Sentence examples for performances to pay from inspiring English sources

The problem may have been that Mr. Decker was asking for the operatic equivalent of Method acting from his cast, and that the singers were too absorbed in their performances to pay close attention to the conductor.

I lived in Greensboro, N.C. and struggling punker bands traveling from Atlanta to D.C. for weekend gigs would unload their equipment-filled vans into tiny bars for mid-week performances to pay for gas money for the trip.

The Oscar-winner wants his performance to pay tribute to the work of Detective Glenn Flothe, on whom Cage based his character Jack Halcombe.

Photograph: Charles Dharapak/AP 4.26pm BST Spanish artist Omar Jerez puts on a performance to pay tribute to the victims of the attacks by the Basque separatist group, ETA, in San Sebastian.

But at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night, at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, he was given the show's closing performance to pay his respects, or not.

This was the third time this year he has used live performance to pay tribute to a musician who has died, following his versions of Glenn Frey's Take It Easy and David Bowie's Rebel Rebel.

You can't compare performance to pay for a single year: Both numbers are far too volatile to yield a meaningful ratio.

But comparing performance to pay over the short term is as unfair as predicting the winner of the World Series based on the first week of the season.

Interpublic responded that "over 80% of the compensation that Glass Lewis attributes to [CEO Michael] Roth is in equity grants that require performance to pay out and will either not vest or currently have no value.

Because he's no longer chief exec, he's not on this year's performance-to-pay ranking; last year he was ninth from the bottom on a list of 189.

The next step is to start evaluating each teacher's performance, and to pay and promote her accordingly.