Sentence examples for low benchmarks from inspiring English sources

A minority may be making money, but several who say the money is OK are using exceptionally low benchmarks.

For simple operations, though, the system runs fine despite its low benchmarks.

Familiar failings undermined a display that was an improvement on recent offerings, a low benchmark admittedly.

That profit has been helped by the current historically low benchmark rates set by central banks.

Setting a low benchmark for new Russian government debt could help commercial borrowers refinance at better rates, as the overall country risk would appear lower.

"That's a pretty low benchmark," his boss replies, insisting he had put on a fresh shirt, tie, suit and pair of socks.

Volatile markets have enabled their managers to make big bets and the lower returns of the broader markets finally offer a low benchmark.

He points to Essex, Cornwall, Hampshire, Leeds and other councils lauded for the improvements they have made to children's social care, often from a low benchmark.

A more limited option would be for the Fed to extend its commitment to a low benchmark interest rate, now near zero, into 2015 from late 2014.

Even if the outlook remains in flux, analysts say there are well-managed companies whose stocks are trading at or slightly above 20 times this year's earnings, a low benchmark in Japan.

But current investment is a low benchmark, the authors argue, and inadequate to close the development gap between rich countries and poor ones, much less contend with climate change as a multiplier.