"Where's Luciana's husband?" I asked her adviser, looking round for someone who might approximate to the male equivalent of a politician's wife.
Roughly approximate to the American immigration and frontier narrative, the Australian version also shaped national identity -- Australians view themselves as hard-knock trailblazers.
Ottoman Iraq was roughly approximate to the Arabian Iraq of the preceding era, though still without clearly defined borders.
Nevertheless, he concedes that sometimes sleep, fever, or madness can produce ideas that approximate to the force of impressions, and some impressions can approach the weakness of ideas.
From this point of view, propaganda should not approximate to the truth as closely as possible: on the contrary it should do as much violence to it as possible.
In a review written in the January , 1927 issue of The Criterion, he claimed that all good detective fiction "tends to return and approximate to the practice of Wilkie Collins".
Chemotherapy patients are therefore obliged to deploy a limited repertoire of familiar but hopelessly inadequate substitutes; words that can only approximate to the experience, but fail to convey anything of its true essence.
But geneticists are now improving their dating methods, even though the dates are still very approximate, to the point that they can begin to correlate their findings with the archaeologists'.
To approximate to the real world, your entire digital identity could be stored in a wallet.
The correlation matrix is approximate to the unit matrix.
The reconstructed quality score is expected to well approximate to the "ground truth" quality score.
