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to exacting

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Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect.

  • The clock keeps exact time.

Exact(59)

On the evidence of the Adams première, we can at least look forward to exacting performances of contemporary music, which Masur tended to make a mess of.

And in the climactic fight sequences, as Hit-Girl moves closer to exacting vengeance on the chief bad guy, she becomes a victim as well as an agent of the violence.

The museum, which opened in 2007, at a cost of twenty-seven million dollars, features a planetarium, animatronic dinosaurs, and a partial replica, built to exacting scale, of Noah's Ark.

And they know that in a Democratic-leaning state with the national resources of the modern union movement, the unions have shown themselves to be, not a paper tiger, but certainly not up to exacting certain revenge.

The Jamaica Constabulary Force must be so used to exacting hefty fines and imposing custodial sentences for ganja possession that it will take them some time to get used to the legalised product (should that ever arrive).

Now, though, Mr. Yanukovich is close to exacting his revenge, leading in opinion polls in advance of a presidential election on Sunday and drawing large crowds like the one that gathered here this week in a light snowfall in this smokestack region in the southeast.

If you're an 11-year-old Indonesian boy in your bedroom, weighed down by being the only soul alive who knows the cure to Manchester United's tactical naiveties, then getting it up on YouTube might be your only avenue to exacting meaningful change.

I should stop there, but I do want to say that when one has been working on something for a long time, with great emotion and in extreme isolation, at first look the brain cannot even process what is happening when a line is cut, because the brain has built this world to exacting specifications with that line present.

At this stage the great danger is that excessive amour propre will extend to exacting recognition from others, disregarding their worth, and demanding subordination.

For this reason, it seems that because of the above short comings, the path will be opened to exacting the incremental dynamic analysis, e.g., assessing the sensitivity of the results to different intensity parameters.

Vegetables that in other places would be mere filler — the bell peppers, the onions — here are prepared to exacting degrees of crisp.

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