Sentence examples for ambitious benchmarks from inspiring English sources
A declaration to be signed on Friday when the summit meeting ends has set ambitious benchmarks for resolving the global ills of war, disease, poverty and environmental degradation.
Zhu Rongji, the new Prime Minister of China, laid down ambitious benchmarks today for sweeping social change, pledging to make ailing state-owned industries solvent, overhaul the country's banking system and redesign the Government, cutting its staff by half -- all within three years.
That's an ambitious benchmark that will be difficult to achieve, and it's more likely that California will be about average for the year, officials say.
To come close to digging California out of the drought, he estimated, the full Sierra range needs 150% of its average by April — an ambitious benchmark even with all the precipitation so far this winter.
But to come close to digging California out of the drought, the Sierras need 150% of average by April 1, state water officials estimate — an ambitious benchmark that is still a long way off.
More financial and technical resources and more efficient use of them, including a regional focus on Central and West Africa, are therefore critical to enabling countries to accelerate progress and achieve the ambitious benchmark scenario of at least 75% of family planning demand being satisfied with modern methods.
An 8 might be too ambitious a benchmark, Lindley said.
This historic experience suggests that, though ambitious, the benchmark can be achieved even in countries with currently low levels of demand satisfied with modern methods.
The 2015 Paris Agreement vows to cap global warming at "well under" 2C above the pre-Industrial Era benchmark – a hugely ambitious target.
The benchmark is also ambitious: it will only be achieved if progress towards meeting demand for family planning is accelerated, especially in low-income countries.
"It's like, 'Oh we slipped.'" Some NGOs scoff at benchmarks anyway, calling for more ambitious action.
