How To Use Excellence In A Sentence

Academic excellence was matched with extra-curricular activities of every description - from drama through sport to foreign travel.
Bromley's sporting talent is to be rewarded in the Excellence Awards in recognition of their achievements.
Some people are perfectionists, constantly striving for excellence.
The foundation of lasting self- confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work. Brian Tracy
The hospice model of care is now espoused as a model of excellence and has led to a worldwide hospice movement aspiring to deliver high quality care to dying patients.

Such survivals in the unbroken tradition of the cottage garden are now rare examples of such excellence and are very scarce indeed.
In a country where universities emphasise competitive sports sometimes even more than academics, Notre Dame, in Indiana, was long the paragon of undergraduate football excellence.
Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence. Vince Lombardi
I only know that it is the best which I can find, to express one excellence which we see in our Lord, which is like what we call modesty in common human beings. Town and Country Sermons
Excellence in defense management will not and cannot emerge by legislation or directive.
This article describes the control principle of soft starter of alternate current electric motor, and the excellence and characteristic than normal starter.
The company's Queen's Award was approved by Her Majesty in April last year in acknowledgement of export excellence.
The school is now fully equipped and ready to strive for excellence in the world of information technology.
I focus on eight players because six running backs and two alternates are elected to the Pro Bowl each year so that seems to be a fair marker for a standard of excellence.
It doesn't need gimmicks to attract youth, it needs excellence and, in particular, it needs excellence at international level.
And let me the cannikin clink," and ending, "Why then let a soldier drink," Cassio commends the excellence of the ditty. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays
German smoking-tobaccoes are favorites with students here, but owe their excellence to their mode of manufacture. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860
The charity aims to highlight excellence and encourage best practice in teaching by raising the profile and public perception of the teaching profession.
This is self-fulfilling prophecy par excellence. POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
My parents sent me to the Castle to get a broader education, excellence ," she replied, almost whispering it. KING OF DREAMS
Once a field of interest has been chosen, dedication and single-minded pursuit of excellence is boundless.
He was the humorous and satirical idyllist _par excellence_, and laid the scenes of his romances in idyllic surroundings, using the trifling events of daily life to wonderful purpose. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times
Since that remote day Gladstone has been four times Premier; has delivered numberless speeches of the highest order of excellence; has published a multitude of pamphlets and volumes which attest consummate intellectual gifts, and has been a great force in English statesmanship and scholarship through an exceptionally long life and almost to the very close of it. The Grand Old Man
It is not enough to reach the summit of pocket billiards excellence.
There is nothing unfeminine about striving for athletic excellence.
Opinions are divided about its excellence as an example of oratory; some finding a self-consciousness in it which is unapostolic. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
CTI is a contributor to the Boeing Future Combat Systems program, and Boeing and CTI are partners in the U.S.Army's Fires Center of Excellence integration effort.
He also sought to impart a philosophy of diligence, persistence, and excellence.
This can be done by combining the pursuit of sporting excellence with the provision of time for family, friends, other interests and self-development.
Darlington could become a regional centre of excellence for nursery nurse training.
Hrabowski ingrains a sense of excellence and discipline in his students.
Having eaten there but once - and I was a guest so didn't have to pay, either - I was almost overawed by its excellence.
It is awarded biennially for excellence in physical organic chemistry embracing the relationship between structure and reactivity.
In the capital of the empire the Taoist priesthood includes: two Tao-lu-sze, superiors, a title corresponding with that of the Buddhists, seng-lu-sze; two Cheng-i, Taoists of right simplicity; two Yen-fa, ritual Taoists; two Che-ling, Taoists of great excellence, thaumaturgus; and two Che-i, Taoists of great probity, an inferior class of priests. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
These cultural notions run counter to the quest for academic excellence.
On the other hand, epideictic rhetoric implies that tradition or social standing authorizes the rhetor to locate the object of praise in the criteria of excellence.
Overall excellence for each has now become something of a byword on the music scene; in other words, the programme content is a display for some of the finest young talents around to do the works full justice.
The Business School has a reputation for excellence in research.
Moreover, in whiteness are many excellences; for instance, the snow falleth white from heaven, and it is traditional-that the beautifullest of a colours white. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
This seems to be based on flashes of excellence rather than anything resembling rounded international class. Times, Sunday Times
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellence of heart.
Envy is blind and kows nothing except how to depreciate the excellence of others.
This centre of excellence in leadership is located here in Toronto. Financial Sector Regulation: Partnering for Success
The apostle Paul implores us to be a thinking people - a people who press toward excellence and praiseworthy things.
To see how men began to entertain values and engage in the pursuit of excellence we need additional sources of information.
A counterargument would stress that the greatest learning is derived from the inimitable, silence betrays cowardice, disaffiliation and indie culture give the lie to the unavoidability of affiliation, the literary field exists in many sites other than the academy, self-victimization is the reigning philosophy, program writers are more self-commodifying than the disaffiliated, the system purges internal feedback from dissenters, and the end of excellence is well in sight. Anis Shivani: Can Writing Be Taught? The Systems-Theory Rationalizations Of An Insider
It will soon be well known that the surest way to inflict pain upon you is to extol the excellences or to dwell on the happiness of others, and your failings will be considered an amusing subject for jesting observation to experimentalize upon. The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends
In its place is the miter, the representation par excellence of the episcopate.
Pursue excellence and success will follow.
Org, the state of the news business in the United States is the "bleakest" in the six years it has been tracked by the Project for Excellence in Journalism at the Pew Research Center. Reflections of a Newsosaur
If strength, elasticity, clearness, and perfect freedom from viscidity, be tests of excellence, then this product may be considered as equal to any other. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
In its place is the miter, the representation par excellence of the episcopate.
A Quiet Excellence: an A+ yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'A Quiet Excellence: an A+ '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: But there is an empty chair at the party. A Quiet Excellence: an A+
It contains within itself a complete gradation from fashionable excellence to fashionable villany; from fashionable virtue to fashionable vice; fashionable ladies and gentlemen, fashionable pimps, demireps, and profligates. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
It began as a wine bar, and the origins show through in the excellence of the wine list and cheese board.
In reality many consultants move freely between systems, providing clinical excellence to patients in both. Times, Sunday Times
Much of the ceiling is fretwork, and fresco par-excellence, in gilded gold.
Gigged, caught, netted, hand grabbed, or caught with a spinning outfit and plastic worm, a frog is a gourmet's delight, a trip into culinary excellence, a treat for the taste-buds. Since when have frogs been considered small game? Why would you waste ammo shooting one?
Chemistry was par excellence the laboratory science of the early nineteenth century.
One is the attitude of excellence, you know, to seek to excel and glorify God with the gifts and talents and abilities that he has given us.
Human productivity and excellence, if achieved by way of human desecration and abuse, can only result in eventual catastrophe.
One of the most vital elements to consider with business creation was, he argued, the pursuit of excellence.
In Act Two, though, the excellence of the play surmounts all obstacles, and hits piercingly home.
I like the slow pace, the remorseless march towards excellence, my own drooping eyelids. Times, Sunday Times
Whether potential can be turned into the hard facts of consistent excellence is the question. Times, Sunday Times
Her chief excellence as a novelist was her loving depiction of life in large families, particularly sibling relationships, presented with convincing dialogue and unstinted incident.
Papa would pretend to gobble, to emphasize this " excellence. ".
He is a micro-manager par excellence, convinced of his own indispensability. Chávez returns to Venezuela after tumour removed in Cuba
And beauty, as a term signifying (like health) an indisputable excellence, has been a perennial resource in the issuing of peremptory evaluations.
Achieving surgical excellence requires striking the right balance between quality of care and financial performance.
Sure, the book was critically panned; but literary excellence was never on the agenda.
The workshop will provide valuable tools to promote excellence in the teaching of psychology.
And flying by the seat of his pants by guesting with a band with which he had never played, Ben Hazelton, a bassist of some considerable excellence, provided cover for the bass chair.
It was a damp squib, and its inevitable failure came about because its priority was not excellence, but money. Times, Sunday Times
This original, undistorted idea of sport as a meaningful, dignified pursuit of physical excellence can be traced back to the ancient Olympics and to the various traditions of martial arts.
The impossibility, however, to find any one of equal excellence as a performer (that is to say, in his more lucid and orderly moments) had forced his reinstalment, and he had now, for the most part, reconciled himself to the narrow sphere of his appointed adagios or allegros. Zanoni
Second, when salary raises were distributed, excellence in teaching would be weighed just as heavily as excellence in research.
As idealizations, they appear to be predicated on normative but contradictory and ultimately irreconcilable understandings of excellence.
Everybody knows that sport should be about parochial self-interest rather than silly old excellence. Times, Sunday Times
Life's like a play: It's not the length,but the excellence of the acting that matters.
Such small to medium-sized companies are building a multinational business on excellence and leadership in one small ecological niche. MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
The moral excellences are handed on from father to son.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. Vince Lombardi
There is a difference between excellence and elitism. Times, Sunday Times
It became difficult to promote excellence without being accused of elitism.
We will make ourselves known through speaking engagements, webinars, videos, and interviews, all the while delivering the same level of quality and excellence we strive towards.
It's crucial to have a nationally recognized standard of excellence in music teaching.
Its recommendations include language training and centres of vocational excellence.
In draft guidance, the U.K.'s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence said, NICE's independent appraisal committee has looked carefully at the evidence provided on the use of belimumab for treating SLE systemic lupus erythematosus, including the views of people with the condition, those who represent them, and clinical specialists. Lupus Drug Suffers U.K. Setback
A substantial number of maladies like inferiority complex, emotionally reactive behavior, lack of responsibility, lack of interest in education, etc. stem from such educational setups, which despite its fame of excellence portrays a Darwinic image of “the survival of the fittest” instead of the Muhammadan image of “the emancipation of the weakest”. Archive 2007-11-01
Clearly the terms have something in common: the reference to excellence, to authority, and to the relation to antiq - uity. CLASSICISM IN LITERATURE
And, in fact, the few who since the revival of letters have deserted Christianity for what they called philosophic heathenism, have in almost every case sympathised, not with the excellences, but with the worst vices of the Greek and Literary and General Lectures and Essays
But it polices a treacherous faultline between clinical excellence and rationing. Times, Sunday Times
Thou askest me of two excellent men, each having his own excellence. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Just give the disappointing sequel a miss for fears of spoiling the excellence that lies within this self-contained laid-back comedic charmer.
We have a lot of talent in UP, but the films seem to lack technical and creative excellence.
Remember that your greatest ethical responsibility is to constantly strive for excellence in everything you do.
Here, parexcellence, is the meeting of the ways for developmental and evolutionary biology.
A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellence of heart.
The Canadian Obesity Network, therefore joined hands with two other Networks of Centres of Excellence (the Canadian Stroke Network and the Advanced Foods and Materials Network) in awarding the 2009 Canadian “Salt Lick Award” to a major source of excess salt in our diet - PIZZA! Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » And the 2009 “Salt Lick” Award goes to Pizza!
On the personal level is the revalidation, there are also clinical excellence awards. Times, Sunday Times
The torch mark's flames gradually evolve into a perfect star symbolizing each athlete's pursuit of excellence.
The excellence of the artists and performers was enhanced by the great food and wine.
The creative minds behind building designs across York and North Yorkshire were celebrating today after scooping an armful of gongs for architectural excellence.
Typically, the postdoc has previously demonstrated some excellence with subtopic N, and the advisor trusts that the postdoc will have some fresh insights into subtopic P. Archive 2008-04-01
As prostitute par excellence, the example of the Magdalen could be called upon to reveal the way forward for women needing to seek repentance from sexual misconduct (the theme so searingly explored in the movie of the Irish magdalens).
The excellence of a wife consists not in her beauty, but in her virtue.
Speak up and tell your representatives that now is the time for excellence, not expedience.
It is envisaged as a fully accessible cultural building and a centre for excellence in innovation.
The college aims to be a world centre of excellence in the field of marine biology.
In Worcestershire, the education authority is committed to parity of excellence for all of its comprehensive schools.
Science standards promulgated by a national body and adopted by state education authorities do not ensure excellence and equity.
It is still about the search for victory; it is still about partisanship, drama and excellence. Times, Sunday Times
Desire is the key that unlocks the door to motivation, courage, determination, excellence and action. Dr T.P.Chia
But it polices a treacherous faultline between clinical excellence and rationing. Times, Sunday Times
The second is an ability to look for excellence in whatever one does, regardless of external criteria of rewards and recognition.
The humility in her woeful eyes almost disclaims the homespun excellence of her clothes.
The owner of the Valle Grande Country House, Ernano Barretta, 63, is in jail in Italy; his accomplice, gigolo par excellence Helg Sgarbi, 41, was arrested in Austria and is in prison in Germany facing trial for extortion. RNB QuickLinks: Heidi Klum, a noisy church burglar, and ‘Christian’ gossip
It's been a teaser campaign par excellence. Times, Sunday Times
Most important of all, the reputation of the Court as the expositor par excellence of constitutional meaning was at stake.
Why is the assessment of editorial excellence as murky as critical judgment of poetry, chamber music or architecture?
Mathews concocts burlesques and parodies of such rare excellence as to put one in mind of the broad literary japery of Terry Southern at his most inspired.
Altar-tombs with cumbent effigies were painted so as to correspond in tone with the colours displayed on the walls; the pavement of encaustic tiles, of different devices, was interspersed with sepulchral slabs and inlaid brasses; and screen-work, niches for statuary, mouldings, and sculpture of different degrees of excellence, abounded. The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed.
Depending on your point of view, this can constitute either an opportunity for excellence or a disaster in the making.
Leaders in service excellence train their people to drive continuous improvement. Times, Sunday Times
The excellence of the intention is fully and readily recognised, but, for all practical purposes, the letter has received very much the same treatment at the hands of the Northern public as that usually assigned to intermeddlers in conjugal differences. London, Saturday, September28, 1861.
To suggest that students might opt out on grounds of conscience or sensitivity undermines the pursuit of academic excellence and is intellectually unsound. Times, Sunday Times
Desire is the key that unlocks the door to motivation, courage, determination, excellence and action. Dr T.P.Chia
Our National Institute for Clinical Excellence NICE, a typically Blairite acronym has done cost-benefit analyses of drugs and procedures, often very sensibly, for years. New Efficiencies in Health Care? Not Likely
Some of the necessary steps towards true excellence will be straightforward. Times, Sunday Times
The school has also won a string of awards for sporting and academic excellence.
Centres of excellence for food and drink manufacturers could be set up in Yorkshire as part of a new national academy.
The company is particularly known for the excellence of its stone masonry. Times, Sunday Times
Admittedly, Kayla is a Drama Queen par excellence. Brave New World
When the playing field is the worldwide internet and today's trailblazers can just as easily become tomorrow's forgotten url, Phair's dedication to continued excellence anchors The Outnet firmly in untraversed waters. Anisha Lakhani: Social Media Princess Stephanie Phair: The New Face of the Outnet Empire
Scrapbooking is not now, nor has it ever been about achieving design excellence.
Feynman's excellence as a communicator is a topic all to itself. Richard Feynman, his diagrams and his bongos
Medical schools used to put clinical excellence at the top of the agenda, at the expense of human contact and kindness.
Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Robert F. Kennedy
Am I giving up on establishing a standard of excellence that will serve him in good stead all his life? Christianity Today
Your magazine rarely falls below standards of excellence.
The shaman is the state shifter, the channel-changer par excellence, for the shaman is the master technician of ecstasy. Flowers of Wiricuta - book excerpt: chapter 6 Responsible Ecstasy
And he has a few choice words for the endless number of academies and centres of excellence.
Bonzer, boshter, bosker -- Adjectives expressing the superlative of excellence. The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke
A tantalus containing three kinds of spirit, all of a liqueur excellence, stood always on this table of luxury; but the fanciful have asserted that the whisky, brandy, and rum seemed always to stand at the same level. The Complete Father Brown
The author's credentials as an advocate for the popularity as well as the excellence of publicly-sponsored theatre are beyond question.
How did he achieve such excellence, such vivid diction, such lovely phrasing, such expressiveness?
It is a recognised indication of excellence which helps them compete with men in the early stages of their careers.
For the nurse, virtues and excellences are those habits that affirm and promote the values of human dignity, well-being, respect, health, independence, and other values central to nursing.
The secret to achieving excellence is taking advantage of opportunities.
Prince Ptolemy, farewell, and of thee will I make mention, even as of the other demigods; and a word methinks I will utter not to be rejected of men yet unborn, -- excellence, howbeit, thou shalt gain from Zeus. Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose
I insisted that it was not possible to encourage excellence while at the same time blurring the definition of failure.
Instead he went on about the excellence of the hotel cuisine, and she felt let down. YELLOW BIRD
The school is noted for its academic excellence.
The success of innovation means that a number of functional departments can perform their work, and they maintain the balance and coordination, not just one or two are superexcellence.
I like the slow pace, the remorseless march towards excellence, my own drooping eyelids. Times, Sunday Times
He hated mediocrity and always strived for perfection and excellence.
The school strives for academic excellence.
I just hope that they actually read it instead of dipping into it, though the excellence of the index may well encourage the latter.
The Nobel prize for literature often throws up controversy because artistic excellence is a more subjective criterion than scientific discovery. Times, Sunday Times
But he argues that the West, far from a monolithic bulwark against "diversity," is "the mongrel civilization par excellence"; the systole and diastole of contractive monoculturalism and expansive multiculturalism are its heartbeat. A Real-Life Renaissance Man
Over the next two decades the band of gentlemen gangstas would go through many line-ups, with personnel living in diverse corners of the world, but the standard of excellence would never dip.
This Hassler's chief excellence on the organ consists in his foot-work, which, since the pedals are graded here, is not so very wonderful.
Burrell received a 2004 Jazz Educator of the Year award from Down Beat magazine for academic achievement and excellence in jazz education.
We all greatly valued his incisive mind, his calm and patient approach to problems, and his enthusiasm in pursuit of academic excellence. Times, Sunday Times
They had a huge capacity for hunger and pursuit of excellence. Times, Sunday Times
Britain's top sportswomen gather for the ceremony that rewards their excellence. The Sun
Its excellence is a vivid demonstration of the healthy condition of the Folklore Society, and the remarkable progress of the discipline in England.
Hence the excellence of the sense of touch in [cont. below] p. Secured from frost the Bee industrious dwells, Canto III
Brantôme speaks of it with enthusiasm, and quotes it repeatedly; Lafontaine, the conteur par excellence, acknowledges his obligations to it; Montaigne calls it un gentil livre pour son etoffe – "a nice book for its matter;" and Bayle says it is, "after the manner of Boccace's novels," and "has beauties in that kind which are surprising. The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
The liberal class became seduced by the need for popular appeal, forgetting, as MacDonald wrote, that, quote, as in arts and letters, communicability to a large audience is an inverse ratio to the excellence of a political approach. Hedges Laments The 'Death Of The Liberal Class'
Corddry was known for his consistent excellence in reporting on defense and foreign policy issues.
It came out on top at the strongly contested industry awards for engineering excellence - making it a record treble success.
One of the outcomes was the need for African centres of excellence in disease diagnosis and identification. Times, Sunday Times
One of the most outstanding activities of the Battalion was the production of a periodical which combined a considerable high level of artistic and literary excellence with a racy narrative of Battalion news and _personalia_. The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918
They talked about little things, such as the fine weather the City was enjoying and the excellence of the foods that Bardo served. THE BROKEN GOD
The company is justly proud of its technical excellence. MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
It takes an enormous level of commitment to attain quality and excellence.
It is epitomized by a historian's statement about Philip II of Spain, the most wooden-headed of all sovereigns: 'No experience of the failure of his policy could shake his belief in its essential excellence.' Europe's Leaders May Need History Lesson
Royal Navy minesweepers have been competing for the award of excellence since the 1970s when it was inaugurated by the original sponsors, Thomson Marconi Sonar Ltd.
As with churches, the professions, and the military, students are socialized into a culture and are expected to master its standards of excellence and ethics.
As partial academics they are unable to sponsor, promote or foster academic excellence.
Indeed, he has moved the sport on to a new plane of excellence.
The painter is a seriously anecdotal man, a raconteur par excellence who needs no aide-memoires, at age 77.
Chemistry was par excellence the laboratory science of the early nineteenth century.
This animal, from the excellence of its flesh, would be appropriate to our own country; and as there is also a splendid esculent frog nearly as large as a chicken, it would no doubt tend to perpetuate the present alliance if we made a gift of that to France. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
Introduced in 2008, the Ram 1500 is a game changer in terms of its ability to "outsmart" and "out-tough" the competition with its bold exterior design, crafted and refined interior, engineering excellence, superb innovation and best-in-class features and amenities. Automotive Headlines
The author's credentials as an advocate for the popularity as well as the excellence of publicly-sponsored theatre are beyond question.
One writer upon book-binding terms the forwarder of the book an artizan, and the finisher an artist; but both should have the true artist's taste, in order to produce the work that shall commend itself by intrinsic excellence. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries
Life's like a play: It's not the length,but the excellence of the acting that matters.
Arguably, he has overcome the first hurdle with excellence.
Don't dream of being perfect, work for excellence instead. Dr T.P.Chia
Dutchman's mouth water -- a "polder" of surpassing excellence, but it is viewed in a different light by enthusiastic wild duck shooters, who, like the owner of a grouse moor, look upon drainage and reclamation as the visible work of the devil. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
Pursue excellence and success will follow.
The excellence of their rugby players is based upon a profound grasp of the rudimentary. Times, Sunday Times
His treatises _De Inventione_ and _Topica_, the first and nearly the last of his compositions, are both on the invention of arguments, which he regards, with Aristotle, as the very foundation of the art; though he elsewhere confines the term eloquence, according to its derivation, to denote excellence of diction and delivery, to the exclusion of argumentative skill. [ Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity
The Mariinsky qualifies as one of the oldest musical institutions in Russia and excellence is not just expected but demanded from musicians who share a home with the Kirov Ballet and Kirov Opera.
If we combine these two assumptions, it can be assumed that everything performs its function only if it has the corresponding excellence and not evil.
Since it was set up in 1988, the Spinal Injuries Centre has gained a national reputation for excellence in rehabilitating patients who have been seriously injured in traffic accidents.
“Mountain of the Maker,” the artificer par excellence, that is, the blacksmith: it is so called from a legendary shoer of horses and mules, who lived there possibly in the days before The Land of Midian

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