(1) Meanwhile Ukip is significantly outperforming its projected figure from most national polls, up 15 points on 23%, far above the 15% projected from national polling.
(2) British boys outperformed girls in science exercises by 20 percentage points – but the gap disappeared when the performances were adjusted for levels of self-confidence.
(3) Channel 4 said that despite "outperforming competitors in recent years" its economic model was being "continuously undermined by increased competition and a structural shift in advertising revenues from TV to online".
(4) Girls have also outperformed boys in terms of grades at A*-C. • In biology, physics and chemistry, girls outperform their male classmates at A* and A grades even though more boys than girls take these subjects.
(5) Sorrell warns ad industry against 'Don Draper-ish' optimism as Brexit vote looms Read more The company confirmed this week it would announce that from 2011 to 2015 WPP had outperformed its peers and the FTSE 100.
(6) For the quarter Europe, which has long been a dark spot for Ford, outperformed with sales rising 11%.
(7) The gilt's performance significantly outperformed others in the market on the day but fell back after the Bank took the "unprecedented step" of announcing it would not be buying it.
(8) He now expects TV ad revenue for the full year to be down 3% but expects the group to still outperform the UK TV ad market as whole.
(9) An analysis by the Guardian shows that most of the chief executives on the "decade of survival" list have steered their companies to outperform the FTSE 100 share index for most of their tenure.
(10) With figures adjusted for inflation , the 1965 release Thunderball is only a hair’s-breadth below Skyfall, while Goldfinger and You Only Live Twice both outperformed the other Craig films (as did the 70s Bonds, The Spy Who Loved Me and Live and Let Die).
(11) At the nine-month follow-up, while there were no statistically significant differences between the groups on any dependent measure, the E-group outperformed the C-group on all dependent measures.
(12) At lower rates of sludge application the swine outperformed those foraging both on control plots and those receiving heavy sludge applications in terms of weight gain, in-utero piglet survival, blood hemoglobin, and tissue Fe concentrations.
(13) Our titles continue to outperform, subscriptions have increased and we retain market share in many sectors.
(14) Discounters continue to grow sales faster than other food retailers, while Waitrose outperformed with a stellar sales growth of +12% in the four weeks to 18 August – helped by shoppers spending more per visit on food and drink – making them this period’s winner across the supermarket sector.
(15) Our democracies haven’t done a very good job in this globalised world.” That said, he doesn’t think the new party of the right, Alternative for Germany, may be the threat it appears (in elections earlier this month, it outperformed Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats ).
(16) In two-way avoidance paradigms, albinos appear to outperform pigmented rats.
(17) They also noted that the bank boss has presided over an increase in business loans and an astonishing bounceback in the Lloyds share price, which outperformed all other members of the FTSE 100 index of leading companies.
(18) At each testing interval, both mnemonic condition groups outperformed the placebo group.
(19) In addition, the younger adults outperformed the elderly in all mode by rate combinations; however, attenuated age differences in recall were observed for the bimodally presented sentences at a slow presentation rate.
(20) He also predicted that the company would outperform the wider supermarket sector over the next 12 months, which he expected to record positive like-for-like sales growth despite the continuing pressure on consumers.
Surpass
Definition:
(v. t.) To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel.
Example Sentences:
(1) They argue that the US, the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases per capita (China recently surpassed us in sheer volume), needs to lead the fight to limit carbon emissions, rather continuing to block global treaties as it has done in the past.
(2) Thereafter, donor type cells expressed an intermediate Thy 1.2 brightness; this population then persisted and surpassed the other subsets.
(3) Funding for Title X declined during the 1980s and is now surpassed by Medicaid as the largest source of family planning dollars.
(4) Results demonstrated that community clients surpassed institutional clients in social and cognitive skills, but not in daily living skills.
(5) Studies show that professionals often fail to reach reliable or valid conclusions and that the accuracy of their judgements does not necessarily surpass that of laypersons, thus raising substantial doubt that psychologists or psychiatrists meet legal standards for expertise.
(6) Liberia, Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Niger have already reached or surpassed the MDG target.
(7) Some 59.29 % had opposed the remuneration report, a rebellion only exceeded by one at Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) at the height of the banking crisis, and surpassing the 59% that voted against the £6.8m pay deal for Sir Martin Sorrell at his advertising company WPP in 2012.
(8) The hyperglycaemic response to nickel of female rats was more marked than that of males, with an increase in intracellular glucose, more marked during pregnancy, which even surpassed the plasma concentration of glucose.
(9) Their hearty laughter far surpassed any private hopes of entertaining this endearingly stodgy bunch.
(10) In hepatitis B patients no coincidence of the results has been observed: the count of theophylline-sensitive E-RFC on conversion to the total E-RFC count surpassed the count of T gamma-cells.
(11) The results surpassed all expectations and the change process has instilled a new sense of pride among nurses at the hospital and sparked the development of training sessions for other nurses in the region.
(12) More than 50% of excessively subnormal motility indexes improved to a level approaching or surpassing normal, making motility the single most significant aspect of the effects of ligation on semen quality.
(13) The men and women between them can now boast four medals at this Games, surpassing their targets (they had hoped for one or two), not to mention the British women's best placing in 84 years in the team final.
(14) It is suggested that though competition with the maternal-nurturant rival may be worked through, often there is incomplete resolution of the surpassing and separation from the protective, loving, but dominant oedipal father, thus limiting true professional autonomy.
(15) Although there are several complications, myocutaneous (MC) island flap surpassed the deltopectoral (DP) flap in the reconstruction of the pharyngo-esophagus, tongue, oral cavity, mandible, and of a massive defect.
(16) What an inspiration: teaching us all to embrace life, look after each other, and have love and compassion no matter what May 14, 2014 Comedian Jason Manford, who championed Stephen's cause and helped him surpass his fundraising goal, released a statement on Wednesday afternoon: Guardian readers have also added their tributes in the comments of the article about his death, with one reflecting on the way Stephen mastered social media in order to raise money for charity and document his story.
(17) When continued success was not forthcoming, and as later-maturing peers caught up to and surpassed his athletic accomplishments, the student sought to protect his sense of self-esteem by rationalizing that his lack of success was due to a physical problem.
(18) Two main arguments have stimulated the development of hydrogel and silicone lenses: flexibility allows folding and thus insertion through a small incision, and inertness promises excellent biocompatibility, possibly surpassing that of PMMA.
(19) This prompted Cameron to warn that the danger posed by Islamic State (Isis) extremists presented the biggest security threat of modern times, surpassing that of al-Qaida.
(20) Against vincristine, the cells showed a greater than 5,000-fold increase in resistance, far surpassing their resistance to the selection drug.