The wall, said Mike Cotter, president of the historical society, "was built by the president -- the most famous and powerful person in the world -- to protect him, making it historic about five seconds after it was built". The anti-wall faction pointed out in court papers that the barrier hadn't aged even half a century, the usual benchmark for declaring something historic.
Mr. Olstein's primary benchmark for gauging value is something called cash return: a company's per-share free cash flow, or cash available after it covers its capital expenditures and working capital needs, divided by its share price.
Do these recommendations establish a new legal benchmark for the standard of care, something Rothstein thinks is a possibility?
Whatever the result, Wiggins says he'd like to leave a benchmark: something for the talented young British riders to aim at.
America used to stand for something in the world – we set a benchmark on human rights.
The long-lasting volume of searches involving her name has made Ms. Spears something of a benchmark for the logs team.
Now, sitting in his Mayfair office, he says that British public schools are internationally acknowledged as setting the benchmark for how a school should be, something state schools should try and replicate.
"It gives us something of a benchmark for the Tonga game".
It's a top-down model, as well as a bottom-up one, and sets the benchmark for brain simulations that actually do something.
The film is now something of a benchmark for measuring the evolution of certain technologies, in how close the appear like the futuristic creations made by special effects in the film.
The first Johannes Vermeer painting to be put up for auction since 1921 was sold at Sotheby's in London for $30 million on Wednesday, setting something of a new benchmark for paintings of its era.
