Sentence examples for benchmarks before from inspiring English sources

"People who weren't willing to discuss benchmarks before, now are willing," he said.

He has said Iran would have to meet certain benchmarks before he would get personally involved.

Mr. Steiner has told Albanian leaders that Kosovo will have to meet a series of internationally determined benchmarks before he will allow a discussion about independence.

"The evidence points to the fact that over time, managers do not provide extra profits," says Espen Sirnes of the University of Tromso.How then did the fund manage to beat its benchmarks before the crisis?

Mr. Romhilt said that their way of selecting active managers increased returns by 3 percentage points over the relevant benchmarks before fees and 1 to 2 percentage points after fees.

That law requires states to identify which schools have met its achievement benchmarks before the opening of fall classes each year, which in Texas last year occurred in mid-August.

He said the costly procurement was a lesson to the Home Office, which should ensure that all of its contracts were properly benchmarked before they were awarded.

That has been in part because the outcome of the runoff had been identified as a vital benchmark before Mr. Obama was to announce his military strategy in Afghanistan.

(For example, you could argue that August, 2008, marked the end of a bubble and that a labor force participation rate of 66.1percentnt wasn't sustainable. If you bring it down a percentage point, say, and use that as your benchmark before adjusting for structural changes, you will end up with a "real" unemployment rate of about nine per cent).

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In order to guarantee a consistent and high material quality, spherical graphite particles have to be carefully benchmarked before use.