Sentence examples for benchmarks from inspiring English sources

Charities and the non-government sector welcomed elements of Bishop's proposals, such as the focus on female involvement and performance benchmarks, but raised concern over the need to ensure benefits from "aid for trade" flowed to the people in greatest need and reduced poverty.

Fadlullah Wilmot, head of international programs at Islamic Relief Australia, said he supported benchmarks and hoped the government would ensure the government "achieve the goal of lifting the poorest of the poor out of poverty, especially targeting women the disabled and other vulnerable and marginalised communities".

"They'd have to meet those quality benchmarks and requirements, and that puts added pressure on resources both at a federal level and a state level in terms of funding," Cornish told ABC radio.

Before the era of laser theodolites and mobile computing, he depended on endless manual measurements that started respectively from the door of the Old Kirk at Bo'ness and Blair Castle, Culross – both known Ordinance Survey benchmarks.

For the emerging economies this could mean nationwide energy intensity targets, or perhaps sectoral agreements capping emissions or adopting efficiency benchmarks in key sectors.

This could include benchmarks on the number of entrants from disadvantaged backgrounds as well as applications.

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Fadlullah Wilmot, head of international programs at Islamic Relief Australia, said he supported benchmarks but "the devil is in the detail".

"Remuneration packages should be transparent, and there's some internal benchmarks that we don't know about that determine the level of executive remuneration.

Please keep in mind that these "forecasts" exclude Ron Paul's percentage and are only intended as benchmarks; they have very large margins of error.

The remarkable levels of price stability for crude oil along the world's most important benchmarks, in the face of large disruptions in supply from some of the Middle East's key suppliers, have left many observers somewhat stunned.