Sentence examples for imperfect that from inspiring English sources

The IRA have made a gesture, and it is a gesture, however imperfect, that can be used to dissolve the decommissioning impasse.

"Leakers and whistleblowers, together with the investigative journalists they inform, are a critically important pressure valve, however imperfect, that protect us from an overreaching national security establishment that uses the justifiable needs of operational secrecy to avoid scrutiny for its errors of judgment, incompetence, or malfeasance.

It is the social justice ethos, however imperfect, that Funder wants for her children.

Moreover, some Iranian Kurds have been transfixed by the image of autonomy, no matter how imperfect, that they see on the other side of the Iraqi border.

"Our opponent though is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country," Palin said at a fundraiser in Denver on Saturday.

Put this way, reasonable people might disagree on where balances should be struck and lines should be drawn, and we rely on the political process to find compromises, however imperfect, that we can all live with.

I don't know what it is about us as imperfect humans that is so desperate to seek pure perfection from imperfect humans.

In practice, pathogens are diverse, and vaccines usually provide imperfect protection that differs from that induced by natural infection.

Imperfect metrics that, as abstractions, may be difficult to get right.

In reality, we make decisions in imperfect conditions that prevent us from thinking things through.

In an imperfect world, that seems to be the most we can hope for.