Sentence examples for imprecise to use from inspiring English sources

In a general way, those social arrangements resemble those found in medieval Europe, but it would be imprecise to use a term such as feudalism to characterize Funan and its successor states.

American and Iraqi military officers also questioned the wisdom of purchasing tens of millions of dollars of nonmilitary crowd control gear — batons, stun guns and plexiglass shields — usually used by police forces, and $76 million worth of mortar systems, which are too imprecise to use against guerrillas.

Wallison says it's unacceptable, politically motivated, and imprecise to use the phrase "Wall Street" as if it referred to the controlling financial interests of the United States.

Even so, such an approach can swing wildly, making fair value a imprecise metric for regulators to use.

To efficiency measure in real-life applications of data envelopment analysis (DEA) model, the inputs and outputs data are sometimes imprecise, and we need to use the weight restrictions in order to incorporate management's views.

Yet what if house insurers were now to use such imprecise material to calculate their premiums?

To use an imprecise analogy, if swallowing an entire bottle of aspirin at one sitting could kill you, consuming it over a few days might merely make you sick.

Is it better for a patient with diabetes to use an imprecise system based on population averages, or a personalized system with proper safeguards?

The new touchpad on the guitar controller was found to be imprecise to make it difficult to use during difficult song sections and would sometimes fail to register taps or slides; some of these issues were attributed to initial manufacturing problems.

* Revolutionism--an imprecise doctrine used to justify wholesale, rather than gradual, change in the Ottoman system Ataturk inherited.

"The boundary between avoidance and [unlawful] evasion is simply too imprecise to be of any practical use in the management of taxpayers' affairs," he said.