Sentence examples for precise problem from inspiring English sources

Victoria's example shows how so much change can be down to small, practical solutions that address a precise problem.

Your recent article on elderly living options [ "More Elderly Living Options, at a Price," Oct. 8] noted the precise problem facing our elderly -- the high cost of housing.

But when agency inspectors went to Boston Scientific in mid-2005, they could find no evidence that the device maker was adequately tracking reports from doctors about that precise problem, a warning issued last year by the agency shows.

Blair Hankey, Brussels Roger Cohen's discussion of Afghanistan with David Miliband, the British foreign secretary, revealed the precise problem: "Whatever Afghan government emerges has to be 'credible,' where Hamid Karzai's administration has not been".

"We ran into this precise problem in August, when we had 400 megawatts of power in Maine and no way of getting it to that part of Connecticut," Mr. Poirot said.

And as identifying the precise problem, and its origin, and how to solve it, has lengthened the likely closure from "a few weeks" to "a few months" to "a matter of months - hopefully", so the structure has started to become a British symbol of a more traditional sort: a big project running late.

When this rough distinction between derivation and inflection is made more precise, problems occur.

So, knowing the precise problems of the patient the receptionist is able to add the presumable time needs for the scheduled appointment.

Or, to be more precise, the problem was the financial instruments that enabled – and, in some ways, forced – financiers to lend money to people who couldn't pay it back, thus causing the crash.

Dr. Francis Collins, head of the publicly funded Human Genome Project, hazarded a guess that within the next decade there will be tests to tell people what genetically influenced diseases, such as diabetes and heart disease, they are at increased risk for, and that in 15 to 20 years drugs will be targeted on the precise molecular problem contributing to, say, cancer or mental illness.

What I had not realised, but Greif's closely argued book makes clear, was that this constellation of reference points – we can add writers as disparate as Hannah Arendt, Vance Packard and Jacques Maritain – described a historically precise philosophical problem, and also a fashion: a craze that had travelled from Europe at mid century to postwar America and thence even to conservative Ireland.