Sentence examples for imprecise that from inspiring English sources

Those dissenting from today's ruling, led by Justice David H. Souter, contended that the decision was so imprecise that it invited discriminatory redistricting efforts by lawmakers who did not have the interests of minority voters at heart.

That approval was rescinded by the Bush administration, but the investigation found that the bureau's standards for recognition were so imprecise that they left the door open to undue influence by casino investors.

One critic or another said the work relied on data from unrepresentative plantations, that the mathematics were imprecise, that it focused on the number of slaves who had been whipped rather than the frequency of the whipping, and that it failed to address the psychological effect of whipping on other slaves.

This was so imprecise that it could easily be rebutted, and Gorsuch gave Senator Dianne Feinstein a list of cases in which he had taken the little guy's side: for a woman who had been raped by college football players; for Colorado residents who argued that their environment had been contaminated by a nuclear plant, for the Ute Indian tribe in a jurisdictional dispute with a Utah town.

This means that the estimates were so imprecise that even effects greater than 20% would rarely have yielded statistically significant results.

Furthermore, in many cases, the point estimates tend to be close to 0. However, the estimates are sufficiently imprecise that we cannot rule out the possibility that the program had substantial effects on assault or stealing.

Interestingly, Browder says he opposes western sanctions on ordinary Russians, regarding them as an imprecise tool that punishes the wrong people.

Parliamentary questions to the Department for Communities and Local Government by Paul Goodman MP only yielded out-of-date and imprecise data that didn't even say how much each recipient got.

The assessment of threats, the effort by government analysts to forecast the behavior of unseen enemies, even unknown ones, is at best an imprecise art that depends largely on the quality of the intelligence from which it is drawn.

The controversy centers on so-called specialty drugs, a somewhat imprecise term that generally encompasses products that can cost tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.

In addition to some slipping and sliding by spectators, a soft golf course generally results in lower scores, because players can get away with imprecise shots that might punish them on a faster course.