Sentence examples for vague limits from inspiring English sources

The idea is that since punishment involves suffering, it should be inflicted as minimally as possible, consistent with the vague limits of cardinal desert and any other goals (including deterrence and incapacitation) that should be cited to help provide a full justification for punishment.

The AUMF submitted by Obama authorizes three years of fighting against the Islamic State with vague limits on how engaged U.S. ground troops can be.

While it is impossible to determine how much time or money CMR spends on direct or grassroots lobbying and the group appears to operate within the vague legal limits for 501(c)3s, watchdog experts raised concerns that it still may be exceeding the allowable amount.

The ruling last week on the F.C.C.'s indecency policy, by a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit appeals court in New York, said the commission's rules were "impermissibly vague" in limiting what words could be uttered on broadcast television.

Possibly the largest exhibition about its subject held in New York, it comes at the viewer with a resonant if portentous title -- more than three decades of Canadian photography by nearly 60 artists and a theory of national cultural character that seems both vague and limiting.

Also data, either collected or available (historical), reflecting their failure and repair patterns are limited, vague and imprecise due to various practical constraints.

And lest it be thought that talk of the idea of a "vague Adam" is limited to his discussion in the 1680s with Arnauld about modal matters, it should be noted that Leibniz makes much the same point 20 years later in the concluding sections of the Theodicy discussed and quoted above when he writes of the "several Sextuses" that are to be found in the palace containing the books of fates.

Some are vague: "reasonableness" is one limit often set by law; "for personal use" is the limit on the amount of booze Britons can bring home on cross-channel ferries.

As for lingering concerns about the impact of desalination on marine life, the data is limited and vague.

In Hambrecht's view consumers' and policymakers' command of chemistry is frequently limited to vague memories of exploding beakers and funny smells in a high school laboratory.

Information about the landing beaches, the defences possessed by the port, and the Vichy French defending forces was limited and vague, although it was believed that the defenders had no weapons capable of penetrating the armour of a Valentine tank.