Sentence examples for imprecise word from inspiring English sources

"Procedure" is a dull, imprecise word, warning us to rewrite.

Role players An imprecise word, because all players have a role.

But for MacCulloch, "science is a very imprecise word", at its core exhibiting "no clash of purpose or intention with religion".

Collusion is an imprecise word, but it does seem close to certain that his son Donald, Jr., and several people who worked for him colluded with people close to the Kremlin; it is up to prosecutors and then the courts to figure out if this was illegal or merely deceitful.

In his younger days, he was so well known for his temper — lateness, casual dress and the unacceptably imprecise word "indicate" would all set him off — that before hearings one prominent defense lawyer used to take a Valium, which he called "the Judge Brown pill".

I realize that "droves" is an imprecise word and, moreover, that out-migration from a dot-com boomtown such as San Francisco was to be expected during an economic bust.

5) Beginning with the discussion of Figure 5, the manuscript is very difficult to follow due to imprecise wording and obscure terminology.

Although billed as a narrow attack on one particular late-term abortion procedure, the measure's imprecise wording would criminalize the use of the safest and most common pre-viability abortion method used after the first trimester, namely dilation and evacuation.

TIMOTHY EGAN The idea that an armed citizenry is the best assurance of freedom is deeply embedded in American thought, starting with the Second Amendment and those maddeningly imprecise words: "A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed".

Judges in New York and Nebraska have barred the administration from enforcing the abortion law in response to suits brought by groups of doctors, who have argued, correctly, that the ban should be struck down because of imprecise wording and the lack of an exception to protect a woman's health.

It follows that the fact that most of our participants had assigned a proxy cannot be seen as a reliable way of overcoming the flaws of imprecise wording.