Sentence examples for flawed instrument from inspiring English sources

Critics of reason, from Haidt to conservative intellectuals like Burke and Oakeshott, see reason as an inherently flawed instrument.

Despite this, these critics tend to view the Protocol as a valuable, if flawed, instrument for realizing women's rights.

"G.D.P. is a flawed instrument of how well we're doing, but we're stuck not having an index of well-being".

Kyoto is a flawed instrument, and the Europeans were foolishly resisting various trading mechanisms that would ease the costs of the treaty without undercutting its objectives.

But she spent her career doing battle with a flawed instrument whose inherent problems she never quite solved, and anyone who takes her as a model is asking for trouble.

Like Stockman, Stephanopoulos suggested that his boss was the flawed instrument of grand ideals: "I came to see how Clinton's shamelessness is a key to his political success, how his capacity for denial is tied to the optimism that is his greatest political strength".

Nested in this hard truth is that much of accountability-based education reform depends on high-stakes standardized testing, which is itself a deeply flawed and biased instrument.

Perhaps most sane readers would give up on a series as flawed as The Mortal Instruments, but my obsessive compulsive finish-every-series-you-start-disorder forced me to continue.

However, the methodological quality of the testing procedures for all instruments was flawed, when considering the methodological criteria applied in this review.

If, as one of the experts consulted by New Haven suggested, the city had proceeded with the promotions after the 2003 test results were certified, it could have reviewed the test prospectively if it believed the instrument to be flawed, or it could have considered alternatives that had less disparate impact.

Users of these faulty instruments then fudge this flawed data.