Sentence examples for benchmarks for progress from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, the Iraqi government has failed to enact any of the laws that America considers benchmarks for progress.

To relinquish such leverage before any of the EU's benchmarks for progress have been met would be a damaging mistake.

The federal government provides recommendations for optimal diet quality through the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and sets benchmarks for progress toward these recommendations through the Healthy People objectives.

But Mr. Sestak, a retired Navy vice admiral, said he hoped the leaks would prod the Obama administration to do a better job of explaining its goals in Afghanistan and to establish benchmarks for progress.

Mr. Edwards said he would change the benchmarks for progress in the schools to put greater emphasis on students as they move grade to grade, rather than the current law's snapshot of a class as a whole.

To do so, he said he would increase aid to Pakistan and would, for the first time, set benchmarks for progress in fighting Al Qaeda and the Taliban in both countries.

Under the tentative proposal, students in the fourth and eighth grades would be required to take the current standardized national test every other year to serve as a benchmark for progress.

NAEP results are highly anticipated in the education world and often seen as a benchmark for progress in school systems — even though the results are often misinterpreted (which you can read about here).

The Parliament still has not passed legislation about how the country's oil and gas revenues should be divided — years after the Bush administration set such a law as a benchmark for progress.

"As you can see from our selection, we've made a lot of changes since Beijing where we finished 18th overall and that medal performance has been our benchmark for progress ever since," he said.

It finally sets benchmarks for measuring progress by Kabul and Islamabad.