Sentence examples for tough benchmarks from inspiring English sources
Our list of companies (with sales between $5 million and $350 million) starts out with a few tough benchmarks.
Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. 5.
"That is a tough benchmark," James P. Holden, the president of DaimlerChrysler's Chrysler unit, said in a statement.
There are tougher benchmarks for recordkeeping and more detailed reporting, along with requirements to check customers against the Treasury Department's so-called specially designated persons list.
It's an ongoing battle trying to put a dollar value on one's time (although you can try), so any new lead "return" on these free platforms is tough to benchmark vis-à-vis an investment.
And aren't dispassion and nonjudgmentalism, as in Tough Love, unassailable benchmarks of artistic integrity and quality?
BRUSSELS — The European Union's top financial regulator proposed tougher rules for market benchmarks, new oversight that comes after a wave of interest rate-rigging scandals at big banks.
"The site identified the biggest problem facing that industry, which was the way manufacturers confused customers by defining their tools using different benchmarks, making it tough to compare items across vendors," says Jones. "TestMart solved the problem by normalizing the output levels used by all the manufacturers to create apples-to-apples comparisons".
"The FSA must take action but as the UK gas is the benchmark for gas traded at EU level I will be asking European commissioners [Joaquín] Almunia and [Michel] Barnier to take urgent action on cartels and price-fixing and introduce tough rules on the setting of benchmarks and indices in the commodities markets".
In Britain, where results showed students falling behind peers in Estonia and Slovenia, Education Minister Michael Gove promised to overhaul the examination system to make it tougher, using tests from China and South Korea as benchmarks.
