Statutory language is sufficiently imprecise to permit considerable latitude in interpretation by the courts. |
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Riots do tend to be woefully imprecise, but they are generally not random or unmotivated. |
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Music may have meaning, but it is an imprecise language, a language of suggestion and imagery rather than verbal description. |
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The biggest source of error about the size and shape of the Sun is imprecise knowledge about the size and shape of the Moon. |
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Even when used in a statement so imprecise as the one he had just vocalized, it sounded as though Seth had it all planned out anyway. |
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The article abounds with graphs sporting unlabeled axes, imprecise axis scales, inaccurately plotted points, and confused methods explanations. |
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Undoubtedly, English law was imprecise on the matter of obscenity, and the jurist might well have found this irritating. |
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But a few other hawk-eyed readers pointed out that the grammar I used in my column was actually imprecise and clumsy. |
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Twisting the rubber handgrips gets you moving at a healthy pace, but steering through a rubber-cone chicane is awkward and imprecise. |
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Age can be determined, but it is imprecise and the final decision could well be up to individual inspectors. |
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Compared to music, he felt that words were imprecise and crude when describing emotions. |
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The diagnosis of PND is becoming increasingly imprecise, with no agreed and universally accepted symptoms. |
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It is always more difficult to try and justify the status quo than to wave the banner for a bold, if imprecise, vision of things to come. |
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In a very loose and imprecise sense that may be accurate but it is not accurate for the purpose of proper analysis. |
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Most stores will not be held liable if your custom window coverings do not fit due to your imprecise measurements. |
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His notes and recollection were at times unclear, imprecise or entirely lacking. |
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Any definition of qualitative research would be elusive, vague, and imprecise. |
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All I did was illustrate how absurd and imprecise your label was with another absurd and imprecise label. |
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Traditionally determinism has been given various, usually imprecise definitions. |
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As we noted earlier, the distinction between CIHD and other heart diseases is imprecise. |
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I suspect that the definition of spoiled child is as imprecise and variable as the kids you are likely to meet. |
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Range of movement in the elbow deteriorated less in the direct access group but goniometry measurements can be imprecise. |
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The limited information provided on this test was scant and imprecise, and I found it of no assistance. |
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But the central thesis of the work was that these leaders generally make decisions based on imprecise readings of the past. |
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However, this technique is imprecise and can be messy and difficult to accomplish. |
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Previous results pertaining to interlock centrality might be spurious or misleadingly imprecise. |
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Writing about graphic design unfortunately tends to be imprecise when not wholly inaccurate. |
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These are important methods for looking into the past, but relatively imprecise for dating events. |
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I try to persuade them that holistic medicine need not be, indeed must not be, woolly and imprecise. |
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Leiter makes sweeping and imprecise generalizations that turn out to be arrant nonsense, however you interpret them. |
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The Jobclock system, designed exclusively for the construction trades, eliminates inaccurate or imprecise timecards. |
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It will simply conceal whatever gaps in communication there are under another layer of imprecise language. |
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We can let all the other imprecise statements and ungrounded assertions go, but you should at least try to address these points. |
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Sideward misalignment of more than 0.3 mm results in an imprecise transition between the trac sections. |
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A stimulant is a rather imprecise term used for a variety of different kinds of drug, some with medical uses and others with only recreational use. |
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States must refrain from restricting freedom of expression through vague, imprecise, and overly broad regulatory language. |
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Some of the mutterings of rust Cohle come from the perfectly elliptical and safely imprecise musings of Thomas Ligotti. |
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Examination of these cases reveals that a vast majority have their roots in the imprecise definitions of the current directive. |
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For example the definition of peacekeeping offered is too imprecise and does not specify the types of operations covered. |
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The previous lever was a typical steering-column-mounted affair that I always found awkward and imprecise to use. |
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Time-consuming and imprecise adjustment, and constant visual inspection of the rotameter display, are things of the past. |
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In some countries, especially those without birth registration, determining the age of children is an imprecise science. |
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Manifestations of actual Islamist terrorist activities in the region remain imprecise. |
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In general usage, languages are necessarily imprecise, or they would lack the flexibility and infinite extensibility demanded of them. |
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Upon stratification by histopathological subtype, the number of cases was small and ORs were relatively imprecise. |
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Being aware that imprecise formulation can lead to different interpretations. |
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In the old days, when cars had carburetors, fuel metering was so imprecise that the carburetor would pour way too much fuel into the cylinders at idle. |
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All of these changes occur on the basis of a vague, imprecise and overly expansive definition of terrorist activity. |
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The diffuse and imprecise nature of just who bares the increased tax liabilities makes the point difficult to understand. |
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Electron diameters are imprecise, but not because there are swarms of micro-electron-dust, each particle of which is also a swarm of something even smaller. |
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Anxiety, often imprecise and ill-informed, threatens to destroy rational debate, and the mutual trust on which the Community is built. |
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Firstly, the treatment of a small number of items is imprecise because there is no clear view on the best methodology to follow. |
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Thus when people make claims about shared values among Canadians, what they are usually saying is not so much false as it is imprecise. |
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The administration of justice is a very, very imprecise science. |
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In no way do we accept incoherent, vague, imprecise, insipid and inodorous phrases, etc. |
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With forecasted benefits imprecise and unsubstantiated, final costs are significantly higher than originally expected. |
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She could be wretchedly imprecise, capricious, and heartless to her co-workers. |
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Yet, wine does present an awkward problem: the vocabulary for describing subtle differences in smells and flavors is imprecise. |
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He made the very good point that the draft bill is imprecise. |
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They have been criticised for imprecise bombing and for a naval blockade which has stopped almost all fuel and food reaching the country. |
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Economic tonic An imprecise catastrophe Slow bicycle race Paying through the mouse Slackers or pace-setters? |
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This term is used in an imprecise manner in everyday language: service providers, consultants and outsourced operations are all grouped together. |
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We do not think that he is free to legislate interstitially within the 'open texture' of imprecise rules. |
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A sequential ranking of other major powers beyond the top two would be imprecise at best. |
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However, definitions of the Arctic Ocean and its seas tend to be imprecise or arbitrary. |
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The objectives of the air campaign were imprecise and not achieved. |
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This message has been stressed in a number of analytical papers, although the absolute results must always be taken with a grain of salt since any assessment of the economic costs will be imprecise. |
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Without the baseline for comparison provided by a counterfactual, frustrated economists must hazard guesses as to what caused what. Past efforts to estimate the benefits of membership have therefore been imprecise. |
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There is concern that the overhaul instructions for adjusting the torque dampener are imprecise and it would be difficult to adjust the torque dampener correctly. |
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Because of a lack of reliable units for measuring the size of fields, the calculation of areas is relatively imprecise, especially when it comes to estimating how much of the area has been sown, weeded and harvested. |
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She's been methodical, responsive, elusive, exact, polite, imprecise. |
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Such an exercise is doomed to be imprecise. |
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It seems to me it would minimize disputes and clarify the situation quite clearly, rather than relying on judicial interpretation of as yet, an undefined or imprecise reference. |
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Finally, I trust that the problems stemming from the imprecise definition, following the judgment, of what is considered recovery will be urgently resolved for the good of everybody. |
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Evasive or imprecise answers usually mean that the items are not clear. |
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Incomplete and imprecise information, on the other hand, negates the benefit of such a system-one that is integral to operating the vessel safely. |
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Even if the destination is imprecise, the direction is known quite well. |
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Clearly, for smaller geographical areas, information updated every year is preferable to very old information, even if the random nature of a survey makes it somewhat imprecise. |
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Several answers are possible, other than those suggested in the answers, due to the imprecise nature of the questions which can be interpreted in different ways. |
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All attempts to categorize follow-up replies by States parties are inherently imprecise and subjective: it accordingly is not possible to provide a neat statistical breakdown of follow-up replies. |
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This process is as slow and tedious as it is imprecise. |
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Like the student from the past, he was always being reprimanded for his imprecise handwriting and varyingly thick lines. |
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It is now known that Hooke's equipment was far too imprecise to allow the measurement to succeed. |
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Besides being wasteful, planting was usually imprecise and led to a poor distribution of seeds, leading to low productivity. |
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Based on these estimates he denounced Darwin's geological estimates as imprecise. |
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They argue that however significant the empirical research, these studies use the term race in conceptually imprecise and careless ways. |
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Some of them are often referred to as 'Euroregions' although this is an imprecise concept that is used for a number of different arrangements. |
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Estimating their wealth in today's money is difficult and imprecise, considering that they owned art, land, and gold. |
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Consequently, comparative and superlative forms of such adjectives are not normally used, except in a figurative, humorous or imprecise context. |
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In this way, the terms fortis and lenis are convenient in discussing English phonology, even if they are phonetically imprecise. |
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Although the analysis has been carefully prepared, errors, imprecise or incomplete information or misestimates cannot be excluded. |
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Peter Horne and Josh Strauss scored for the hosts, who were outmuscled up-front, and too imprecise to capitalise on their second-half dominance. |
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The Air Force considered gyrocompasses and inertial navigators, but in 1958, they cost too much and were imprecise. |
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Today, cell counting is often performed by using hemocytometers that involve laborious manual counting or by using large, imprecise image-based counting systems. |
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There were many other German and Scandinavian versions of the rix-dollar, rijksdaalder, reisedaler, or reichstaler rendering the definition of this coin very imprecise. |
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The wide range in the percentages of aromatic compounds that may be present in each concentration means that the terminology of extrait, EdP, EdT, and EdC is quite imprecise. |
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Contemporary accounts of the plague are often varied or imprecise. |
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