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imperfect

not perfect; defective or inadequate had only an imperfect understanding of his responsibilities imperfect mortals drainage here is imperfect (= fallible, frail) wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings I'm only a fallible human frail humanity (= progressive) a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going

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Simple sentences

Language is human, therefore imperfect.

Movie subtitles

We've rejected everyone of imperfect health. or anyone who had friends who objected.
And you'll forgive me for my car's imperfect performance?
We're imperfect by nature.
Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more.
It is the world outside that is imperfect.
If all is imperfect in this imperfect world, then love is most imperfect in it's perfect imperfection.
Dear Lord. the more I try, the more imperfect I become.
But like all little novices, she's still imperfect in discipline.
IMPERFECT ONLY IN ITS SOLEMNITY.
Imperfect fix. obviously.
In Nomad's eyes, you must now undoubtedly appear imperfect.
It will find the Earth infested with imperfect biological units.
A perfect end to an imperfect life.
We're imperfect by nature. But rehabilitated sisters must be flawless.
These, Mr. Gregory, are my trophies, perfect memories of so very many imperfect crimes.
That's all until next time when we shall be back with another, though imperfect, crime.
If all is imperfect in this imperfect world, then love is most imperfect in its perfect imperfection.
As a matter of fact, your husband, mrs. Lucas, happens to be most. imperfect.
Perfect conduct for the imperfect man in his imperfect world.
In Nomad's eyes, you must now appear imperfect.
Oh, no, we are very imperfect and the poorest of men. but we did walk to Rome and would not go home the poorer for it.
It is a judgment maimed and most imperfect that will confess perfection so could err against all rules of nature.
And found that its creator is as imperfect as all the other biological units.
I am programmed to destroy those life forms which are imperfect.
It too is imperfect, but can be adjusted.
I admit that biological units are imperfect, but a biological unit created you.

News and current affairs

To the extent that false flags are imperfect and rumors of the source of an attack are widely deemed credible (though not legally probative), reputational damage to an attacker's soft power may contribute to deterrence.
This would not be achieved, however, through an inevitably imperfect sanctions regime, or by America's resort to Cold War logic aimed at breaking Iran's backbone by drawing it into a ruinous arms race.
The asymmetry of these connections may also help us understand why psychotherapy is often such a difficult and prolonged process, for it relies on imperfect channels of communication between brain systems involved in cognition and emotion.
But it can provide a political framework and institution-building support to improve the deficiencies that made these countries so vulnerable to the crisis: imperfect market economies, weak state institutions, and continued corruption.
What we showed is that, as soon as one recognizes that information is imperfect - as it obviously is - then these externalities can be shown to be pervasive, and that market failures are similarly pervasive.
Last year's laureates emphasized that different market participants have different (and imperfect) information, and these asymmetries in information have profound impact on how an economy functions.
Sticking to a simple objective in the interests of a quiet life, even if you know it to be imperfect, is an inelegant posture at best.
As imperfect as our governance systems are, at some point the public and its leaders may demand that we confront the truth about global warming.
This commitment was made with the full knowledge that democracies are imperfect and terribly complicated.
The European elite needs to revert to the principles that guided the Union's creation, recognizing that our understanding of reality is inherently imperfect, and that perceptions are bound to be biased and institutions flawed.
Such a strategy would be less simple than merely holding highly imperfect elections.
As long as an ideal system is out of reach, an imperfect option will have to do.
There is a simple prudential principle at work here: because our ability to monitor and regulate behavior is necessarily imperfect, we need to rely on a broader set of interventions.
We design contracts around imperfect trustworthiness and construct elaborate institutions that take account of the hills and valleys of human honor.
China prefers an imperfect status quo to such alternatives.
Such is the nature of the imperfect reliability of psychiatric diagnosis.
For good or ill, democratic sentiment will win out, and Britain's human-rights record, while imperfect, remains strong.
As it stands, labor mobility is imperfect in the EU.
Because monetary policy operates with lags, central banks must avoid fixating on the here and now, and instead use imperfect forecasts to anticipate the future effects of their decisions.
But rather than recognize, let alone respond to, pre-crisis excesses, the Fed has remained agnostic about them, pointing out that bubble-spotting is, at best, an imperfect science.
Here, eurozone members would collectively opt for a smaller and less imperfect union that includes countries with more similar initial conditions - economically, financially, politically, and socially.
Imperfect information and difficulties in monitoring firms pose significant obstacles to idealized risk-sharing instruments.
Markets are imperfect controllers of their own fate as are all human endeavors, particularly those based on speculation and greed.
International control mechanisms of sufficient authority to police global financial markets are not in place today, with not be around for some time, and will remain imperfect even then.
Of course, historical analogies are imperfect.
They also sustained, against all odds, a democracy that, however imperfect and dysfunctional, is nonetheless amazingly vibrant.

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