Sentence examples for nebulous borders from inspiring English sources

The foundation awards the Templeton Prize, one of the world's richest, and sponsors conferences and studies reflecting the founder's passionate interest in "progress in religion" and "research or discoveries" on the nebulous borders of science and religion.

Even its borders are nebulous and ever-shifting.

However, musicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez considers the difference between noise and music nebulous, explaining that "The border between music and noise is always culturally defined which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus .

Those cases were contained; the borders of finance are more nebulous.

The enemy is more nebulous and the battlefield is everywhere — in border towns like Tijuana, regional capitals like Culiacán and in the metropolis of Mexico City, where Mr. Calderón gathers with his national security staff every morning in his wooded compound ringed by soldiers to strategize and count the previous day's dead.

Ebola now functions in popular discourse as a not-so-subtle, almost completely rhetorical stand-in for any combination of "African-ness", "blackness", "foreign-ness" and "infestation" – a nebulous but powerful threat, poised to ruin the perceived purity of western borders and bodies.

Venezuela and Ecuador assailed Colombia as having violated Ecuador's sovereignty, cut diplomatic ties and sent troops to the Colombian border in a show of force, effectively defending the FARC's nebulous operations in their countries.

At this point the story becomes nebulous, as the mechanism(s) by which micellar cholesterol is absorbed through the brush border membranes independent of bile salt uptake remains a mystery.

Fairness is more nebulous.

"It was a nebulous cloud".

He is enthusiastic but nebulous.