Sentence examples for performance aspirations from inspiring English sources

But at nearly 4,300 pounds, the STS-V is a heavy car, too heavy, and the weight detracts from its performance aspirations.

The stock Passat gets an independent torsion beam axle with trailing arms, but to handle the extra weight and higher performance aspirations of the W8, the new car has a double-wishbone rear suspension that provides better high-speed stability and more stable cornering.

Yet although it is persisting with some targets (such as the one to cut waiting times for an operation to three months by 2008) its consultation document makes clear that the new standards designed to develop better performance are "aspirations, not targets".In reality, the government is beating a retreat.

Perhaps you had performance-related aspirations that turned her off, I suggested; perhaps your lovemaking became unaffectionate.

"Having a more balanced teaching workforce can have a positive impact on pupil performance and aspiration among BME students," he adds.

Some indicators of higher academic performance and aspiration are associated with better birth outcomes among adolescents.

This raises the question of a potential relationship between adolescents' academic performance, educational aspiration and birth outcomes.

In a study co-authored by MIT economist Esther Duflo, she saw that an increased presence and visibility of female politicians in local government raises the academic performance and career aspirations of young women in India.

The system model is a mathematical representation of a system and its influence on the variables of interest, for which management aspirations (performance criteria) are set.

It can also have broader effects: a large body of research in psychology documents a positive relationship between academic self-efficacy and students' persistence, performance, and career aspirations (reviewed in Bong and Skaalvik, 2003).

"It's very difficult," Hermanowicz tells Science Careers in an interview, to persuade an ambitious young person "to enter something that demands such high levels of performance with the aspiration at the outset of being an also-ran.