Sentence examples for benchmark for setting from inspiring English sources
Libor is used as a benchmark for setting financial contracts and interest rates around the world.
The yield is a common benchmark for setting interest rates on corporate debt and mortgages.
But this is not a simple task, particularly when it involves assets with risk exposures far into the future and which are traded so rarely that there is no good market benchmark for setting the price.
A foreign diplomat recalls that his unauthorised attempt to inspect one "almost caused a riot", with officials quickly ushering him away.By using the farmers' markets as a benchmark for setting grain prices, the government is heading in the right direction.
The prime rate, which banks use as a benchmark for setting rates on many business loans, particularly to smaller companies, and for such consumer loans as credit card and home-equity lines of credit, has been 61/2percentnt since late December.
The product of the oilfield, Brent Crude, is used as a benchmark for setting oil prices in the North Sea sector.
Postdoctoral salaries have improved since the mid-1990s as NIH increased its minimum fellowship stipend levels--often used as benchmarks for setting stipends from other sources--to nearly $37,000 for new Ph.D.s compared with just $20,000 in 1997.
Mr. Nelson and Ms. Williams deserve credit for setting a benchmark for improvements, particularly in the long-neglected area of customer service and an informed ridership.
Some of the outcomes being achieved by FBOs have the potential for setting new benchmarks for their secular counterparts.
The impact on the coverage with GO annotation caused by the removal of unrelated GO terms from functional profiles was already described for benchmark set 2. For benchmark set 3, term filtering reduces the coverage to 36 59% in the cross-validations (Supplementary Table S4).
The AUC and sensitivity for benchmark set 3 are generally higher than for benchmark set 2 using the same annotation strategy for both sets.
