Sentence examples for proved imperfect from inspiring English sources

Referees now use replay to review flagrant-foul calls in certain situations, but even that has proved imperfect.

The annona, set up by Septimius Severus, had proved imperfect, and Diocletian now reformed it through the jugatio-capitatio system: henceforth, the land tax, paid in kind by all landowners, would be calculated by the assessment of fiscal units based on extent and quality of land, type of crops grown, number of settlers and cattle, and amount of equipment.

Your choice will prove imperfect.

This proved an imperfect fit for the MP for Putney, in south-west London, given her opposition to a third runway at Heathrow.

Basing depreciation on historical cost rather than on probable replacement cost and on arbitrary rules rather than on actual use has been practiced to establish definite tax liability and to standardize audits of accounts; in times of shifting price levels, however, such bases for measuring depreciation have proved especially imperfect.

Historically, the problem of turning body movement into a measurable number of steps has proved an imperfect science.

Intelligence and technology regularly prove themselves imperfect or worse, which means that the deaths of innocents are inevitable.

This surveillance, although imperfect, proved critical in tracking rabies spread.

On the Sony recording, Levit is almost unsettlingly poised and controlled; live, he proved more impulsive and imperfect.

Now that Ms. Bekdache's house, a six-bedroom villa with an entertainment room and a creative workspace, is almost finished, she says she should have written more about the hard parts, the times when contractors were difficult or her imperfect French proved to be a problem.

But didn't "Pearl Harbor" prove that an imperfect story line is no barrier to putting viewers in the seats as long as the graphics are good?