Sentence examples for benchmarks for setting from inspiring English sources
Postdoctoral salaries have improved since the mid-1990s as NIH increased its minimum fellowship stipend levels--often used as benchmarks for setting stipends from other sources--to nearly $37,000 for new Ph.D.s compared with just $20,000 in 1997.
Libor is used as a benchmark for setting financial contracts and interest rates around the world.
The yield is a common benchmark for setting interest rates on corporate debt and mortgages.
But this is not a simple task, particularly when it involves assets with risk exposures far into the future and which are traded so rarely that there is no good market benchmark for setting the price.
A foreign diplomat recalls that his unauthorised attempt to inspect one "almost caused a riot", with officials quickly ushering him away.By using the farmers' markets as a benchmark for setting grain prices, the government is heading in the right direction.
The product of the oilfield, Brent Crude, is used as a benchmark for setting oil prices in the North Sea sector.
But the Senate bill alters the definition of "typical" ― or, to put it as the health care experts do, it redefines the benchmark for setting subsidy levels.
The federal funds rate -- the rate at which Federal Reserve banks borrow overnight funds from each other -- is also the rate that most financial institutions use as a benchmark for setting all consumer interest rates, including mortgage rates, auto loan rates, savings account rates and rates for certificates of deposit.
This records Key Performance Indicators which might be used as a benchmark for setting predicted levels of service performance although it is important to note that PROMs are not currently included [ 16].
Some of the outcomes being achieved by FBOs have the potential for setting new benchmarks for their secular counterparts.
Mr. Nelson and Ms. Williams deserve credit for setting a benchmark for improvements, particularly in the long-neglected area of customer service and an informed ridership.
