In contrast, Thailand's benchmark SET Index is trading at 17.6 times earnings.
All this means that America can sensibly aim for a balance between spending cuts and higher taxes similar to the benchmark set by Britain's coalition government.
Recently, for a consulting client, I did a rough comparison between their customer base (which tended to be young, information-intensive companies) and a benchmark comparison set from the mainstream economy.
It should set benchmark standards, not lower its expectations to conform to low standards world-wide. (Some other countries permit passengers to board carrying the sort of potential weapons the TSA plans to allow.) Mr. Pistole is concerned about the amount of time spent searching for small knives when personnel would do better to focus on looking for explosives.
How much you pay depends on your tax bracket and where lawmakers set the benchmark.
They've earned that right over the years and set the benchmark for the rest of us.
When OMGPOP burst into the casual gaming space, they set a benchmark for how online game portals should work.
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Those sales will be the next to set a benchmark for the kinds of discounts buyers can expect, analysts say.
But "DoubleClick has set a benchmark, " says Gurbaksh Chahal, co-founder and CEO of the privately-owned Blue Lithium, which helps advertisers manage their online campaigns.
But "DoubleClick has set a benchmark, " says Gurbaksh Chahal, co-founder and CEO of the privately owned Blue Lithium, which helps advertisers manage their online campaigns.
However this is a market where Apple has set the benchmark.
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Tina Donnelly, director of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in Wales, said the report set a benchmark for future reports and called for year-on-year improvement.
But it was Massa who twice set the benchmark in the final qualifying session and Hamilton could not eke out enough pace to eclipse the Brazilian.
The Ferrari driver set a benchmark of one minute 12.368 seconds but Hamilton could not match it and finished almost half a second behind in fourth.
Bill and Maya have set a good benchmark against which we can judge those plans to come.
Its sites are rich, well researched and localized and are still the benchmark by which portals are set.
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We took Mr. Big's advice and set out to benchmark against the best.
Smith allowed De Villers to set the new benchmark before declaring on 584-9.
Bakken crude even trades at a discount to West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the benchmark oil for the US set by prices in Cushing, Oklahoma.
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Heller has set a new benchmark for Rand scholars, but those looking for a quick read about someone who penned college-course required reading should look elsewhere.
Razer, the world leader in high-performance gaming hardware, set a technological benchmark today with the release of its new Razer DeathStalker Ultimate gaming keyboard, featuring Razer's award-winning Switchblade User Interface (UI).
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LinkedIn will be the first social networking company to go public except for China-based Renren, which went out earlier this month, so it will set a public benchmark for the entire category.
But Bankia's assumptions on the rate of non-performing loans in areas such as residential mortgages and corporate loans set a disturbing new benchmark for other lenders.
The EU was also thought to favour benchmark pricing as the fairest way to set iron-ore prices for steelmakers.
All eyes were on former Ferrari star Schumacher, who qualified in seventh place, but it was the 41-year-old German's younger compatriot Vettel who seemed set to place an early benchmark for 2010.
With economies facing a deep recession, inflation is set to drop sharply (though the benchmark for the test is falling too).
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Ideally each jurisdiction will incorporate a set of broad global principles, which establish a benchmark of prudent finance.
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The European Central Bank (ECB) has set a 2% inflation comfort zone and raised benchmark interest rates to 3.25% this month to tackle rising consumer prices.
Hence, Benchmark, a new index and ETF investment company that was set up in India by some former employees of Merrill Lynch, is excited about selling India's first ETF through the stock exchange.
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In 2010 the big miners abandoned the benchmark and began to sell their ore on short-term contracts, at prices set on a nascent spot market.
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