Sentence examples for a specific benchmark from inspiring English sources

One idea gaining ground is the imposition of a "hurdle rate," which sets a specific benchmark a manager must overcome to receive his incentive fee at the end of the year.

Accordingly, as a first step, we compute the experimental throughput of the aforementioned stand-alone OFDM transmission, to obtain a specific benchmark to evaluate the performance of the primary transmission, when coexisting with the secondary CIA transmission.

ARM An acronym for adjustable rate mortgage, a type of mortgage in which the interest you pay on your outstanding balance rises and falls based on a specific benchmark.

The effect size could be used as a specific benchmark or standard for interpreting difference in changes between two groups.

Passive ETFs are index funds designed to track a specific benchmarks, such as the SPDR.

Rics denied that it was seeking to impose any specific benchmark on private-sector rent rises, and head of policy Jeremy Blackburn said: "We do not recommend that a government introduce a ceiling on rent increases".

They all have a very specific benchmark of beauty: as in the image of the woman with the weights, women to aspire to are young, blonde, white, toned, tanned and thin.

In what is believed to be a first for a public broadcaster, SBS journalists now have a specific ratings benchmark in their performance reviews.

The central bank said that it would continue the asset purchases until it was satisfied the program had worked, but it did not designate a time frame or a specific economic benchmark for when it would stop.

These promising results encouraged us to apply the same approach on our collection of digitized historic documents, without having a specific evaluation benchmark.

Of course, the results are fully contextual for this specific benchmark, but nonetheless provide an estimation of the relative performance of the considered algorithms.