Sentence examples for meeting benchmarks from inspiring English sources

A parade of Washington officials, most recently Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, have traveled to Kabul to warn that continuing American help is dependent on the Afghan government's meeting benchmarks in tackling corruption and building up credible security forces.

Over the past four years, 380 junior mining companies have gone public in Australia and the crunch means few will ever produce anything, says Mr Caiani.One of the greatest difficulties faced by a start-up is that financing is often done in stages, subject to meeting benchmarks.

Findings also revealed that twice as many Pre-K attendees were reading above expected first grade literacy benchmarks compared to the no-preschool group which is important because it implies that meeting benchmarks is not the only indicator of success.

It will make future NIHR funding to providers of services to the National Health Service conditional on meeting benchmarks, including a 70-day deadline to recruit first patients for trials.

Each year, the WEF, best known for its annual Davos economic meeting, benchmarks countries against 12 factors, including infrastructure, education and training, labour market efficiency, technological readiness and innovation.

Physicians were plotted on frequency distribution graphs and benchmarks were drawn to gain an understanding of where physicians lay in terms of meeting benchmarks.

But success in meeting recruiting benchmarks in the last year has led to optimism among NATO officials that the ambitious goal can be met.

Each grade reflects whether a state or the country is on track to meeting 11 benchmarks for reducing smoking-related diseases by 2010.

And if the mission of these "new" guarantors includes affordable-housing goals, you can be sure that regulators will again be persuaded to let them take more risks in the name of meeting homeownership benchmarks.

Only their remedies differ: General McChrystal recommended a hefty infusion of soldiers, while Ambassador Eikenberry worried that such an infusion would increase the dependency of the Afghan government, and should be conditioned on the government's meeting certain benchmarks.

Unsurprisingly, the researchers found that success seems to beget success — meeting each benchmark makes one more likely to meet the next.