Sentences with phrase «useful benchmark»

I plan on checking in regularly to your site for updates as it seems like a really useful benchmark.

Nonetheless, Peter Syverson, vice president for research and information services at the Council of Graduate Schools, says the survey is «as good as we've got» and that it provides useful benchmarks.

Indexes and averages serve as useful benchmarks against which investors can measure the performance of their own portfolios.

Human rights represent essential conditions for sustainable prosperity in China, providing standards for official conduct and offering useful benchmarks for development.

Stock market indexes can be useful benchmarks for gauging the performance of an investment portfolio over time.

Measuring your body fat and maximum lifting strengths before starting can be a useful benchmark to check for success against.

A useful benchmark is the remarkable ecumenical venture by the Roman Catholic agency, Aid to the Church in Need.

Shutting down transgene expression by Doxy is a useful benchmarking for preclinical treatment trials for drugs addressing tau pathology.

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.

While many people now have access to internet at a much higher speed than this, it can act as a useful benchmark and conservative target for calculating the capacity of a school connection.

The same survey (questions) were answered by schools in February 2015 with similar response levels; offering a useful benchmark, helping to track the progress of the number of schools who are going cashless on an annual basis.

The NPS is a useful benchmark for measuring customer satisfaction.

Otherwise, the interior is standard A3, which means it's good looking, beautifully built and a useful benchmark for quality for cars several classes up.

also provide a yield table for AAA - rated insured revenue bonds, a useful benchmark for prices of other municipal issues.

It also assumes you're at least 60 - years - old, although it will be a useful benchmark even for those younger than 60 and who aspire to an early retirement.

Nevertheless, it provides a useful benchmark — a model that, by definition, has perfect fit to the data — against which we can compare our other models.

Because of how popular 5/1 ARM mortgages are among homeowners who plan on selling rather than paying off their full mortgage, we set five years as a useful benchmark to gauge the value of refinancing.

That is a useful benchmark, but it is very important to keep in mind that munis are not risk - free.

Doubling CO2 provides a useful benchmark, but it does not represent the full extent of the climate change problem.

The correlation between the rainfall threshold and increased fire activity was evident across all satellite data used in the study, which makes the threshold a useful benchmark for predicting and preparing for potential fire episodes.

This guideline does not mean that climate change is harmless below 2 C, or that it suddenly becomes so catastrophic above 2 C that further efforts at limiting warming are pointless, but like a highway speed limit, it serves as a useful benchmark for where you start to worry about things being really bad.

But as the full site is developed into the UK's first earth science park that will use renewable energy from solar, wind, hydro, shallow and deep geothermal sources, it should provide a useful benchmark for understanding how solar can fit in with other technologies for an integrated approach to clean energy.

Accordingly, the general guidelines provide a useful benchmark against which all legal representatives in LCIA arbitrations will be judged and the obligation on the parties to obtain their lawyers» agreement to comply should ensure that these core values are respected.

As an example, taking into account the impact of judges» previous decisions in related cases can provide a useful benchmark, which in turn adds to the information being considered in terms of risk and cost.

CCBJ: The LexisNexis annual CounselLink report has become a useful benchmarking tool for legal departments.

The new 2014 ILTA / InsideLegal Technology Purchasing Survey provides a useful benchmark.

The company's credit rating is a useful benchmark for judging the value and reliability of its dividends.

Pie charts like this can be a useful benchmark, especially for people who have never made a budget before, said Todd Curtis, chief customer officer for You Need a Budget, a budgeting software company.

Bill, these rules are useful benchmarks to help evaluate a deal.