Sentence examples for authority of performance from inspiring English sources

This is a moment of the ascendance of acteurism in lieu of auteurism, of critical efforts to read movies in terms of the authority of performance rather than to see performance as an effect of direction.

The continuing increase in target-setting and the introduction by police authorities of performance bonuses and annual appraisals of chief officers have reduced the level of independence once enjoyed by earlier generations of chief constables and commissioners.

All the same, Alner confessed himself "amazed" by the authority of this performance.

In 1997, the borough came last out of 149 English education authorities in terms of performance.

That Lazarev doesn't share the fashionable belief that Shostakovich was more secret dissident than state lackey does little to diminish the power and authority of this exemplary performance of a towering work.

Legitimate authority satisfies what Raz calls the pre-emption thesis: "The fact that an authority requires performance of an action is a reason for its performance which is not to be added to all other relevant reasons when assessing what to do, but should exclude and take the place of some of them" (Raz 1988: 46).

Although the pharaoh delegated his authority, the performance of temple rituals was still an official duty, restricted to high-ranking priests.

The public health authority does not monitor scheme in terms of performance or patient follow up in both schemes.

Writ, in common law, order issued by a court in the name of a sovereign authority requiring the performance of a specific act.

In Canada the assessment of performance by medical regulatory authorities has mostly focused on physicians considered to be at risk for performance difficulties or for whom there has been evidence of poor performance requiring competence remediation [ 20- 22].

This is meant to be a publicly available web-based source of information about local authority service performance, something that would allow comparisons to be made fairly, between genuinely comparable areas.