Sentence examples for a standard of performance from inspiring English sources

It is used as a standard of performance of all heat engines operating between a high and a low temperature.

The town has no plans to require existing homes to retrofit to make them more energy efficient, Ms. Coddington said, "because it's very difficult to mandate a standard of performance in existing homes".

They were the Olympics which hour by hour, day by day, set a standard of performance that was maybe most perfectly achieved by the Masai tribesman David Rushida who broke the 800 metres world record so beautifully.

He emphasizes that even before Truxtun provided a standard of performance to officers and crews, the ships of the Continental Navy, notably the 32-gun frigates Randolph and Hancock, were built to excel British ships of equal rating in numbers of guns by surpassing them in features such as size of frames, height of masts and height of main battery guns above the water.

They were the Olympics which, hour by hour, day by day, set a standard of performance that was maybe most perfectly achieved by the Masai tribesman David Rudisha who broke the 800m world record so beautifully, so inevitably, his stride has to be stored away in the memory of anyone who saw it.

It's a young squad and although the results haven't always come the lads have set a standard of performance - getting the win against Russia and going very close to a result against Portugal at home.

In the West we train until a "learner" reaches a certain standard of performance.

The primary goal is creating an organisation with such a high standard of performance that these playing successes we're talking about are a by-product of that".

However, the Secretary may prescribe, for a motor vehicle operated by a carrier subject to subchapter I of chapter 135, a safety regulation that imposes a higher standard of performance after manufacture than that required by an applicable standard in effect at the time of manufacture.

Usually, this involves the singers trying to honk each other off the stage like angry geese, but this year has seen a higher standard of performance and a more subtle showcasing of talents.

Eager to avoid political challenges from feudal vassals, the Han emperors established a bureaucratic system based upon a meritocratic standard of performance.