Sentence examples for lower targets from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Alm's lower targets for the United States perplexed Wall Street analysts the most.

The new relief measure eases that requirement, giving companies that have big investment losses lower targets to shoot for over the seven-year time frame.

He argues that setting lower targets for some students, for example because they are low ability when they join, "institutionalises those slow levels of progress" and suggests that those students "cannot catch up with their peers".

Pirc, the independent advisers on corporate governance, warned shareholders to vote down the board's impudent pay package: the option to take a bonus of up to 400% with lower targets, because the old ones had become unattainable.

John Fitzpatrick, the chief financial officer, said Swiss Re would put lower targets on investment returns when the results were announced at the end of March, but he said that during unstable times in the stock market, targets were almost meaningless.

Of course, managers know that salespeople want lower targets, so they often arbitrarily put them up: 'To make the budget numbers, you must sell X million this month.' That gives people incentives to sell at all costs - the wrong product to the wrong people (as in financial services), unnecessary extra features, to bring forward sales from the next period, or, in the worst cases, to invent them.

Now there are doubts China can hit this year's lower target of around 7%.

We keep the faith and retain the buy recommendation, albeit on a lower target price of 155p from 205p.

Vince Cable, Lib Dem business secretary, has taken the unusual step of writing to Nick Clegg to call for a lower target.

Leading analysts have questioned whether the government can meet even the lower target using its Direct Action policy.

Catcher Bob Swift, already on his knees, nearly lay on the ground to give the left-handed Cain a lower target.