Sentence examples for stretching performance from inspiring English sources

The silver film on the 50%% pre-stretched PDMS substrate showed much better stretching performance than that on the non-stretched PDMS surface (silver on reference PDMS).

The company "partly met the stretching performance targets" set out in 2013, she said.

Lloyds said it felt its current boardroom procedures were "thorough and appropriate" and that its pay plans had "stretching performance targets".

Lloyds said the deal was "the maximum package that could potentially pay out over the next three to four years – and, importantly, will be subject to stretching performance targets which, if met, will deliver very significant benefits to the UK economy and ultimately all taxpayers".

Amyas Morse, head of the NAO, said: "The department has set providers stretching performance targets and it needs to ensure that they do not cut corners to stay in profit, such as targeting easy-to-reach people, reducing service levels or treating subcontractors unfairly".

Lloyds said: "The extent to which Mr Horta-Osório will receive future awards will depend on the performance of Lloyds Banking Group in the short, medium and longer term against stretching performance measures, including earnings, profit and share price growth and expanding the group's SME lending portfolio".

Lastly, ever-increasing demands on radar performance in challenging environments have forced design engineers to stretch performance wherever possible.

There is consistent evidence that dynamic stretching improves performance measures such as agility, speed and strength whereas static stretching may actually decrease performance [ 2, 4, 24, 47- 50].

But "some research speaks in favor" of static stretching impairing performance in distance running and cycling, Dr. Markovic said.

Just why stretching hampers performance is not fully understood, although the authors of both of the new studies write that they suspect the problem is in part that stretching does exactly what we expect it to do.

Shrier I. "Does stretching improve performance?