Sentence examples for punishing performance from inspiring English sources

High demand and punishing performance targets mean that the modern GP spends fewer than 12 minutes with a patient.

He was among the first writers to speak to the protesting crowds in Tahrir Square in January, and in March, he delivered a punishing performance during a televised debate with Ahmed Shafiq, the prime minister appointed by Mr. Mubarak.

Watson's onslaught enabled the declaration to come earlier than planned – by as much as an hour perhaps – while his punishing performance drained even more resolve and focus from the England players.

Gordon Strachan's anxieties over his team's scoring rate - lingering since last season - must have evaporated with this punishing performance, which brought their total to 12 in their past three league outings.

From its outset, it underpinned its punishing performance demands with almost-certain death should your character, Faith, mistime a jump between rooftops.

In both cases, punishing performance of the alternative function had little effect on the evolution of the rewarded function; thus, the performance of OR did not differ appreciably between the +OR and +OR/-EQU treatments (upper left), and the performance of EQU was indistinguishable in the +EQU/-OR and +EQU treatments (upper right).

That danger was on view on the sixth floor of MOMA, the other part of the exhibit, in archival videos, photographs, and texts as well as in recreations, by other performers, of some of Abramović's demanding, self-revealing, and self-punishing performance pieces.

The functions that showed correlated increases in response to selection for performing EQU were usually lost when they were selected against by punishing their performance.

Although punishing the performance of AND caused its loss far more often than when it was not punished (Table  3), the mutations necessary to produce this loss while also retaining other critical functions were evidently so infrequent that many populations failed to lose it.

The governor wants to establish accountability; to measure, reward or punish the performance of students, teachers and schools; to make schools safe; and to get a better balance of spending between rich and poor school districts.

After a long season that recently culminated in punishing marathon performances of Wagner's "Ring" cycle, the brass players of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra could have been forgiven for taking a breather.