Sentence examples for imperfect guide from inspiring English sources
History is an imperfect guide.
The western past is doubtless an imperfect guide to the future of the Arab world.
The immediate past is, of course, a highly imperfect guide to the future.
And thus the past can serve only as an imperfect guide to the troubles of the present.
Mr Soames's hopelessly English, almost pathological self-deprecation makes him an imperfect guide to his own subsequent success.
The models these companies created differed from peril to peril, but they all had one thing in common: they accepted that the past was an imperfect guide to the future.
They're imperfect guides, but they might inspire him on the uncharted course of peace.
The drawback is that it makes them imperfect guides to integration.
From hindsight and more detailed local knowledge, it seems that the maps would have been useful but imperfect guides to obtaining adequate supplies of drinking water.
It is clear that use of prognostic and predictive information obtained from the initial diagnosis of breast cancer and resection of the primary tumor may be imperfect in guiding treatment of metastatic disease.
ER immunohistochemistry is a widely available but imperfect test for guiding likely clinical response to tamoxifen treatment.
