"The numbers behind them tend to be easy to get, imprecise and arbitrary," says Pope.
IN the science of attention-getting, imprecise though it may be, there are two schools of thought: the flashy (blinking neon lights, plunging necklines, Damien Hirst) and the ferociously minimalistic (an "Open" sign, a string of pearls, Jasper Johns).
In addition to some slipping and sliding by spectators, a soft golf course generally results in lower scores, because players can get away with imprecise shots that might punish them on a faster course.
The city of Salina bans pit bulls, and they've got an expansive, imprecise list of dogs that fall under that definition, including Staffordshire bull terriers, American Staffordshire terriers, American pit bull terriers, and "any other breed commonly known as Pit Bull, Pit Bull Dog, or Pit Bull Terrier".
Both gene expression-wise and with regards to prognosis approximately two-thirds of G2-tumors are similar to the low grade group whereas about one third resemble the high grade group [ 7, 8], which means that 40-50% of breast cancer patients currently get an unnecessarily imprecise estimate of their risk of recurrence.
Isadora Duncan's soft-armed prance, Mary Wigman's Hexentanz and Pina Bausch's crash against the chairs in Café Müller become the instructions for looping reconstructions on stage; imprecise, hurried, endless, getting worse from tiredness rather than improving with practice.
Although gay people – myself included – often pride themselves on their "gaydar", their ability to "spot" another gay person, it's a very imprecise instrument and getting more so all the time.
In conflict zones, getting hold of good information can be a mucky, imprecise business.
But there is no need to get bogged down in imprecise debates about what constitutes a massacre.
In the first place, the phrase is imprecise; Mr. Nixon got Watergate behind him and us all right, though not in the way some had expected.
