Sentence examples for ill-defined concepts from inspiring English sources

The result is that ill-defined concepts like "radicalisation" and "extremism" are applied in a circular and highly racialised manner.

Unfortunately, those answers rely on two ill-defined concepts ("future cash flows" and "appropriate rate"), a faulty analogy, and a repudiation of statistics.

Current modelling approaches often purport to be based on a strong theoretical underpinning but, in fact, contain many ill-defined concepts or even contradictions leading to potential misinterpretation.

Gavin Evans's criticisms of attempts to demonstrate a robust association between surrogate measures of ill-defined concepts ("race" and "intelligence") are to the point (The unwelcome return of 'race science', The long read, 2 March).

ISDS allows corporations to directly challenge almost any law or regulation based on ill-defined concepts such as "fair and equitable treatment".

[Interviewee 16] Discrepancies between participants' opinions and the official guidelines related not only to the purpose of assessment but also to how a certain task was best assessed, especially if it entailed more elusive or ill-defined concepts like professional behavior and communication.

The Islamic Republic was a hurried and ill-defined concept.

"Jewishness" is an ill-defined concept, coterminous with neither "Judaism" nor "Jews".

But it also sheds light on that ill-defined concept that the administration refuses to call the Obama Doctrine.

In the twilight of their administrations, mayors typically focus on an ill-defined concept called their Legacy.

He was the ethereal, ill-defined concept of "the West Ham way" made flesh – a nutmeg incarnate, a rabona in a flat-peak cap.