In this diplomat's appraisal, Mr. Fayyad appeared to be recruiting sidelined Palestinian institutions -- the budget, the legislature -- for wide-ranging reform, using the budget proposal to lend precision to popular but rather amorphous ideas for change.
Mr. Christopher described his two-and-a-half-hour meeting with Mr. Assad as "good and productive". He said Mr. Assad favored "an early cease-fire" that would lead to talks "to reaffirm" the 1993 understandings, but written down this time, "to strengthen it" and lend precision.
A combined molecular and biogeographical approach through well-replicated field studies, if applied to a larger pool of invasive species from different geographical regions, could potentially lend unprecedented precision to our understanding of the dynamics of invasive plant-AMF interactions.
A larger sample size may lend more precision to the odds ratios for the relationship between smoking and preeclampsia within each group.
Getting this right lends polish and precision to our prose; missteps make our writing seem slipshod.
The combination of horsepower and "champagne" doesn't lend itself to precision driving, and in a very slurry way, things are completely out of control.
It is concluded that auditory inspection time for spatial location is able to be assessed rapidly, reliably, and with high precision, and lends support to the role of processing speed differences as basic to differences in intelligence.
Hence multiplying what we would pay to reduce the risk of death by the reduction in risk lends an apparent mathematical precision to the outcome of the calculation — the supposed value of a human life — that our intuitive responses to the questions cannot support.
We do this separately for every time channel and get consistent location estimates from gate to gate, which lends credence to their precision.
Unlike his contemporaries James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent, and William Merritt Chase, popular society portraitists, Eakins painted his subjects with uncompromising realism and meticulous precision, which lent them a somber, aged, sometimes unflattering, aspect.
When lending money, bankers generally demand precision.
