Sentence examples for work imperfectly from inspiring English sources

One of the world's great economists - he won the Nobel Prize in 2001 for his elegant demonstrations that markets necessarily work imperfectly, on any reasonable assumption that market participants are not all knowledgeable - he is also not afraid to get his hands dirty in the world of policy-making.

If I were to write my laws of technology I think one of them would say something like "Any technology revolution that doesn't work imperfectly doesn't work".

Research findings on the implementation of the KP also reveal that climate mechanisms such as the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) might only work imperfectly and could need lengthy adjustment measures [4].

The central conclusion from this paper is that technology-specific RES-E support schemes may generate significant economic benefits, particularly if technology markets work imperfectly and in second-best policy settings with additional non-internalized market failures.

So it went to market with a console that had all this weight attached, at a price $100 higher than its savvier-looking competition and fueled by the MBA-ish logic that says customers come around if they're promoted hard enough (If my first law of technology is "Any revolution that doesn't work imperfectly doesn't work" then my second is "You can't buy resonance").

They all work, but they work imperfectly.

But the drawbridge works imperfectly.

Jabari, Benn argued, was in effect Israel's point man in a money-for-truce exchange that worked imperfectly.

The OPEC spigot on member countries' output is the main instrument for controlling prices and wielding the cartel's power, but it works imperfectly.

That landmark 1986 ruling, Batson v. Kentucky, has been working imperfectly, defense lawyers say, because the court has not yet made clear how trial judges are to evaluate a prosecutor's assertion that the removal of a substantial number of black prospective jurors was unrelated to race.

I cannot tell you that it worked perfectly, it worked very imperfectly but it worked".