Sentence examples for Benchmark established from inspiring English sources

However, in the present study it was lower than the benchmark established by the USEPA, average shale value (ASV) which is 19 mg/kg (Turekian and Wedepohl 1961) and World River System (WRS) (Martin and Meybeck 1979) (Table 3).

This represents an unprecedented opportunity to create hundreds of new veteran jobs within the sector, especially if the 8percentt veteran hiring benchmark established under the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act is honored.

It simply means beating expectations, the benchmark established through a mystical process involving campaign strategists, pundits, donors, academics, analysts – in short, anyone following closely enough to be interviewed by reporters covering the caucuses.

[ 4] But wait times remain a problem; recent Canadian data show that, depending on the province, the median pre-surgery wait time range from 112 to 291 days and still today an important proportion of patients are not operated within six months, the maximum acceptable waiting time benchmark established in Canada.

While comparing testing rates across countries may provide some benchmark, establishing what the appropriate level of recent testing should be is somewhat arbitrary.

A total of 618 schools failed to meet annual testing benchmarks established under No Child Left Behind, which was a slight improvement over the 643 schools cited the year before.

The film, which has its premiere Monday on HBO, observes the 2005 school year at Frederick Douglass High in Baltimore, a troubled institution that has not fared well in meeting the benchmarks established by No Child Left Behind, President Bush's education initiative.

Statewide, a total of 618 schools — or more than one-quarter of the state's 2,430 public schools — were cited in August because too few of their students passed the statewide tests in 2007 under benchmarks established by the federal No Child Left Behind law.

Check out the Benchmarks established by AAAS's Project 2061, and the National Research Council's National Science Education Standards, for more information.

Purchasing data and interviews with the purchasing manager demonstrated the current state of purchasing practice at the University, relative to the benchmarks established in the literature.

The focus of the course was on the process, not the quality of the final product, so assessment was mainly formative except for progress benchmarks established at the beginning of the semester.