Sentence examples for performance dampened from inspiring English sources
In November, the investor group cut its bid for Burger King to $1.5 billion as the hamburger chain's poor trading performance dampened financing prospects.
Despite Cook's questionable claims of a preemptive explanation, Apple has not been openly telling users since the release of iOS 10.2.1 that poor iPhone performance, dampened speakers and even a broken camera flash might be by design and a $79 battery should fix it.
His committee once solemnly declared that Shirley Temple, then a recent alumna of a Hollywood kindergarten and a child actress whose performances dampened handkerchiefs all around the world, was a stooge of the Stalinists.
Yet neither the high cost nor the poor performance has dampened enthusiasm in Congress or at the Pentagon — or among military contractors — for deploying missile defenses.
The only regions that did not join in the boom last year were Africa, where commodity prices have been depressed, and Asia, where performance was dampened by weak economic growth in Japan.
And while Ms. Davis sings with a dark, soulful intensity in a steel-edged voice that feels right both for Brecht and the moody rock music of Mr. Sheik, there's sometimes an opaque, remote quality to her performance that dampens the force of Grusha's natural innocence.
Research shows that such setups may dampen performance at the high end: Managers tend not to exceed their targets by any significant amount.
He added, "In particular, we think a credit rating agency downgrade of Washington Mutual's debt to junk levels, as threatened by Moody's, would likely raise the cost of doing business and further dampen performance during the currently challenging environment".
That not only could depress the highfliers, but it could dampen the performance of the Nasdaq over all.
If the increasing emphasis on authentic early-music performance practice seemed to dampen the group's critical reception in later years, it hardly mattered.
Brightness normalization enhanced the performance of PLSR by dampening the effects of canopy shade, thus providing a significant improvement in predictions of leaf chemistry (up to 3.6% additional explained variance in validation) compared to conventional PLSR.
