Ireland boss Joe Schmidt believes England set the Six Nations "benchmark" with victory over Wales, leaving his side already chasing to keep up and hold on to their title.
It's genuinely inspiring to watch athletes overcome obstacles, whether that means setting new benchmarks, earning victories against superior competition, or refusing to accept the limitations of their bodies.
In what's being billed as a benchmark Kansas legal victory, a non-biological lesbian mother has been granted the same parental rights as the biological mother of two children.
The White House hailed on Tuesday the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops out of Iraq's cities but declined to qualify the benchmark as a victory, or even a success, in the six-year-long war.
His childhood heroes, Stephen Hendry (seven) and Steve Davis (six) set the benchmark for World Championship victories.
Her actual 9-point margin of victory underachieved that benchmark by 13 points.
The stock market went giddy over the Modi victory, with the benchmark Sensex index rising 6.1percentt and hitting a record high of over 25,340 on Friday before settling to 24,121 at the close of trading on the Bombay Stock Exchange.
If the commitment by local leaders to move the two-year-old plant is carried out, the scale of the protesters' victory would set a benchmark.
Mr Tombini will remain at the Central Bank, but has clearly been told to take the inflation target of 4.5% seriously; since Ms Rousseff's victory in October, the benchmark interest rate has been raised from 11% to 11.75%.
The victory will be a benchmark moment for the American promise of equality, and the Democrats will add to their partisan quiver a feel-great story that could buoy them in the fall.
