Sentence examples for at best imprecise from inspiring English sources

Late in life he gave a couple of interviews, "at best imprecise about the facts," as Wilson politely puts it.

Flying the flag Reprints Related topics Conservative Party (Britain Englandd Alan Milburn Europe Western EuropeMore important, as senior doctors and managers have persistently pointed out, the political significance of waiting lists is much greater than their clinical importance: as a measure of the NHS's efficiency and success, waiting lists are at best imprecise and at worst actually damaging.

(Mea culpa: using city figures from 1999, the last year with reliable data, this column referred the other day to an estimated 13,000 millionaires in the five boroughs. The wording was at best imprecise, as several readers pointed out. That number referred to individuals or families earning a million dollars or more a year. No doubt, more than 13,000 New Yorkers are worth over a million).

Readouts that define the physiological distributions of drugs in tissues are an unmet challenge and at best imprecise.

Readouts that define the physiological distributions of drugs in tissues are an unmet challenge and at best imprecise, but are needed in order to understand both the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties associated with efficacy.

Patent award figures are, at best, an imprecise measurement, said Daniel Weiss, the president of the New York Society of Professional Inventors, based in Farmingdale.

The assessment of threats, the effort by government analysts to forecast the behavior of unseen enemies, even unknown ones, is at best an imprecise art that depends largely on the quality of the intelligence from which it is drawn.

The result has in many cases been fantastically successful: Coca-Cola has created a drink that is instantly recognised and even has emotional resonance.Yet branding is, at best, an imprecise art.

The amount of 5-HT and its metabolites in the CSF are, at best, an imprecise indicator of brain serotonergic neuronal activity (synthesis).

But land certificates are imprecise at best, and more than half of rural households lack documentation — leaving possession dependent upon villagers' knowledge and officialdom's whims.

Where they see in Clinton a continuation of a status quo and experience of the region, Trump's approach to foreign policy is seen as wayward, imprecise at best, and contradictory.