Sentence examples for imprecise way from inspiring English sources

But looking at lost productivity seems like an imprecise way to measure the toll.

Yet 1994 seems an imprecise way to predict how this contest will play out.

The court was using the concept of privacy as an imprecise way of establishing the right to sexual autonomy.

Putting it in tap water, they say, is an imprecise way of distributing fluoride; how much fluoride a person gets depends on body weight and water consumed.

Utopia is often spoken of in a general, imprecise way, to characterize any conception of the state that is considered an unrealizable ideal.

Counting the number of private actions brought in connection with a Form S-8 registration is admittedly an imprecise way to gauge whether Securities Act registration of compensatory benefit transactions is providing any investor protection.

"Everyone talked about this rule, but in very imprecise ways," he said.

None stirred the kind of wild response that Mr. Dean did in 2003, but, as several Democrats noted, the reaction from this crowd of party insiders may be one of the most imprecise ways of measuring who is most likely to win the Democratic presidential nomination.

The Administration has engaged in public discussion of the legality of targeted killing, even of citizens, but in cryptic and imprecise ways generally without citing to any statute or court decision that justifies its conclusions.

She charged that the Obama administration "has engaged in public discussion of the legality of targeted killing, even of citizens, but in cryptic and imprecise ways, generally without citing to any statute or court decision that justifies its conclusions".

However, use of secondary data sources for health services research has been criticized due to problems with miscoding of data, missing data, and coding of services or procedures in clinically imprecise ways [ 80].