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If your weight is excessive then the implication is that the excess is fat and, of course, people's body composition varies enormously and BMI doesn't know anything about that so it's a very imprecise index when applied to individuals.
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The map, with its committee of cartographers, is a pretty imprecise document, but, for the first phase, it has clear demands: it calls on the Palestinians to end their violence unconditionally, and it simultaneously calls on Israel to start reopening the reoccupied areas, and to freeze all its settlement activity.
ECONOMIST: America's next challenge is Israel
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The aim was never precise verification, but rather to use a process of admittedly imprecise inspections to make cheating gradually harder.
ECONOMIST: Has George Bush ever met a treaty that he liked?
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Reformers cannot constantly wave this idea around as though they are the only ones who care about teacher quality, and then plug their ears whenever critics point out that tests are a very crude, very imprecise measure of student achievements and teacher quality.
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You have to work back from there -- and this is a little bit of an imprecise science -- but you have to work back from there to allow for what it would take to write and pass legislation that would take care of this issue.
WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing
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As a scientist, your language is remarkably imprecise and ambiguous.
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Are the criteria so imprecise that auditors can have significant doubt, year after year that a company can survive the next twelve months only to be proven wrong, over and over again?
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As a consequence, the dollar price of gold is the best, though imprecise, real-time measure of the price level.
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Although the findings of the studies are mostly consistent in showing a similar magnitude hazard ratio, estimates of the effectiveness of sipuleucel-T are imprecise due to the relatively small total sample size of the clinical trials, and unmeasurable biases due to potential confounding effects of frozen salvage product and post-progression treatments.
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Controls are still imprecise and frustrating, the combat is improved but still muddy, and the plot is still hampered by a commitment to bizarre techno-mysticism and modern-day nonsense.
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