Sentence examples for an imperfect one from inspiring English sources

Uber is an example – albeit an imperfect one – of a technology that has had unintentional effects on entrenched and sometimes personalized discrimination: the inability of many African-Americans to flag down a taxi in cities.

Incidentally, that Macy's analogy is an imperfect one.

And yet, as my father knew, a perfect shelving system is also inherently an imperfect one.

But, he said, he was just fulfilling his role as a "disrupter," if an imperfect one.

The government argues that Niger is a democracy, if an imperfect one, with peaceful means of redressing grievances.

Of course, carnival's set-up is an imperfect one, and there will always be a few idiots who pee (or worse) in someone's front garden.

First, our project uses valuation as a filter (an admittedly imperfect one) to identify and learn from the fastest-scaling tech companies of our time.

It pointed to many successes — it was once a teaching hospital for the nearby Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science and featured a respected neurosurgery unit — and in a neighborhood riddled with gang violence and myriad health problems common to poor urban areas, it was a safety net, though an increasingly imperfect one, for the poor and uninsured.

Lou Reed will be on Rob Howley's playlist when he announces his squad tomorrow for the opening match of Wales's defence of their Six Nations crown but it will be a painfully imperfect one chosen by the interim coach with the focus likely to be on those absent from the fixture against Ireland two weeks on Saturday.

But the analogy is a very imperfect one: there was substantial public enthusiasm for the first war and almost none for the second.

Indeed, this paper is an attempt, however imperfect one, to do just that.