Sentence examples for rather ill-defined from inspiring English sources

It was literally inconceivable, and this is what made it frightening: death was utterly definitive, even if rather ill-defined.

A thin, rather ill-defined vision of individual behaviour change, characterised by the popular terminology of 'nudge' is the best that government has to offer here.

For all that, Welbeck's £16m move to Arsenal still feels like a cause for cautious optimism for a genuine, if rather ill-defined attacking talent.

The southern low plateaus were mostly filled by a mass of rather ill-defined Paleogene and Neogene sands and gravel called the molasse, stripped off the rising Pyrenees.

And we can do this without questioning the idea that we cannot affect the past, except, at any rate, in the rather ill-defined collection of cases to which Ockham draws our attention.

Being inducibly recruited to membrane-proximal signalling scaffolds to regulate NFAT, AP-1 and NFκB-mediated gene transcription in T-cells, the function of HPK1 in B-cells to date remains rather ill-defined.

However, control conditions currently employed are often rather ill defined and do not parallel important modulating variables, e.g., physical or cognitive load of the TSST.

Microhomology-mediated end-joining, although still rather ill defined, has been described as the pathway that uses only a few homologous nucleotides to establish contact between the two ends of the break.

"If you bring in poorly trained staff and then tell them to do something which is rather difuse and ill-defined and without any clearly defined guidelines you don't get much happening". Melhuish accused the department of losing its drive on Sure Start.

To its credit, the Obama Administration recognized from the start that China's ascent represents the central strategic challenge of our era, and that it — rather than an ill-defined "War on Terror" — ought to be the focus of U.S. foreign policy.

Although there was no difference in prevalence of 'diffuse coronary artery disease, no significant stenoses' vs. 'no coronary artery disease' between patients with DM and controls, increased prevalence of atherosclerosis in patients with DM may have contributed to our findings, since these CAG diagnoses were rather subjective and ill-defined.