A heart beating at its maximum possible rate may be inefficient, Dr. Tanaka explained.
It may be inefficient in its allocation of capital, but it is quite stable.
It may be inefficient, dirty and cruel, but there is no denying that cooked animal flesh tastes good.
Chinese property investment may be inefficient, but it is sustained by a huge, growing and sustainable demand for new housing.
The NHS may be inefficient in many ways and cost more than it should, but its real assets are its staff.
Fourth, particularly in the development context, innovation may be inefficient and represent poor value for money because it risks reinventing the wheel.
The state telecoms monopoly may be inefficient, but its charges are low; he fears that private telecoms firms will be poorly regulated.
The formalities of the adversarial legal system may be inefficient, and the shabby ambience of an urban courthouse may not reflect our esteem for the rule of law.
And though it may be inefficient, it is no more so than the other parts of America's higgledy-piggledy health-care system.
Finally, Mr. Coleman says, with a high compression ratio combustion is efficient under a wide range of conditions, including low-speed, high-load situations, where turbocharged engines may be inefficient.
Thus, using them to discover rules based on minimum single constraints may be inefficient.
