The opening performance of the side proved disappointing from the tourists ' point of view, with defeats in its opening three matches by Western Province sides in Cape Town.

Similar to the AMD K5, the Cyrix 6x86 was a design far more focused on integer per-clock performance than clock scalability, something that proved to be a strategic mistake.

The Model B, introduced in 1986, introduced a solid cast flywheel ( now enclosed by a cage ) and the first digital performance monitor, which proved revolutionary.

The first microkernels, notably Mach, proved to have disappointing performance, but the inherent advantages appeared so great that it was a major line of research into the late 1990s.

Unfortunately performance proved to be a major problem, and a number of architectural changes were made in order to solve this problem.

Wilde proved to be a diligent reviser, sending detailed instructions on stage directions, character listings and the presentation of the book, and insisting that a playbill from the first performance be reproduced inside.

The Hells Angels provided security that proved far less benevolent than the security provided at the Woodstock event: 18-year-old Meredith Hunter was stabbed and killed during The Rolling Stones ' performance after he brandished a gun and waved it toward the stage.

GD's YF-16 first flew in January 1974, and proved to have slightly better performance than the YF-17 in head-to-head testing.

Entropy is low ; this can be proved by reflecting that tomorrow night's performance of the play will finish with the table in a virtually identical ' disorder '— which therefore cannot really be disorder at all.

Despite a slight drop-off in performance, the Flyers dominated the Patrick Division with what proved to be their fourth straight division title.

They lost their Navarre seat in the 1989 election and lost a further 2 seats in the 1996 election, which overall proved to be the party's worst performance in terms of vote share.

The performance featured tunes by Dion and the Belmonts and The Four Freshmen (" It's a Blue World "), the latter of which proved difficult for the ensemble to carry off.

Styling of this little car was by Peter Kirwan-Taylor ( better known for his work with Colin Chapman of Lotus cars ), but it proved to be too heavy for the diminutive engine to endow it with adequate performance.

" Alessandra Stanley from the New York Times asserted that Louis-Dreyfus's performance on the series proved she is " one of the funniest women on network television.

The 2001 live action / animation hybrid Osmosis Jones, starring Bill Murray, was a costly commercial failure, although its home video performance proved successful enough for WB's TV Animation Department to produce a short-lived spin-off series called Ozzy and Drix.

The recording hiatus ended in 1999, with the album Strange Times, which proved to be the group's first album in almost two decades to be more than moderately received by UK critics, although Justin Hayward was quoted as saying he was disappointed at the album's chart performance – probably not helped by the long recording hiatus – which was notably less than ' Keys of the Kingdom ' in 1991.

However, the Porsche Cayenne soon proved that it was the performance vehicle among SUV's and was praised for its excellent handling and powerful engines.

During design, it proved necessary to reduce the clock speeds, making it clear that Stretch could not meet its aggressive performance goals, but estimates of performance ranged from 60 to 100 times the IBM 704.

A well-received performance as Ben Carson in Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story ( 2009 ) and a small supporting role in Ridley Scott's American Gangster ( 2007 ) both proved to be exceptions to this trend.

The study found that none of the alternative tests, taken alone, proved to be a reliable replacement for the animal test, however a post hoc analysis of the data found that in certain combinations of tests, an " excellent performance " was observed.

His Carrier Striking Task Force lost four carriers in what proved to be the turning point of the Pacific War, and the massive losses of carrier aircraft maintenance personnel would prove decisive to the performance of the Japanese navy in later engagements.

With an ever growing loyal fan-base and a recent live performance on BBC Radio, Aguilar has proved that she is one of the most talented writers and performers of her generation.

Her performance of the concerto proved so popular that she returned three years in succession to perform the work.

Riding high in the polls, it appeared that the party was poised to win the 1986 election against the unpopular Social Credit government of the day but due to a minor verbal gaffe by its new leader Bob Skelly during the campaign and the surprising charisma and telegenic performance of the Socreds ' new leader William Vander Zalm, the party failed to score its anticipated breakthrough.

An unpopular provincial budget by Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty hurt the federal Liberals ' numbers in Ontario, as did a weak performance from Martin in the leaders ' debates.

It was widely speculated that Wilson cancelled the event out of fear of being booed by Bills fans for the team's chronic poor performance on the field and a series of highly unpopular managerial decisions.

This mis-selling, combined with the poor stock market performance of the late 1990s, has resulted in endowment mortgages becoming unpopular.

It has been suggested that the impetus for NHTSA's seeming preoccupation with market control rather than vehicular safety performance is a result of overt market protections such as tariffs and local-content laws having become politically unpopular due to the increasing popularity of free trade.

The difference, according to Pevere, is that the economics of television production in Canada mean that whereas an unpopular American sitcom may be cancelled and largely forgotten after just a few weeks, Canadian television networks can rarely afford to lose their investment — meaning that a Canadian sitcom almost always airs every episode that was produced, regardless of its performance in the ratings.

However, the rebuilds gained a reputation for rough – riding and relatively poor efficiency when compared to the N15s, and were dissimilar in performance to the original L class locomotives, making them unpopular with crews.

Although the Series E lenses were unpopular with Nikon buyers, several of the Series E lenses exhibited excellent performance, particularly the 50 mm f / 1. 8 ( pancake ), the 100 mm f / 2. 8, and the 75 – 150 mm constant f / 3. 5 zoom.

Since 1944 he has also conducted regularly at the San Francisco Opera, where he made his debut with a memorable performance of Verdi's Falstaff.

I believe that what I do has some effect on his actions and I have learned, in a way, to commune with drunks, but certainly my actions seem to resemble more nearly the performance of a rain dance than the carrying out of an experiment in physics.

That this abandonment takes place on a stage, during an ' artistic ' performance, is enough to associate Jacoby with art, and to bring down upon him the punishment for art ; ;

To do this successfully required great skill and a special talent for both solemn and ribald raillery, a talent not bestowed on many persons, but one with which Milton was marked as being endowed and in which, at least in this performance, he obviously reveled.

President Kennedy has indicated his dissatisfaction with its performance.

Employees deduct expenses of travel, meals and lodging while away from home in connection with the performance of their services as employees.

They also deduct transportation expenses incurred in connection with the performance of services as employees even though they are not away from home.

And yet, despite some disappointment with the performance of this first year of the new decade, 1960 has been a good year in many ways, with many overall measures of business having reached new peaks for the year as a whole.

But having lived with the disc for some time now, I find the performance less exciting than either Schnabel's or Fleisher's ( whose superb performance with the Budapest Quartet has still to be recorded ) and a good deal less filled with humor than Curzon's.

The easiest way to describe this release is to say that it reproduces an interesting and effective Steinberg performance with minimal alteration of its musical values.

The effect of the recording is very open and natural, with the frequency emphasis exactly what you would expect from a live performance.

It is this subject matter that has brought Mason a large and enthusiastic following among sportsmen, but it is his exceptional performance with this motif that commends him to artists and discerning collectors.

Soaring to stardom along with him, Margo Felicity Brighetti, a luscious and curvaceously beguiling Italian starlet, turns in a creditable performance as an airplane mechanic.

Interviewing, checking references, training the salesmen, having them go with more experienced salesmen was expensive -- and the rate of attrition due to resignations or unsatisfactory performance was too high.

The pain and distress associated with the performance may easily give the wife a deep-seated dread of marital relations and cause her, unconsciously, to make the sex act unpleasant and difficult for both by exercising her vaginal muscles to complicate his penetration instead of relaxing them to facilitate it.

The announcement that the city would sue for recovery on the performance bond was made by City Solicitor David Berger at a press conference following a meeting in the morning with Wagner and other officials of the city and the PTC as well as representatives of an engineering firm that was pulled off the El project before its completion in 1959.

It got the kind of scrambled, coarsened performance that can happen to best of orchestras when the man with the baton lacks technique and style.

I was delighted with Paula Prentiss' comedy performance, which was as fresh and unstilted as one's highest hopes might ask.

Cottard and Tarrou attend a performance of Gluck's opera Orpheus and Eurydice, but the actor portraying Orpheus collapses with plague symptoms during the performance.