Sentence examples for benchmark of progress from inspiring English sources

President Bush set enactment of a national oil law that centralizes development and ensures an equitable division of the profits as a key benchmark of progress.

But as criticism of the assault has risen, it has brought into question another American benchmark of progress in Iraq: political reconciliation.

They can provide a useful benchmark of progress, especially for children (or their parents!), and some adults like the focus or personal challenge that exams offer.

While few expect the process to be perfect, electing a new president to replace the two-term Hamid Karzai has become a crucial benchmark of progress.

Re "A Benchmark of Progress, Electrical Grid Fails Iraqis" ("What Is Left Behind" series, front page, Aug. 2): Before the United States disengagement from Iraq, some in the administration devoted a fair amount of deliberation over the nature and type of United States government support for the renewal of the Iraqi electricity sector.

House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md). said the goals outlined yesterday "will serve as a benchmark of progress to ensure accountability". Some of Obama's plans are aimed at working-class citizens; one would expand COBRA, the temporary health-care program that newly unemployed workers can get when they lose their health insurance.

So far, these problems have proved insurmountable, and the oil law, one of President Bush's benchmarks of progress in Iraq, has stalled.

Both parties said the critical question would be how or whether to hold the Iraqis responsible for meeting benchmarks of progress.

A boycott would frustrate attempts to push through crucial legislation sought by Congress as benchmarks of progress in Iraq, and would be a serious setback to reconciliation between the country's Shiite majority and its once ruling Sunni Arab minority.

The Embassy is about to take this issue up again with Masi in an effort to kindle more policy interest in the Berlusconi government so as to secure commitments in publicly enunciated policy, popular education on the issues, enforcement, and benchmarking of progress.

The Global Gender Gap Report provides annual benchmarks of progress toward parity between men and women in four areas: educational attainment; health and survival; economic opportunity; and political empowerment.