Sentence examples for imprecise reference from inspiring English sources

The imprecise reference was repeated in an accompanying picture caption.

Correction: June 18 , 2000 Sunday A front-page article on June 4 about the quandary faced by American companies over genetically altered food included an industry analyst's imprecise reference to an ingredient in Heinz ketchup.

Correction: May 24, 2000, Wednesday An article yesterday about the Republican primary in New Jersey for the Fifth District seat held by Representative Marge Roukema omitted clarification for an imprecise reference by her opponent, E. Scott Garrett.

The imprecise reference also appeared in some editions on Tuesday in the Appraisal column, about dissension in a Mormon congregation in Harlem over plans to sell church property to a developer.

An article on Monday about Superheroes Anonymous, a group of volunteers who gathered near Times Square to publicize their efforts to make their communities cleaner and safer, included an imprecise reference from one participant, Chaim Lazaros, who spoke at the event.

Correction: November 15, 2004, Monday An article on Thursday about the creation of a task force to study ways to improve the New York City Board of Elections included an imprecise reference from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to the board's executive director, John Ravitz.

The comments were verified and more imprecise references were found by The Times as it reviewed his background.

The verdict in the second case, hundreds of pages long and wormy with what outside researchers say are gaps in logic and imprecise references to the criminal code, has been an embarrassment for the Russian judiciary, but until now no higher court has challenged it.

Some imprecise references to vegetation were made at the beginning of nineteenth century by travellers such as the foreigners Azara, Darwin and Saint Hilaire, and by criollos such as Father Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga.

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction: Correction: April 17, 2010 An article on Thursday about the scheduled expiration of tax cuts for wealthier taxpayers included several imprecise or incorrect references.

How can a society possibly provide meaningful metering and feedback of outcomes to the controller when the references are imprecise to begin with, the efficacy of the actuators may vary across the types of institutions and over time, the sources of disturbances in the system are variegated, and metering may be inconsistent and unreliable?