Sentence examples for poor instrument from inspiring English sources

Torture is a poor instrument to produce reliable information.

Arming local factions proved a poor instrument for establishing central control.

There is an emerging view that the so-called surface warming slowdown was caused from poor instrument coverage around the globe, volcanic eruptions, and a multi-year oscillation in the oceans.

What biologists miss, on the other hand, is that a Geiger counter is a poor instrument with which to detect potassium-40 in bananas (or in people, for that matter).

For the last category, Data Rejected (colored in grey), the required data were inadequate for analysis due to poor instrument practice, exhibited extremely poor S/N or contained indiscernible artefacts or impurities, etc.

Logical errors include several types of coding inconsistencies that can result from poor assessment practices, poor instrument design, assessor fatigue, systematic biases, or random error.

But high achievers usually work above grade level, so the state tests are very poor instruments for measuring how well top students are learning.

After all, other ways of understanding Abstract Expressionist paintings were once possible, for images are highly malleable (one of the reasons they make poor instruments for propaganda).

Vertical, radial, and transverse components were quite coherent over the aperture of the array (> 100 m), indicating that the transverse motion of the compressional wave is a property of relatively large (106m3) volumes of rock, and not just an anomaly caused by a malfunctioning instrument, poor instrument-rock coupling, or outcrop-scale effects.

The test confirmed that the Leaf has poor instruments, but the test also found significant loss of range in some cars reflecting battery capacity loss.

The grouping of port access in SPA procedures, however, raises a number of challenges, including tunnel vision due to the in-line arrangement of instruments, poor triangulation of instruments, requiring crossing of instruments to obtain proper retraction, and increased risk of instrument collision due to the close proximity to other surgical devices.