Sentence examples for benchmark only from inspiring English sources

Using the peer-group benchmark only pushes pay up and up".

A stock's weight in the Dow depends on its price, which makes the Dow an appropriate benchmark only if you are likelier to buy expensive stocks.

But it is an appropriate benchmark only if the manager focuses only on the few growth stocks -- mostly Internet issues -- that dominate the index.

But that leaves only the most extreme improvements on the other side of the "enhancement" boundary: if our species champions are the benchmark, only interventions that create capacities no human has had before would fall beyond medicine's proper domain.

There are two reasons for this: first, in the benchmark, only 14% of households are in debt when the first child arrives; second, the arrival of children is fully anticipated, and so in the presence of the liquidity constraint, households adjust their consumption in anticipation of their needs when the children are young.

The bill introduced Tuesday does not specify which exams would be used to set the growth benchmark, only saying that students would have to be "college and career ready," echoing the administration's own language.

After fees Coutts clients end up ahead of the benchmark, but only slightly.

Yet among all the alternative gauges, some of the most widely cited data is collected in a patchwork fashion, or checked against benchmarks only once a decade.

But the figure for employed people comes from a sampling of households that is thoroughly benchmarked only once a decade, with the census.

That puts it pretty low on the Chromebook benchmark list, but benchmarks only tells a small part of the story.

For the single- and multi-assay benchmarks, only 4 and 5 comparisons respectively were not found to be statistically significant.