Sentence examples for ambiguous standard from inspiring English sources

Contrary to global practice, India added a unique and ambiguous standard to patentability, the so-called "enhanced efficacy," which may contravene international agreements.

Because "hostilities" is "an ambiguous standard," he has argued, the president need not withdraw forces to meet the resolution's requirement of an automatic pull-out, 60 days after "hostilities" begin, absent express Congressional approval for the war.

Dobbs calls himself an "advocacy journalist," but he doesn't even live up to that ambiguous standard.

It's not empty per se, its just a feeling that I'm not doing well enough by some ambiguous standard I'm not quite sure why I hold myself to.

But with business practices changing so quickly -- and becoming increasingly subtle and complex -- auditors need the guidance of comprehensive, and often necessarily ambiguous, standards.

Mr. Falcon also took issue with the company's presentation that the accounting issues reflected judgments over ambiguous standards, saying that these were "black-and-white issues".

This article reveals that the most likely explanation of what really happened is that an understaffed I.R.S. office attempted some ill-advised shortcuts to cope with an out-of-control workload it was supposed to evaluate using ambiguous standards.

The majority returns the case to the Circuit Court for this partial recount of undervotes on the basis of unknown or, at best, ambiguous standards with authority to obtain help from others, the credentials, qualifications and objectivity of whom are totally unknown.

For standardization bodies, it would cause a decreased product quality: ambiguous terminology will lead to ambiguous standards.

We need to rely on qualified employee wellness practitioners, like registered dietitians (RDs) who are pros at prevention, rather than resorting to ambiguous standards which do not exist for employee wellness practitioners.

The authors note that because of ambiguous international standards, "PIN requirements vary significantly but the minimal four-digit length predominates".