And increasing rewards for those at the increasingly sharp peak of the income distribution have not called forth enough enterprising market competition to erode that peak.

Peak time The peak time is the time required for the response to reach the first peak of the overshoot.

Off peak Peak demand is considered to be the opposite to off peak hours when power demand is usually low.

The peak to peak voltage, being twice this, is about 340 volts.

Ms. Donna Sharp, Senior Partner, Sharp Global Partners Ltd., United States

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Its highest peak, Ras Dashan (4550 m), is the highest peak in Ethiopia.

Sharp stones are under him he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.

Peak load Peak demand, peak load or on peak are terms used in energy demand management describing a period in which electrical power is expected to be provided for a sustained period at a significantly higher than average supply level.

A similar calculation indicates that the peak to peak mains voltage in Europe is about 650 volts.

Well, I think out ahead of us a few decades is peak gas, and beyond that, peak renewables.

And so, 25 years ago, there was a peak oil just like, in the 1920s, there was a peak coal and a hundred years before that, there was a peak wood.

It is the second highest peak in the Alaska Range, and the third highest peak in the United States.

The knife is not sharp.

This knife is very sharp.

This knife is very sharp.

Come at ten o'clock sharp.

The highest peak is the Peak of Speleologists () but the dominant summit is a typical pyramidal horn of the Arabika Mount ().

This move attracted sharp criticisms online.

Large geomagnetic storms are most common during the peak of the eleven year sunspot cycle or during the three years after the peak.

The Indian response was swift and sharp.

But the division is not that sharp.

This lending squeeze resulted in a sharp drop in GDP and employment, while the sharp sell off in assets ensured further declines.

I looked away and heard a sharp scream.

The words were simple yet sharp and touching

because the real peak is hidden around the corner.

This is about 1990 peak of the crack epidemic.

Zimbabwe faced 231 million percent peak hyperinflation in 2008.

The average reduction was 40 since the national peak.

But by reducing your energy use, pretty much at the peak times usually when you have you air conditioning on, or other times like that this generates the peak power at the peak usage time, so it's very complementary in that sense.

So about seven years, eight years to reach your peak, and then gradually you fall off your peak, until you go back to the starting point.

In music, sharp, dièse (from French), or diesis (from Greek) means higher in pitch and the sharp symbol raises a note by a half tone.

But when he reached the mountain peak, he found the peak covered with countless flags of world conquerors before him, each one claiming 'I was here first' ...

Some who believe in the imminence of peak oil consider these barriers essentially irrelevant, arguing that their removal would merely delay the peak for a few years.

He's at the sharp knife edge of this problem.

Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

They show their peak activity just before the winter season.

At Napoli, Maradona reached the peak of his professional career.

Under Emperor Diocletian, the persecution of Christians reached its peak.

It is a fresh crater with a distinctive central peak.

We are now entering the peak of the lean season .

(b) Refer to Annex 1 for details of peak year.

The sharp fiscal retrenchment that has now started throughout southern Europe should contribute further to a sharp deceleration, if not outright fall, in domestic demand there.

How sharp of hearing , how sharp of sight they will be when they come to Us . But today , these evil doers are obviously lost in error .

But the track record of peak oil theorists on such matters has not been impressive their predictions have steadily moved forward the date that global oil production will peak.