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How to use the word performing in a Sentence? Page #6

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In the end, what 20,000 fans inside London's O2 Arena witnessed was me giving 100 percent effort but performing way below world level, for my fans, it must have been like going to support their favorite thoroughbred racehorse at the Grand National, only to see their stallion stumble out the gates like a sedated mule at the Donkey Derby.

Londoner Haye

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Obviously it's a great feeling to see both teams performing so well, teams progress to playoffs and finals and deeper into a tournament, we get more exposure.

Rahul Kadavakolu

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

They have seen an opportunity to get a decent slab of commercial assets, primarily in the Sydney market, which has been the best-performing market for sometime, but they are paying a big price in an environment where interest rates are likely go up.

Winston Sammut

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Today the president is fulfilling his promise to promote more efficient government by reforming our civil service rules, these executive orders will make it easier for agencies to remove poor-performing employees and ensure that taxpayer dollars are more efficiently used.

Andrew Bremberg

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Cryptocurrency mining as a threat has been growing rapidly, and the threat actors have been looking at ways to increase their victim size so they can increase the number of devices performing the mining function, the more systems, the faster the mining operation, and hence the faster money can be made. This is one of many ways cybercriminals are looking to support their efforts.

Jon Clay

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

When you exercise, you turn on the attention systems, so that means you're( paying) better attention, you're able to deal with more frustration, you're able to stay with it longer, you're able to manipulate information by turning... on the front part of our brain to make it work better, and that's really key and important in terms of taking in information as well as performing with it.

John Ratey

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It’s still early but we plan on having new music as early as 2019, even while I’m on stage playing I can sort of map out ideas while I’m performing other songs; I can sort of see how I would write something. It’s weird, but when you get to a certain point on tour, you can write your grocery list while you’re on stage, so I was actually kind of writing some ideas in my head while I was performing.

Deryck Whibley

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

He came to visit and told me, ‘Chuck, you have to pray and you have to ask for the acceptance of God’s will in your life’, … I fell asleep in the middle of a horrific withdrawal… But there is no sleep really because your body is just aching, it’s electric… [But] when I woke up, the obsession was gone. And I knew God had helped me. Chuck Negron performing today. (Courtesy of Chuck Negron) I believe God came and did for me what I couldn’t do for myself and relieved me from the bondage of addiction… I knew God had helped me. From that time on my faith grew stronger and stronger. It changed my life.

Chuck Negron

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I am actually not a supporter of Trump, I’ve gone on the record multiple times saying that. I tweeted that a few years ago – a couple of years ago? And you know it was – my fans were quick to enlighten me about why I shouldn’t be a supporter. ...When I am performing I will I’ll do throwback songs, but I don’t really go that route.

Aaron Carter

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

As a guitarist, songwriter and visionary he was a perfectionist and a unique man, he always stuck to his guns and did and said exactly what he wanted. He took great pride in all that he endeavored. His loyalty to the fans was unsurpassed. Rock band AC/DC, from left, Brian Johnson, Malcolm Young, Phil Rudd, Angus Young, and Cliff Williams performing on stage during a concert in German in 2003. ((AP Photo/Jan Pitman).

Angus Young

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We were an hour away from her sister’s home and, after performing the night before and then knowing she would have a long night that following evening, she still drove to Hastings to spend the day with her niece.

Chad Barnhill

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Organizations like Marie Stopes International and the International Planned Parenthood Federation have reported performing over 1 million abortions annually.

Chris Smith

Found on CNN
6 years ago

In Philadelphia, at least 18 teachers who never set foot in a classroom last year received over $1.7 million from the school district while performing union work during school hours, another concern is that the district has no knowledge or control over what teachers are doing while on this type of leave — the teachers could be working toward goals that the district believes could be harmful to its operation.

Patrick Stefano

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

There will not be any drastic changes to Jakarta, Anies will not apply Sharia law, but now this is a steep learning curve for politicians and political parties at seeing how (effective) religious issues are, even when used against an incumbent who was performing very well.

Tobias Basuki

Found on CNN
6 years ago

I don’t apologize for performing for our country or military, i performed at events for previous presidents [George W.] Bush and [Barack] Obama and over 200 shows in Iraq and Afghanistan for the USO.

Toby Keith

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

That’s tantalizing because it suggests that maybe one of the things the short sleepers are doing in the scanner is performing memory consolidation more efficiently than non-short sleepers.

Jeff Anderson

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

How many times do you give someone to make it right? It was all about performing, not about money.

Jeff Popick

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

This week's successful tests show the boom axial loads hardware fix, designed by Boeing engineers, is performing as expected to alleviate the loads.

Air Force

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Risk appetite has declined because of the Brexit vote, sectors that are performing well today are only those that have reacted positively to the dollar.

Jeremy Zirin

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

He was performing ‘I Would Do Anything For Love,’ and all of a sudden in the middle of it he collapsed right on stage. We weren’t sure at first whether it was part of the act or it was something for real.

Lindsay Sundmark

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Heroes lift us all through their sacrifice, compelling us to be our best through their example, mike Katherman was that hero, performing his noble duty to serve and protect until his last moments. I ask our residents to join in sending our prayers and thoughts to Mike’s wife, his sons, his family and friends, and the entire SJPD family during this time of grief.

San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It has those three great actresses and then the male lead [Chris Hemsworth], but I was just like they should have had better material for those ladies, now that movie probably, I don’t think is performing well, and then will they make another movie with three great powerful women after that?

Chlo Sevigny

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I think the reality is that we are going to continue to grow our earnings because the business is performing strongly at the moment, it's going to be a balancing act in terms of the degree of earnings growth - that's something we are evaluating.

Chief Executive Karim Bitar

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Given where we are today with women in the military performing virtually all kinds of functions, I personally think it would be appropriate for them to register just like men do.

Mitch McConnell

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

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