Sentence examples for benchmark for many from inspiring English sources

The intellectual capital of Harvard Business School has been a benchmark for many other business schools to emulate and follow.

The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, the benchmark for many widely held investments like mutual funds, suffered a loss for the quarter of nearly 10percentt.

Inclusion in the index, a benchmark for many money managers, would be expected to increase demand for shares and drive up prices.

The retail price index measure of inflation, used as the benchmark for many pay deals, rose to 3.3% from 3.1% in May.

The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, the benchmark for many portfolio managers, rose 24.97 points, or 2.07percentto to 1,228.54, its third straight record.

The three-month dollar London interbank offered rate, or Libor, a benchmark for many types of loans and mortgages, fell to a multiyear low of 0.66percentt on May 21.

Those rates inched up, to 2.95 percent with an average of.05 points, as the Fed began replacing $400 billion of its short-term Treasury securities, which serve as benchmarks for many ARMs, Mr. Nothaft said.

The rights of children, their agency, and their "superior interest" have gradually emerged as benchmarks for many national, regional, or local policy narratives, in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), adopted in 1989.

The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, the benchmark index for many investors, slid 3.47percentt, and the technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index fell 3.86percentt.

The rising yield of the Treasury's 10-year note, which is the benchmark rate for many home mortgages, has also put a damper on refinancing in that market.

The benchmark index for many mutual funds, retirement plans and investment professionals has climbed 9.9% since Dec. 24.