Sentence examples for benchmark rather than a from inspiring English sources

The MP for Newcastle Central, Jim Cousins, took a more statesmanlike line, believing that Scottish expenditure was a benchmark, rather than a target.

Unlike the national minimum wage, the living wage is an informal benchmark rather than a legally-enforceable minimum level of pay.

And so using a quasi-bronze plan as the benchmark rather than a silver plan means reducing the financial assistance people get to buy insurance.

However, the aim of this study was to determine the correlation between any dynamic characteristic [ 14– 19] and crystallization propensity, and thus each individual characteristic of amino acids was used as a benchmark rather than all individual amino acid characteristics being used together in a model.

In short, the QCA method presents as a possibly valuable small- N adjunct method for benchmarking, rather than a singular solution to the challenges that beset a measurement-minded age.

Clinton presented to the voting public with a modest kind of righteousness, as if that was the required benchmark, rather than brute, cut-through persuasiveness – a sanguine disposition which seemed premature, given the gruelling contest is only now entering the decisive phase.

And an increasing number of "best college" rankings, such as those produced by the Washington Monthly, are using civic engagement as a benchmark, rather than acceptance rates, reputation and other traditional measures that tend to favor elite institutions.

During this period, the fund will track a "transition benchmark" rather than the official technology benchmark.

There's a lot to give him vertigo: stock indexes driven upward by only a handful of companies (see chart); investors more attentive to a company's price appreciation than its earnings growth; risk defined as deviation from a statistical benchmark rather than potential for loss; valuations at double replacement cost.

As a result of the budget, benefits and tax credits will also be increased in line with the CPI benchmark, rather than the RPI measure.

But that version, which perhaps may become the benchmark rather than its untethered cousin, is still under development, so for that and other reasons it was never going to be as strong.