Convictions, he argues, are supported by invoking "received authorities, sacred texts, exemplary achievements and generally accepted benchmarks".
All will "pursue the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) LEED Certification, the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction, and operation of high performance green buildings".
Dr. Berry cautioned that more study is needed before mile times could be used as an accepted benchmark of cardiovascular risk.
Perhaps fearful of appearing to backtrack, the agency adjusted its data, reduced the accepted benchmark for cause and effect and eliminated some studies, before officially releasing the report.
While research exists on various funds' history, there is no accepted benchmark for comparison and no agreement on what constitutes success, wealth preservation or high returns.
London's Mayor Sadiq Khan rightly took pride that under his watch – and with powerful use of the bully pulpit – the real Living Wage increasingly became the accepted benchmark in some mass-employing sectors like retail and hospitality.
These recommendations, which were initially drawn up in 1990 and revised in 1996, have become an internationally accepted benchmark in this area.Second, the monitoring mechanisms of the task-force, notably the mutual-evaluation procedure, have helped to expedite the enactment of money-laundering counter-measures in many of our member countries.
But just how well these alternative investment vehicles stack up against stocks, bonds and mutual funds is difficult to gauge, because there is no generally accepted benchmark for measuring the performance of the nearly 6,000 hedge funds now operating around the world.
The word count application is a widely accepted benchmark in MapReduce implementations.
It is unclear how the set of policy leavers would be defined if revealed preferences are no longer the accepted benchmark for 'true' preferences.
