Sentence examples for the wrong benchmarks from inspiring English sources

It might simply mean that the EU had set the wrong benchmarks.It is also true that foreigner-bashing populists have done well at recent elections across old Europe: just look at voting patterns in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark and Austria.

"If there's a lot of volatility to your performance, overall and above or below the benchmark for each investment, then either you are looking at the wrong benchmarks or you are taking more risk than you expected," said Kinniry.

But this is the wrong benchmark to use.

"What's behind us faces west Germany now," says Wolfen's mayor, Mrs Wust.Parity with western Germany is the wrong benchmark, argues Mr Blum.

Fund managers often confuse investors by using the wrong benchmark as a basis of comparison for fund performance.

Right idea but wrong benchmark.

Not that it's the only company doing this; Anandtech, a site where you could get the (wrong) impression that benchmarks are the only reason to own a gadget, showed that lots of Android companies do this; Samsung just happens to have a bigger list of benchmarks for which it ramps up the GPU or central processor to give a "better" result.

Problem is, it benchmarked the wrong Porsche... ........ So, that question again.

The administration's critics in Congress have cited the lack of progress toward those benchmarks as evidence that the White House is on the wrong track and ought to begin a rapid pullout of combat forces.

But the unemployment rate is headed in the wrong direction, an argument that Republicans hope will provide an easy benchmark against which voters can judge the president.

Index mutual funds and exchange-traded funds try to match the returns of benchmark indexes, while actively managed funds try to beat them, risking substantial underperformance if their managers pick the wrong stocks.