Sentence examples for incomplete gauges from inspiring English sources

The scandal is also a reminder that profitability or customer losses are incomplete gauges of the damage financial fraud wreaks.

Even more impressive is China, where labour productivity has risen by 7-8%.The snag is that labour productivity is an incomplete gauge of efficiency.

But, for various reasons, some of which John Cassidy detailed in a post last year, data on productivity is an incomplete, and possibly inaccurate, gauge of innovation).

(Piketty writes that the "US economy was much more innovative in 1950-1970 than in 1990-2010, to judge by the fact that productivity growth was nearly twice as high in the former period as in the latter". But, for various reasons, some of which John Cassidy detailed in a post last year, data on productivity is an incomplete, and possibly inaccurate, gauge of innovation).

However, it is difficult to quantify this with high statistical certainty because of the reduced spatial coverage in tide gauge sites, and hence incomplete records, especially prior to the 1960s.

Our study shows that industry press releases are generally good at providing basic study details, but may provide incomplete information needed for a reader to gauge a study's clinical implications.

Moreover, because the knowledge of the various dinosaur groups is somewhat incomplete, the duration of any particular dinosaur can be gauged only approximately usually by stratigraphic boundaries and presumed "first" and "last" occurrences.

With the vessel required to be destroyed in accordance with the terms of the treaty, the incomplete Tosa was then subjected to various tests to gauge the effect of Japanese weaponry before being scuttled on 9 February 1925.

For example, that social-choice theory (how to gauge a society's welfare from that of its members) permits good-enough, albeit incomplete, social comparisons.

In clinical practice, many factors (i.e., probe gauge, tip length, temperature achieved, heating duration, heat-sink effect of nearby blood vessels, and incomplete fusion of RFA lesions between prongs of expandable electrodes or surgical clips near the tumor) may alter this ideal geometrical shape producing an irregularly sized, distorted, or incomplete area of necrosis.

The theory of gauge symmetry has been very successful in describing the known fundamental forces; however this theory is obviously incomplete because it requires all particles to be massless.