Sentence examples for a negative benchmark from inspiring English sources
Not because she had a disabled child, but because the number of SEN children was a negative benchmark.
Amid the hubbub, Thorning-Schmidt might have been making jokes about the impact of the negative benchmark rate on the Danish krone, or gossiping about Xi Jinping.
Predictive testing strategies are useful for comparative hazard and risk characterization against toxicologically well-defined positive and negative benchmark materials involving studies in rodents, cells, and cell-free (abiotic) assays.
A Pew poll asked respondents about a series of negative benchmarks often associated with aging: illness, memory loss, an inability to drive, an end to sexual activity, a struggle with loneliness and depression, and difficulty paying bills.
Young and middle-aged adults anticipate the "negative benchmarks" associated with aging (such as memory loss, illness, or an end to sexual activity) at much higher levels than the old report experiencing them.
We also constructed a negative dataset (a benchmark dataset is not available for such studies) to assess the specificity of the methodology.
"Unfortunately, a negative return is outperforming" that benchmark in the last 18 months, he said.
A few ground rules: We required that each stock start the year above $5, have a negative return for the period measured and materially underperform its industry benchmark.
They found that after fees, three-quarters of the funds exhibited zero alpha, a fund's excess return over a benchmark index, with virtually all the remaining having a negative alpha.
"There have been several times where we spent a year or more talking about a negative savings rate" — meaning consumers spent more than they took in — "only to get benchmark revisions to the data," Mr. Hoyt said.
