Sentence examples for calibrate everything from inspiring English sources

But unless the state can calibrate everything properly in advance (a Solomonic task), its contractors may face perverse or inadequate incentives for the life of the agreement.The tube experience provides ample warning of some of the hazards facing the military as it tries to wrap up the aerial refuelling contract.

While these discussions were often framed in biologic and clinical terms, in operational terms, the objective was to assess probabilities of case recognition, and in epidemiologic terms, the objective was to determine probabilities of transmission with various sorts of contact, to define "contact," and when possible, to calibrate everything to agreed-upon data in an agreed-upon way.

"Super-salaries", as Piketty calls them, thus have almost nothing to do with carefully calibrated performance and everything to do with the attempts of CEOs and boards to keep up with each other in a status race substantially influenced by social and psychological rather than economic concerns.

Though HDTVs require a little more effort and interaction to get things working right than older TVs ever did, the ultimate payoff is worth it once you get everything calibrated properly, you'll almost certainly agree.

In fact, in the years since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, criminal background checks calibrated to detect everything from arrests on dismissed or expunged charges to misdemeanor and felony convictions have become an increasingly common part of the job application process.

Everything was spot on.

I mean, how much oxygen they suck up, everything is calibrated.

"With molecular cuisine and sous vide, everything is calibrated to the nanosecond," he said.

He had meticulously calibrated standards for virtually everything, as if (I often resentfully thought, when I was young) life were an equation and all you had to do was work out the variables: children, marriage, friendships.

There are so many variables on the road compared to the track where everything can be calibrated.

But they are steely within, built on the steely, interlocking repetitions of post-punk minimalism: syncopations that aren't quite funk, guitar parts in a dissonant mesh, everything working at calibrated cross-purposes.