Sentence examples for inexact term from inspiring English sources

The inexact term gestures toward a hardly communicable feeling, which we enjoy as we would a melancholy song that is beautiful and true.

Drugs that combat anxiety have been called tranquilizers, an inexact term in that they do not tranquilize as much as reduce anxiety and enable dysfunctional patients to cope more effectively with life's vicissitudes and lead more rewarding lives.

"Hippie" is an inexact term that has many definitions depending on the perspective -- and bias -- of the definer.

The more I say partial-birth abortions are an inexact term rejected by the American Congress of OB/GYN, the more the anti-choice movement doubles down.

The sweeping and inexact terms of the ordinance disclose the threat to freedom of speech inherent in its existence.

Thornhill held that a statute against picketing was too broad, inexact, and imprecise to be enforceable, and Carlson held, 310 U.S., at 112, 60 S.Ct. at 749, 'The sweeping and inexact terms of the ordinance disclose the threat to freedom of speech inherent in its existence.' This principle of Thornhill and Carlson has been uniformly followed.

Typically, use of the term "high dose" reflects a consideration of a Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD) or a Maximum Feasible Dose (MFD), inexact terms applied to the design of nonclinical studies conducted to support human clinical trials for experimental new drugs.

While clinically inexact, the term is apt, said Dr. Nancy Giles, a psychologist in New York and the mother of three adult children.

It is a decades-old term, of inexact origin, for the team employee whose assignment it was to go to a player's training camp dormitory room, knock on the door and say: "The coach wants to see you.

As a rule, the more inexact or misleading the term, the more profound the effect.

(The terms are inexact; sometimes goats or calves provided the raw material). Although animal hides could be shaved into sheets of amazing thinness, they were expensive, did not take ink well and were generally too brittle to pass through a press.