This car has a better performance than that one.

They had a lower rate of school dropouts and a better academic performance than men.

This is better than the performance of many OECD countries.

Individual and team performance assessments should reflect this increased attention to a culture of partnership for better results

We owe that boy in Darfur more better performance a stronger connection between our declarations and our actions.

One can argue that economic performance would have been even better with less government intervention.

Controversy exists as to whether a particular body fat percentage is better for one's health athletic performance may also be affected.

An example could be that a software upgrade might improve system performance, but the business case is that better performance would improve customer satisfaction, require less task processing time, or reduce system maintenance costs.

By contrast, a better measure of economic performance might show that steps taken to improve the environment are good for the economy.

I started to learn classic ballet, jazz dance, acrobatics and other things to make my performance better.

Following strong performance in 2010, Germany s GDP exceeded pre crisis levels by early 2011, a somewhat better achievement than that of the US.

Several delegations welcomed the use of key performance indicators to enable UNICEF to better monitor its organizational efficiency.

A basic insight of NIE is that measuring transaction costs in various factor and product markets can reveal inefficiencies and barriers to better performance.

On average, performance might be somewhat better than in the past, but nowhere near as stellar as optimists expect.

Nor are there clearly identifiable differences in doctrine that should translate into a reasonable expectation of better economic performance under one party than the other.

They include validating a performance test strategy, developing a performance test plan, determining the sizing of test data sets, developing a performance test data plan, and identifying performance test scenarios.

For example, he pioneered the idea of school vouchers, arguing that private competition would ensure better educational performance than government systems.

Looking ahead, strong headwinds imply that it will be difficult to achieve better economic performance in the rest of the year.

The ability to map out complex cases and practice rare procedures before performing them on a patient will undoubtedly lead to better surgical performance and improved medical outcomes.

This allows the use of specially programmed FPGA chips or even custom VLSI chips, allowing better price performance ratios by sacrificing generality.

The Congress will inevitably be under acute pressure to perform, as the electorate now knows that better performance is not beyond its grasp.

The report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress will, one hopes, lead to a better understanding of the uses, and abuses, of that statistic.

Similarly, other studies have explored the extent to which shared leadership can predict a team's effectiveness or performance, and have found it to be a significant predictor, and often a better predictor than vertical leadership.

Picture of a mixed performance

Of course, Greenspan s behavior meant that under his watch, the economy performed better than it otherwise would have. But it was only a matter of time before that performance became unsustainable.

The mastery based population was a full standard deviation, or sigma, in achievement scores better than the standard lecture based class, and the individual tutoring gives you 2 sigma improvement in performance.

But, for emerging markets in Asia and elsewhere, we are convinced that the study of informal institutions, behavior, and norms offers a better understanding of the challenges of managing growth and performance.

A single system for all trading improves trader productivity and performance by giving better access to liquidity pools through electronic communication networks and reduces trade failures through improved, straight through processing facilities.

A performance recognition system that rewards excellent performance, both of individuals and teams, will be launched.

What happened? As long as the task involved only mechanical skill bonuses worked as they would be expected the higher the pay, the better the performance.

High oil prices are set to dampen economic performance in the rest of the world as well, although growth prospects look better than in the US.

There is some evidence of better performance in early adopters all of whom created substantial structural reforms to serve as the foundation for more flexible management but these reforms also involve a trade off.

A recital is a musical (vocal or instrumental) performance.

What all companies really need to do to improve their performance is to get better at listening to the conversations that are already out there on the Internet.

The Organization maintained a strong emphasis on improving client orientation in the delivery of services and implemented measures to produce better results in all areas, with a renewed focus on accountability through both performance measurement and strengthened reporting.

Thus, capacity for performance becomes a critical variable intervening between the organization's systems and practices and eventual performance itself.

Supply Division further developed key performance indicators to monitor its performance and a new emergency hub was opened in Dubai.

4 (a) Interim report of the External Auditor, financial performance report and programme performance report for the biennium 2004 2005

The UK s weaker performance is not the result of worse policies indeed, compared to the US, its bank bailouts and labor market policies were, in many ways, far better.

He began measuring systematic human performance using a bicycle ergometer, and began measuring sustained performance in terms of a person's ability to use oxygen.

It further welcomed the intention to better define performance indicators, especially in relation to achieving the Millennium Development Goals, and encouraged the Secretariat to include such indicators in the project documents so as to permit better monitoring and evaluation, as recommended by the Evaluation Group.

When it comes to the judiciary, it is clear that higher salaries for judges and clerks, better computer systems, and other technical equipment would improve the courts efficiency and performance.

A bit better.

But this is a multifaceted effort. We need more training, better intelligence, better forces and better coordination.

Performance measures