Edison conceived of his cylinder as a tool for business communication: it would replace the costly, imperfect practice of stenography, and would have the added virtue of preserving in perpetuity the voices of the deceased.
In some offices, dictation is automated into reports through voice recognition software, but this is an imperfect practice and often requires additional double-checking by a real human.
My "just in time" meeting with Chipchase required little in the way of advance planning and was more efficient than the oft-imperfect practice of designating a specific time and a place to rendezvous.
Practice makes perfect, or in this case - imperfect, so practice until you can limp without hesitation or appearing too obvious!
However imperfect in practice, deterring aggression and crimes against humanity must remain the primary goal.
However, since the frequency separation between subcarriers is imperfect in practice, a signal may spill over adjacent subcarriers, i.e., a subcarrier suffers from so-called 'spectral leakage' [28].
The Obamacare birth control mandate, which promises access to FDA-approved contraceptives at no charge from the pharmacy or doctor's office, is imperfect in practice, the survey shows.
Integration of HIV testing in ANC is essential in the overall PMTCT strategy; however, in Colombia, this integration has been imperfect in practice.
Some agriculture experts say that cross-pollination of biotech corn and seed corn, as well as poor and imperfect grain-handling practices, have thoroughly scrambled crops in a global food chain that for decades shipped bulk supplies of largely undifferentiated products.
Few of his backstage dancers suggest that practice makes perfect; many of them are imperfect and not practicing.
