Sentence examples for a performance above from inspiring English sources

If contemporary crime fiction by such masters of the genre as Michael Connelly, Ed McBain, P. D. James, Ian Rankin, and Richard Price is imagined as a kind of Olympic event, the interrogation is the routine designed to lift a performance above the competition.

According to a study of Brito (1987), the cutoff point suggested for the Brazilian population is a performance above the 90th percentile.

Interestingly, using the text format features, even though the texts under scrutiny were heavily contaminated by new line characters, we obtained a performance above the baseline for the first time.

During an after-midnight hip-hop performance, above, at the nightclub LIV in Miami Beach, Fla., the actor (or former actor?) Joaquin Phoenix jumped from the stage and faced off with an audience member who was apparently heckling him on Thursday, according to The Associated Press.

Performance above chance implied the presence of discriminative information within this local voxel-pattern.

"We are doing a performance," declared Adele (above left), her turnout apparently having set the tone for visitors whose strident ensembles as often as not outshone the art on view.

Telephone and cable-television giant AT&T gave Chairman C. Michael Armstrong a 5.9% salary increase, but gave him only 82% of his potential bonus for a performance that was "above threshold but below target".

In a subsequent test the ponies successfully transferred the learned task to completely new stimuli within 2 8 sessions with a performance level above 80%.

Indeed, SNAP2noali, the version of our method that does not use alignments, predicted 75% of these effect variants at over 90% accuracy, i.e. reached a performance substantially above its average for these cases.

Of these, 684 had a performance status above the level or were not eligible for other reasons, i.e. being terminally ill, receiving occupational therapy in the occupational therapy department at time of inclusion, being unable to participate due to cognitive problems or poor language skills, or based on nurses' opinion too ill.

If all the other performances above have an element of camp, none can match the master.