Sentence examples for poor instruments from inspiring English sources
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).
But high achievers usually work above grade level, so the state tests are very poor instruments for measuring how well top students are learning.
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.
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).
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.
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.
The bottom line is that "tariffs are a very poor instrument for punishing China for any unfair trading practices," write Dollar and Wang.
A new paper from David Dollar and Zhi Wang of the Brookings Institution makes the case that ignoring the reality, as Trump's trade policies do, is tantamount to "shooting oneself in the foot". Tariffs are a very poor instrument for punishing China for any unfair trading practices.
