Sentence examples for constitute a performance from inspiring English sources

And the things required by the decrees to be done and performed by them are the very things which, when done and performed, constitute a performance of the alleged contract by the state.

Thus, Maxwell's activities constitute a performance under section 101.

The things required to be done by the actual defendants were the very things which, when done, would constitute a performance of the alleged contract by the state.

"Aereo uses its own equipment, housed in a centralized warehouse, outside of its users' homes," Justice Stephen Breyer wrote in the majority opinion; using this equipment to provide its service is enough to constitute a performance.

Accordingly, it is equally well settled that a suit against the officers of a state, to compel them to do the acts which constitute a performance by it of its contracts, is, in effect, a suit against the state itself.

The Supreme Court held that irrespective of the distance from the broadcasting station, the reception and retransmission of its signal by a CATV system does not constitute a "performance" of a copyrighted work.

When you see them play you are not having your expectations of what constitutes a performance challenged.

However, Serkis might well be luckier next time, as Academy voters and punters alike become more open-minded about what constitutes a "performance".

Justice Stephen Breyer invoked the image of phonographs sent through the mail to try to draw out questions of what constitutes a performance, the distribution of recordings, or the actual act of pressing play.

Twentieth-century critics of musical scanners pointed out that musical scansion constitutes a performance, not an analysis of the metre, that it allows arbitrary readings, and that it levels out distinctions between poets and schools of poetry.

Hence, tracking depends on signal acquisition, which constitutes a performance bottleneck in the presence of RFI.