Sentence examples for benchmark before from inspiring English sources

That has been in part because the outcome of the runoff had been identified as a vital benchmark before Mr. Obama was to announce his military strategy in Afghanistan.

(For example, you could argue that August, 2008, marked the end of a bubble and that a labor force participation rate of 66.1percentnt wasn't sustainable. If you bring it down a percentage point, say, and use that as your benchmark before adjusting for structural changes, you will end up with a "real" unemployment rate of about nine per cent).

Friendster is backed by Kleiner Perkins (and Benchmark before the recap).

It requires that the stock outperform a minimum benchmark before earning a positive score, then accelerates the reward for beating or missing it.

Our objective was to establish the structural characteristics and location, the number of patient visits and flow, and the medical organization and personnel of Swiss EDs in 2006, as a benchmark before emergency medicine became a subspecialty in Switzerland.

Our objective was to establish the number and location of EDs, patient visits and flow, medical staff and organization, and capabilities in 2006, as a benchmark before emergency medicine became a subspecialty in Switzerland.

"People who weren't willing to discuss benchmarks before, now are willing," he said.

He has said Iran would have to meet certain benchmarks before he would get personally involved.

Mr. Steiner has told Albanian leaders that Kosovo will have to meet a series of internationally determined benchmarks before he will allow a discussion about independence.

He said the costly procurement was a lesson to the Home Office, which should ensure that all of its contracts were properly benchmarked before they were awarded.

"The evidence points to the fact that over time, managers do not provide extra profits," says Espen Sirnes of the University of Tromso.How then did the fund manage to beat its benchmarks before the crisis?