Sentence examples for sought to benchmark from inspiring English sources

This concern arose most strongly in relation to external quality measures against which the health services sought to benchmark performance.

Other businesses will now be seeking to benchmark themselves against this plan".

"There are many nations that seek to benchmark us and our systems, particularly because my country is squaring off with North Korea," said Choi Yang-hee, South Korea's technology minister.

This paper seeks to benchmark the competitiveness of European cities as locations for businesses and in terms of their ability to attract investment.

In Europe, financial regulators are focusing on a ring of traders from several European banks who allegedly sought to rig benchmark interest rates such as Libor, said the European source familiar with the investigation in Europe.

And last month Barclays was fined £290 million after admitting it sought to manipulate the benchmark Libor interest rate used in the financial markets.

We sought to provide a benchmark of the relationship of time from symptom onset to surgical treatment on the need for resection in patients with complete small bowel obstruction.

Among other methods borrowed from computer science, the common sense reasoning community has sought to develop suites of "benchmark problems".

Chad Colby, a spokesman for the federal Department of Education, said the department neither endorsed nor criticized schools that concentrated instructional time on math and reading as they sought to meet the test benchmarks laid out in the federal law's accountability system, known as adequate yearly progress.

As an initial benchmark, we sought to achieve a comparable level of prodrug-mediated cell killing with a protein targeting strategy (IDEPT), to that achieved with cells stably transfected with yCDtriple.

Iraq today is replete with American-ordered deadlines, timetables and benchmarks that sought to create realities where realities never existed.