Sentence examples for surveying errors from inspiring English sources

Boundary lines, maps and greed lie behind the lofty rhetoric of manifest destiny and divine providence, which, in so many cases, boiled down to the minutiae of meandering rivers, surveying errors, obscure historical claims and disputed fishing rights.

Which partly accounts for the scheme he came up with during the early '70s to buy parcels of "gutterspace" — tiny, useless pieces of land, the remnants of surveying errors and zoning anomalies that New York City auctioned off to raise petty cash.

Matta-Clark also famously sliced up abandoned buildings, including an industrial shed on Pier 52, and he acquired parcels of so-called gutter space in Queens and on Staten Island — tiny, useless pieces of land, the remnants of surveying errors and zoning anomalies that New York City auctioned off to raise petty cash, which he photographed and filmed as if they were examples of found art.

The origins of odd lot shapes — like awkward triangles, long slivers and rectangles with sizable bites taken out — are usually a mystery to city administrators, though they are assumed to come from old surveying errors or ancient easements, which allow one to use another's property.

The empirically derived ancestral ratios may be more effective for mitigating the impact of confounding, because they can be more accurate than self-reported ancestry, as the former are derived from the genetic data per se, and are less susceptible to survey errors or recall bias.

It was much easier to leave the mistake as it was than for Texas to cede land to New Mexico to correct the original surveying error.

He was apparently referring to the year the Senate overwhelmingly overrode President Ronald Reagan's veto of a land bill that granted a few acres to some retired couples who had paid for it, only to discover later that the land was still government property due to a surveying error.

Because of survey errors by StellaService, we've published an updated post with new numbers relating to the Twitter test.

For one thing, in numeric surveys, errors are almost always upward: since the amounts of estimated losses must be positive, there's no limit on the upside, but zero is a hard limit on the downside.

This chapter describes how to apply usability principles to survey research to identify and reduce survey errors.

Leveling routes are usually laid out in the form of a loop, in order to check for survey errors.