Sentence examples for sabotage performance from inspiring English sources

Why does the brain sabotage performance just when it matters most?

One suggested that musicians sabotage performances.

If a ballerina did a fouetté, for example, they would clap and shout "Bravo!" But claques could also be deployed to sabotage performances.

He sabotaged performance by spending absurd amounts of money on assets of dubious value: three billion dollars for TV Guide and a couple of other titles, six billion for a stake in Gemstar (which he ended up selling for less than a billion), more than a billion dollars for MySpace and IGN.

Frusciante often argued with his bandmates, and sabotaged performances.

Trump also suggested that the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates deliberately gave him a defective microphone in an attempt to sabotage his performance.

Trump insisted he won the debate but also suggested that the non-partisan Commission on Presidential Debates deliberately gave him a defective microphone on purpose in an attempt to sabotage his performance.

Dunne, in short, has an attitude problem that has sabotaged his performance and earned him a bad reputation.

Some research similarly suggests that failure can impede concentration, thereby sabotaging future performance.

In this study we show theoretically that participants may also increase their destructive effort, and sabotage their rivals' performance, when handicapping is employed.

Salin (2003a) argues that such perpetrators are motivated to sabotage the job performance of co-workers in order to expel those who might get in the way of their own advancement.