Sentence examples for could be systematically from inspiring English sources

The polls could be systematically wrong — although the most likely sources of systematic error are undercounting of cell-phone-onlys and Latinos, both of which would suggest that Obama's position is stronger, not weaker, than the polls say.

As Berlinski shows, Leibniz was aware of the idea's power in the 17th century when he proposed his "calculus of reason," a system of symbols, he dreamed, that could be systematically manipulated to answer any question.

Then it was discovered that a ship's roll and pitch could be systematically compensated for, so that each shot could be fired at the same angle to the sea and reach almost exactly the same range.

The FiveThirtyEight forecast explicitly accounts for the possibility that the polls are biased toward Mr. Obama — but it also accounts for the chance that the polls could be systematically biased against him.

A precise count is difficult, not only because of the problem of distinguishing dialects from languages but because many speech varieties became extinct before they could be systematically recorded, and they are known if at all from fragmentary and badly transcribed missionary word lists.

It is generally agreed that the most outstanding achievement of linguistic scholarship in the 19th century was the development of the comparative method, which comprised a set of principles whereby languages could be systematically compared with respect to their sound systems, grammatical structure, and vocabulary and shown to be "genealogically" related.

Conference abstracts and other unpublished articles were excluded, as these could not be systematically reviewed and data could not be verified.

In particular, it could help produce CD4-based CFR estimates for tuberculosis HIV, which, until now, could not be systematically determined from tuberculosis mortality data alone.

While trends could be identified, the optimal dose of exercise that is needed to produce hypoalgesia could not be systematically determined with the amount of data available.

This clinical data, which would include both healthy subjects and patients with widely varying conditions, could then be systematically "mined" to identify clusters of patients with similar changes in the brain.

In at least one site, some villagers had received payment for facilitating illegal hunting, though such activities could not be systematically researched through household survey.