Sentence examples for beating a target from inspiring English sources

Having worked for Thomas Cook and as an Avon representative, I have always enjoyed the thrill of a sale and I love beating a target.

During the company's conference call with analysts today, Fred Anderson, the chief financial officer, said that Apple had reduced inventory by 300,000, beating a target of 250,000 units and as a result had cut the number of weeks of inventory backlog in half.

A performance fee in a publicly marketed fund must be two-sided: If the manager gets a bonus for beating a target, he has to chip money in when he falls short.

Clarke received the maximum annual bonus, worth 160% of salary, after WHSmith's pretax profit hit £123m to beat a target of £119m.

The project - involving BT, the EU and Cornwall Council - would see 95% hooked up, beating an original target of 80%-90 80%-90sinesses and homes having superfast access by 2014, bosses said.

In most cases, the managers get their one-fifth share only if they beat a performance target.

OO China Cuts Energy Intensity By Nearly 5% In 2014 beating a key energy efficiency target as it tries to reduce pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

The chief executive, Michael Brown, a former Slaughter and May lawyer who collects pay and benefits of £1.3m a year from Foxtons, will be the largest single beneficiary after increasing his stake by beating a string of performance targets.

Muirhead knocked a US stone out of the house to leave seven of hers in the target area, beating a previous record held jointly by the men's teams from Sweden and Canada.

The key skill in OPCAB surgery is to be able to perform coronary anastomoses on a beating target myocardium rather than a stationary one.

That's a dip from August 2015, when Californians reduced their consumption by 27%, beating the target of a 25% reduction set by Gov. Jerry Brown.