in a statement.
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"The returning iconic competition series ups the ante this year, when the one-and-only Martha Stewart joins the cast as a judge, bringing her food expertise, impeccable credentials and discerning critique to the judges' table," a statement from Discovery, which has recently acquired Scripps, read.
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"As part of our ever-growing, ever-popular 90 Day Fiancé franchise, this new series ups the ante with all the drama, emotions and fish-out-of-water feelings our passionate 90 Day fans crave," Howard Lee, president and general manager of TLC, said in a statement.
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With its stigmata and stabbing shock-cuts, "Black Swan" is "Grand Guignol with pretensions to class," and "Flesh and Bone" ups the ante with incest, self-mutilation, Russian mobsters and fancy-ass pole-dancing, reducing the ballerina to a tormented butterfly pinned by the Male Gaze.
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Although online travel agency pricing can be tempting, airlines and hotels will usually match those rates through programs like Marriott's Best Rate Guarantee (which throws in a 25 discount and 5,000 Bonvoy points) and Delta's Best Fare Guarantee (which ups the ante with a $100 voucher).
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That seemingly endless font of creativity is on full display here, as this latest album thoroughly ups the ante; their hardcore influences muscle through more than usual, the black metal sections ramp up to warp speed, and their whiplash-inducing drummer appears to have gone full cyborg.
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AquaSonic Black Series toothbrush and travel case — $33.99 with code SEMIANNUAL See Details This electric toothbrush ups the ante with a three-mode smart-timing vibrator that will guide you through each zone of your mouth, making sure every tooth gets the attention it needs to thrive and shine.
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It comes in two versions: a $215,4.83 model with a Core i24.8 processor, 215GB of RAM, a 2280GB SSD, and a 1TB HDD, or the one I've been testing, which costs $4,999 and ups the ante with a Core i9 processor, 64GB of RAM, and three 512GB SSDs.
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Well, partly because the style affects athletes' images, and partly because the items are available now in Adidas stores (what we see on court is what may soon be coming to a weekend player's closet near you), and partly because it ups the ante, trendwise, for the U.S. Open.
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And as Mai Pham points out, some of the best grub at these restaurants go beyond crawfish: Houston's LA Crawfish franchise throws crawfish right into the pho, while another local favorite, Wild Cajun, ups the ante with crawfish eggrolls and a super-traditional cua rang me, or tamarind crab.
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"Although the scheduling of Timberlake is noteworthy on its own terms, the ongoing disputes regarding kneeling during the national anthem, the NFL's treatment of Colin Kaepernick, the suspension of Jemele Hill, and the ubiquitous policing of people of color within and beyond sports ups the ante," she says.
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Of course, no Lego landmark would be complete without a gift shop, but this one ups the ante with a restaurant and a huge 2,000-square-meter open-air meeting spot called Lego Square where fans can congregate and compare their Lego builds while they're actually surrounded by a life-size Lego build.
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Instead of just having him pick the woman he wants to get engaged too, Quinn ups the ante by constructing a scenario where the new couple will get married for real, on live TV. But there's another twist: She tells both the remaining girls, Chantal and Tiffany, that they are the one that Darius picked.
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The OG video doesn't feature Twain doing much dancing, but Graham's performance ups the ante in that department, with her crawling on the stage like a seductive feline and whipping her high ponytail as a group of backup dancers that look like they came from a shift at Coyote Ugly work the crowd behind her.
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Not only has Trump "pretty much single-handedly brought back the coat as a principal player," Bennett wrote that she ups the ante on styling by just perching the coat on her shoulders, which limits her range of motion, but also highlights that she is able to get doors opened and things carried for her.
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His perspective on Putin's cyber hacking and NATO is particularly of note: Why it matters: The crux of the issue in coming months will be determining whether it was an act of war, which ups the ante in terms of the ways countries can respond to being attacked, some of which can be all-out military responses.
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The critical difference, of course, is that the Quadro P6000 is a high-end professional graphics card designed for workstations, versus the consumer-oriented and gaming-focused Titan X. Both are based on Nvidia's new Pascal architecture, but the P6000 ups the ante to 12 teraflops of single-precision performance (versus 11 teraflops for the Titan X), with more graphics cores and a larger and faster bank of onboard memory.
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"It ups the ante, and demonstrates a very strong commitment to the government of Syria," said Rachel Stohl, director of the Conventional Defense Program at the Stimson Center in Washington DC. Cover image: Sukhoi Su-57 jet multirole fighter aircraft in flight during an air display event as part of the 2017 Forsazh [Forsage] aviation festival marking the 105th anniversary of the establishment of the Russian Air Force in Patriot Park.
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Just when you thought strong-arm leader X had ended the argument by posing shirtless on a horse or dictatorial leader Y had won the day by demanding that women be locked up in their homes and never let out, just when all those pictures of Russian leaders posing with professional mixed martial artists had started to leave you cold and unimpressed, Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of the Russian Republic of Chechnya, ups the ante to impossible levels by broadcasting an MMA tournament featuring boys as young as 8—three of them his own sons.
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