Sentence examples for a low benchmark from inspiring English sources

Familiar failings undermined a display that was an improvement on recent offerings, a low benchmark admittedly.

Volatile markets have enabled their managers to make big bets and the lower returns of the broader markets finally offer a low benchmark.

Setting a low benchmark for new Russian government debt could help commercial borrowers refinance at better rates, as the overall country risk would appear lower.

He points to Essex, Cornwall, Hampshire, Leeds and other councils lauded for the improvements they have made to children's social care, often from a low benchmark.

A more limited option would be for the Fed to extend its commitment to a low benchmark interest rate, now near zero, into 2015 from late 2014.

But current investment is a low benchmark, the authors argue, and inadequate to close the development gap between rich countries and poor ones, much less contend with climate change as a multiplier.

"That's a pretty low benchmark," his boss replies, insisting he had put on a fresh shirt, tie, suit and pair of socks.

The banking system is therefore more resilient to economic shocks". While it may be true that many large banks are better capitalized, less leveraged, and more liquid than in the years before the crisis, that is a very low benchmark.

But that's a pathetically low benchmark.

When the bank's governing council meets on Thursday, the hopes of recessionary Europe are pinned to its doing something to stimulate the regional economy — even if that is only the largely symbolic step of reducing its already historically low benchmark interest rate a quarter-percentage point, to 0.5 percent.

"Nevertheless, the fact remains that about 6% of students are not reaching the low benchmark in Pirls 2016, a proportion similar to Pirls 2011.