Even when embodied imperfectly, they work.
Absent impeachment-worthy evidence that he engaged in unlawful collusion and obstruction, the remedy for Trump is, and probably always was, the system's checks and balances, which seem to be working — imperfectly but fairly well, judging by the Republican defeat in 2018 and some 63 federal court rulings blocking his policies.
That landmark 1986 ruling, Batson v. Kentucky, has been working imperfectly, defense lawyers say, because the court has not yet made clear how trial judges are to evaluate a prosecutor's assertion that the removal of a substantial number of black prospective jurors was unrelated to race.
If you're a perfectionist, plan on doing the first version of whatever you're working on imperfectly.
But the drawbridge works imperfectly.
Jabari, Benn argued, was in effect Israel's point man in a money-for-truce exchange that worked imperfectly.
However imperfectly, desegregation has worked far more successfully here than it has in the big cities of the East.
The OPEC spigot on member countries' output is the main instrument for controlling prices and wielding the cartel's power, but it works imperfectly.
The central conclusion from this paper is that technology-specific RES-E support schemes may generate significant economic benefits, particularly if technology markets work imperfectly and in second-best policy settings with additional non-internalized market failures.
As time goes on and the competition in the sphere of website and software development is becoming more and more heated, the tolerance of users towards websites and applications that work imperfectly is getting weaker and weaker.
One of the world's great economists - he won the Nobel Prize in 2001 for his elegant demonstrations that markets necessarily work imperfectly, on any reasonable assumption that market participants are not all knowledgeable - he is also not afraid to get his hands dirty in the world of policy-making.
