Sentence examples for against the performance from inspiring English sources

Comparing performance of the biomarker against the performance distribution of the random gene sets will immediately show whether these perform better than random and are worthwhile proceeding with [ 3, 4].

He also wants chief executive pay to be benchmarked against the performance of rival firms.

The audience is pressed up against the performance, with the two dancers entering the first row for costume changes.

But if the American economy were to be graded on a curve — measured against the performance of other countries — that performance might seem very impressive.

Since 2009, the exams regulator Ofqual has adopted a new approach intended to contain grade inflation by comparing examiners' marking of candidates against the performance of that year-group at GCSE, as well as previous years' A-level results.

The deadline for Varnish's appeal was extended several times to enable her to prepare her case against the performance issues that were cited as the reason for her contract not being renewed.

He prefers the sort of scheme adopted by Cadbury Schweppes, a British food company which benchmarks its share scheme for directors against the performance of 30 consumer-goods firms, including Unilever and Coca-Cola.

The exchange would also require any studio that uses the contracts as a hedge against the performance of its own films to set up a firewall between employees who do the trading and those who work on a film.

From his position as editor of the literary periodical El pensador, he issued constant attacks against the performance of these plays, which had become little more than vulgar public spectacles.

He does see some unspecified hope in "a gradually expanding discussion that begins in scholarly circles, moves outward to the media and intellectuals more generally, and after some years begins to engage a wider public" — specifically, a discussion of how our system stacks up against the performance of constitutional systems in other advanced democracies and against democratic principles.

Crucially, according to the PCS, one of the largest civil service unions, the principles do not require departments to operate quotas and relative assessment, where staff are judged against the performance of others and placed in categories, including "must improve", which ultimately puts them at risk of losing their jobs.