Sentence examples for an imperfect knowledge from inspiring English sources

These contradictions arise in part from Saint-Just's complex character and in part from an imperfect knowledge of his childhood and adolescence.

But with "Barber" and a few other comedies constituting the bulk of modern-day Rossini performances, most opera-goers have an imperfect knowledge of the composer on whose shoulders 19th-century Italian opera traditions rest.

As no other examples have been found and as the inscription in Arabic indicates an imperfect knowledge of the language, it may be the work of a Byzantine craftsman working in the Artuqid kingdom.

For the Roman Lives he was handicapped by an imperfect knowledge of Latin, which he had learned late in life, for, as he explains in "Demosthenes," political tasks and the teaching of philosophy fully engaged him during his stay in Rome and Italy.

Figure 5 Comparison of RMSE of parameter estimation considering an imperfect knowledge of initial target positions.

As such, the ML search-based motion parameter estimation suffers a performance degradation in case of an imperfect knowledge about the initial positions of the targets.

Nevertheless, a partial and imperfect knowledge of physical reality at present does not mean we are incapable of furthering that knowledge.

This leaves the political question of how to distinguish (beforehand, with imperfect knowledge) a loser from a troubled entity worth saving.

Unfortunately, we live in an uncertain world with imperfect knowledge.

Conversely, act utilitarianism was criticized for not allowing for a 'human element' in its calculations, i.e. it is sometimes too difficult (or impossible) for an ordinary person with imperfect knowledge to calculate the action of maximal utility.

This is justified by an appeal to our "always" imperfect knowledge of nature (e.g. see Cain 1989).