Sentences with phrase «seen as the benchmarks»

My focus will be on developing recognition of the CIOB in each country so that membership is seen as the benchmark qualification for construction professionals accepted at all levels of government.

So those kids were significantly above what could traditionally be seen as the benchmarks for those kids.

The ratio of 5:1 positive to negative feedback is seen as a benchmark for building high performing teams.

Since it's launch back in 1994, many rivals had seen it as a benchmark for performance, but few have been able to best it.

«Because ebooks have no physical manifestation it is harder for consumers to perceive the production cost that have gone into them — 20p could eventually be seen as the benchmark price».

Although ranked No. 3 in our comparison, the E-Class is by far the sales leader in this group — and typically seen as the benchmark luxury sedan by many.

The ratio of 5:1 positive to negative feedback is seen as a benchmark for building high performing teams.

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While cities shouldn't change based solely on Amazon's wishes, many saw the experience as a way to benchmark themselves against other similar - sized cities around the country and see where they might be falling short.

So says Bill Gurley, partner at VC firm Benchmark of Menlo Park, California, who on Thursday posted a lengthy blog post on the new world of venture capital investing for startups as he sees it.

Mortgage planner and rate comparison website founder Robert McLister says the increase is «unusual» as the benchmark rate hasn't seen a jump of 45 basis points or more since March 2010.

Willy Schlacks told me that he sees an even bigger opportunity in more advanced analytics, such as using predictive analysis to lower maintenance costs, using drones to monitor entire construction sites and aggregating data so that contractors can measure their performance against industry benchmarks.

Fellow business owners may serve as a great benchmark, but it's easy to get frustrated when you see others moving forward at a different pace than you are.

Meanwhile, benchmark 10 - year note yields have broken above a long - term downtrend in effect since the 1980s, which some technical strategists see as a bearish indicator going forward.

The first thing we wanted to do was to see if the participants in our study lined up reasonably well with Mamoon's benchmark of 4 as a goal for promising SaaS companies.

U.S. Equity Funds enjoyed a record - breaking surge of fresh money during the second week of March, as investors shrugged off an impending U.S. rate hike and the internal struggles of Trump's administration and chased a rally that saw the benchmark Dow Jones Industrial Average Index climb more than 400 points in a day.

Can you help us understand how long you think that seasoning will go on so that we can have a sense and benchmark this to see how things are going as well?

In the last year, the spread between what a barrel of oil is worth in the Midwest (called WTI — which is usually the oil price you see on the nightly news) and what it's worth either on the Gulf Coast (LLS) or when shipped to Europe (called Brent — which is generally used as a benchmark for world prices) has widened to historic levels.

As you can see in Figure 1.1, the Family Office Benchmark Survey responses varied more than the California family office segment in the size of these investments but the majority was in line with the California group.

The South Korean stock market saw the steepest fall, as the benchmark KOSPI plunged 1.13 percent to 2343.60 before midday.

(Treasuries are the benchmark since they are seen as being completely free of default risk).

While the official goal of the new futures contract is to establish a regional benchmark for more useful pricing of the crude grades prevalent on the Chinese market, analysts see the yuan oil futures as a step toward China seeking wider acceptance of its currency in global trade, including the oil trade, and establishing a petro - yuan that could challenge, in the future, the dominance of the petrodollar.

Since then the median name in the index was up 21 %, the average of the index members» performances was 29 %, while the index progressed by 39.5 % given the large concentration of the tail of performance in the benchmark within the index mega-cap heavyweights, as can be seen below.

Using duration of the tightening cycle or «time» as the benchmark (i.e. splitting up the various phases by 25 % increments), the S&P 500 was up an average 3.6 % (median +2.4 %); using «duration» or basis - point change as the benchmark, the first 25 % of the cycle sees an average gain of 7.2 % (median of +5.6 %).

Xiaomi's listing plans come as the company and its investors look to capitalize on a bull run for the Hong Kong market, which has seen the benchmark Hang Seng Index rise about 27 percent over the past year.

The much better than expected ADP employment report gave a boost to the market, especially the Nasdaq, but the rally looks increasingly «thin», as only a few huge names carrying the major benchmarks to new highs, with giants like Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Tesla have been seeing great inflows in the past week.

As you can see in the table above, which looks at the price differential between the Brent global benchmark price and the West Texas Intermediate price (the amount by which North American oil prices differ from average international prices each year), the problem is that the price differential between 2011 and 2013 was exceptional.

But what could now hurt Benchmark's business is a new fear factor that has gripped a young class of entrepreneurs, who perhaps see Kalanick's ouster as a cautionary tale for their own companies down the road.

The actual carbon pricing for all this is the same as the carbon levy benchmark, i.e. $ 10 / tonne in 2018, rising to $ 50 / tonne in 2022 (see Schedule 4 of the legislative proposal).

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The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in religious conservatism and conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist» values and against those who hold such values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.

«French wine is one of the most sought after country - of - origin wines across North Asia, as consumers see this category as a benchmark for quality.

If low requirements for shade production become mainstreamed and legitimized, and are seen as the true benchmarks for eco-friendly coffee production, habitat quality and biodiversity will suffer.

Represented as a percentage, the OEE number allows you to benchmark your operations against the industry standard, and see where and how to make improvements.

I see this season as his first real benchmark.

Depending on your church baby dedication is also sometimes viewed as an opportunity for the baby to be recognized by the church acting as a benchmark to ensure that the church follow up to see that your child is doing well and will grow according to the Christian values.

A review of Platt price, an industry trading benchmark as of today also indicates a drop in Petrol price by 1.8 % with an accumulated price of 2.6 % decrease within this window, whilst the Ghanaian Cedi has seen stability at the Forex market over the pricing window.

Rivers are not expected to peak until Tuesday and the waters are now expected to exceed the 1947 floods, previously seen as the «benchmark» for flood disasters.

Do you have any general benchmarks for me insofar as a timeline in which I should see results?

However, at the top of the chart (see the zoomed in segment below), we see that Dr Baker's diet is lacking in vitamin C, manganese, vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin K1, folate, calcium, omega 3, and pantothenic acid (at least when you use the RDI as your benchmark).

The scores are frequently seen as a useful benchmark for a movie's future success, as well as a reflection on the way it was marketed, with the company's founder, Ed Mintz, breaking down the reactions thusly: «A's generally are good, B's generally are shaky, and C's are terrible.

Seen by many as an allegory for WWII — with the demonic overlord as Hitler — and interpreted by others, with its «slant - eyed» and yellow - skinned Orcs, as a virulently racist tract, The Lord of the Rings is indisputably a benchmark in modern fiction, gaining its popularity from the paperback release in the 1960s.

If the finished film turns out to be as good as the original, I will be a happy man, but it's impossible to pretend like there's no benchmark when I have seen the original.

We don't see it as a cookie - cutter thing, but we do have common benchmarks, a common scope, and an emerging set of best practices.

, would roll back federally mandated sanctions for not meeting performance benchmarks that states and school administrators see as cumbersome.

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Several prototypes were tested that year, but the launch of the Nissan Primera in 1990 prompted Ford to made a number of major alterations to the final product, as it saw the new competitor from Nissan to be the benchmark car in this sector, having previously identified the Honda Accord as the class leader.

We headed out to Monterey, California to put the all - new iteration of Honda's crossover through its paces to see if all the revision would help the CR - V retain its title as the benchmark for the segment.

The market is increasingly seen as a 3D - fluid «existence» that changes constantly that can skew significantly when a benchmark product is launched.

In the benchmark tests we ran at launch, the iPad excelled at some metrics, as you can see in the GLBenchmark 2.1.2 charts below.

After two 3D graphics performance benchmark tests on May 17 for the coming new 10.5 - inch Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 which are now viewable, we once again see that Samsung is testing the new tablet with Android 8.1 as well as Android 8.0, which increases the possibility that Samsung will launch the Samsung Tab S4 with Android 8.1 without the need to wait for an update.