Sentence examples for setting the benchmark from inspiring English sources

That year, the Seals went 132-80 under manager Daniel Long, setting the benchmark for future generations.

An impressive roster of singers work through his solo vocal output, with baritone Christian Gerhaher's evening concert setting the benchmark.

Apart from changes to the banks involved, the process for setting the benchmark closely resembles the way it was set up 95 years ago.

Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey had its world premiere in Washington, D.C.; it became a classic, setting the benchmark for sci-fi films.

Where once Test cricket was viewed as the pinnacle of ambition for the prestige it brought, now T20 is the path to wealth, with Chris Gayle, a former captain, setting the benchmark as a peripatetic purveyor of expensive sixes.

The civil case is the first of its kind to result in a high court trial and is seen as setting the benchmark for assessing other claims against Trinity Mirror's newspaper subsidiary Mirror Group Newspapers.

The episode between us set the benchmark.

Singapore Airlines has long set the benchmark for marketing such attentiveness.

The deal set the benchmark for regional newspaper prices.

Real productivity growth sets the benchmark for real wage growth.

"The Golf sets the benchmark in its segment.