Inaccurate Sentence Examples

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  • If this is inaccurate or incomplete, the Government cannot blame the newspapers.

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  • His book is, however, inaccurate and grossly partial.

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  • It is often inaccurate, and it abounds in farfetched conceits and odd and pedantic features.

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  • As a matter of fact, Leonardo gives a wholly inaccurate account of the direction of the stroke of the wing.

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  • This result, though widely inaccurate, came much nearer to the truth than any previously obtained; and it instructively illustrated the feasibility of concerted astronomical operations at distant parts of the earth.

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  • The address of the clergy, inspired by the great prelates, sought to make inaccurate lamentations over the progress of impiety a means of safeguarding their enormous spiritual and temporal powers, their privileges and exemptions, and their vast wealth.

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  • Maps of the roads in the area are grossly inaccurate.

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  • The Gospel and the First Epistle are written in correct and flowing Greek, and there is not a barbarism, a solecism, or a provincialism in them; whereas the Greek of the Apocalypse is inaccurate, disfigured by unusual or foreign words and even at times by solecisms."

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  • The " East Indies," as opposed to the " West Indies," is an old-fashioned and inaccurate phrase, dating from the dawn of maritime discovery, and still lingering in certain parliamentary papers.

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  • Up to this time the Territory had still remained for the most part a wilderness in which the fur trade reaped the largest profits, its few small settlements being confined to the borders; and the inaccurate reports of the surveyors sent out by the national government described the interior as a vast swamp with only here and there a little land fit for cultivation.

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  • The information might be old, outdated or inaccurate.

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  • The use, therefore, of the inaccurate and misleading terms northern and southern ought no longer to be followed in scholarly works on Buddhism.

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  • Gentleman would be pretty merciless if the answers were drafted and they turned out to be inaccurate.

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  • His statements are sometimes demonstrably inaccurate (see Making of Religion, Appendix C).

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  • In 1636 he met with a congenial spirit in William Crabtree, a draper of Broughton, near Manchester; and encouraged by his advice he exchanged the guidance of Philipp von Lansberg, a pretentious but inaccurate Belgian astronomer, for that of Kepler.

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  • But although the book in question was issued under letters patent, it is not really a translation of the Elizabethan book at all, but simply a reshaping of Aless's clever and inaccurate translation of Edward VI.'s first book.

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  • Michelet's wonderful depiction in his Histoire de France (livres 13 to 17) has never teen surpassed for graphic word-painting, but it is inaccurate in details, and superseded in scholarship. Of the original sources for the reign the Lettres de Louis XI.

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  • It is this aggregation which we describe variously as birth, death, maturity, decay, and of which the senses give inaccurate reports.

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  • The Augustan age produced in Livy a great popular historian and natural artist and a trained rhetorician (in the speeches), - but as uncritical and inaccurate as he was brilliant.

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  • We will also correct, amend or delete any Personal Data that is inaccurate and notify any third party recipients of the necessary changes.

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  • That of 1900 was notoriously inaccurate in many instances.

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  • Moderns generally acquit him of this charge; but his severer critics still urge that, from the inherent defects of his character, his credulity, his love of effect and his loose and inaccurate habits of thought, he was unfitted for the historian's office, and has produced a work of but small historical value.

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  • The record was so inaccurate that it had no statistical value until 1820, when the muster was taken after due preparation and with greater care, approximating to the system of a regular census.

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  • Rough approximations must always precede accurate measurements; and these returns, while often inaccurate, are better than nothing, and probably improve with each decade.

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  • He is less inaccurate in fact than Michelet, but he is also much less absorbed by a single idea at a time, and the result is that he seldom attains to the vivid representation of which Michelet was a master.

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  • The first attempt to evolve order out of the chaos which had long reigned supreme was made in 1791, for we find in the preface of the first volume of the Stud-Book, published in 1808, that " with a view to correct the then increasing evil of false and inaccurate pedigrees, the author was in the year 1791 prevailed upon to publish an Introduction to a General Stud-Book, consisting of a small collection of pedigrees which he had extracted from racing calendars and sale papers and arranged on a new plan."

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  • However, typographical errors and inaccurate information are unavoidable with a project this size and with an ever changing medical landscape.

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  • Many ADSL modems will display the equivalent of the woosh test, but these can be inaccurate.

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  • The GameCube has been pegged as being for "kids", but that's inaccurate.

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  • Many of these sites exist to earn advertising revenue or make the site owner money, and they often contain inaccurate or risky investment advice.

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  • Divvy up the list of errors into three separate piles and write up formal disputes for everything that is the slightest inaccurate.

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  • Monitor it for mistakes and clear up any inaccurate information.

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  • The law says that you have a right to know what is in your file and that, if it's inaccurate, you have an opportunity to correct the mistakes.

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  • If, after looking through your personal records, you find that (a) you have already satisfied the debt or (b) the amount is inaccurate, you have cause to send a dispute letter.

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  • This does not mean they can instantly eliminate suspected fraud or inaccurate information.

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  • If using existing cushion sections, make sure that they're flat and complete or your pattern will be inaccurate.

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  • Unfortunately, some communities feel it is no longer cost-effective to recycle, even though in the long run, this will prove inaccurate.

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  • Your mother may have taught you that testing foundation on your hand or arm is a great way to find the perfect match, however this advice is outdated and inaccurate.

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  • For this measurement, you want to hold the tape loosely, as pulling too tight will result in an inaccurate reading.

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  • Just as with any news or gossip website, there are times when what is reported is inaccurate and yes, biased.

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  • So began the long history of inaccurate and negative press about the breed.

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  • Keep in mind that the tuner may sometimes record an inaccurate reading if it is too far from the strings.

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  • A chart that prints slightly too large or slightly too small will give inaccurate results.

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  • Readers who see inaccurate pictures will question our credibility, and we want to be accurate.

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  • Known as Katana in Japan, Sodom is a caucasian male obsessed with Japanese culture, though his knowledge of the language and other details is largely inaccurate and incomplete.

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  • The full QWERTY keyboard lets you easily send messages or write emails without trying to use an inaccurate touch screen keyboard.

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  • Children taking the test who have had certain foods, medications, or cigarettes before the test may get inaccurate results.

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  • The arm cuff used to measure blood pressure in children must be appropriate to the child's size, or the reading may be inaccurate.

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  • Because movement during the scan can cause inaccurate images, the technologist instructs the patient via an intercom system to hold their breath and not move during the x rays.

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  • Never post inaccurate, old, or retouched photographs.

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  • The dates (1762-1794) given in so many biographies of Desmoulins are certainly inaccurate.

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  • Francis Hyett's Florence (London, 1903) is more recent and compendious; the author is somewhat Medicean in his views, and frequently inaccurate.

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  • Several other countries followed suit in the course of the 18th century, though the results were either partial or inaccurate.

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  • Xenophon (Hellenica, i., ii.) was an eye-witness in 406-403, but is clearly inaccurate in his details and prejudiced throughout.

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  • His work is for this reason important, but is unfortunately inaccurate.

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  • The expression "Cave Temples" used by Anglo-Indians of such halls is inaccurate.

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  • The derivation of " adouber," corresponding to " dub," from " adoptare," which is given by Du Cange, and would connect the ceremony with " adoptio per arma," is certainly inaccurate.

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  • In many cases indeed an image even of a most familiar scene is exceedingly vague and inaccurate.

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  • In dealing with modern Italian history he is reactionary and often wilfully inaccurate.

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  • They are useful chiefly as illustrating the ideas and passions of the time, for they give comparatively little information as to facts and that little is peculiarly inaccurate.

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  • Gason, author of a work on the Dieri tribe, knew their language well, but several of his statements appear to be inaccurate.

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  • Jason Donovan won libel damages over inaccurate claims about his sexuality, so it is still considered actionable.

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  • Inaccurate results are not anomalous Poor results with a low accuracy will not give a graph with a smooth trend.

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  • Magnificent performances by a majority of the participating athletes were marred in several cases by doubtful and inaccurate judging.

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  • There still are not notes as to where the data are inaccurate because of the problem with the scintillation counter... ' .

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  • Whatever the reason, a journalist whose story turns out to be inaccurate, unfair or untrue will very justifiably earn public derision.

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  • Appropriately severe penalties should be applied in cases where inaccurate or even fraudulent information is submitted.

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  • Unfortunately, we quickly found that there are some bugs in Photoshop that make the book inaccurate in some respects.

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  • There followed a series of " spun " reports from Downing Street, often wildly inaccurate on military matters.

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  • But while some of us chuckle at the hint of truth therein, such a sweeping rebuttal is woefully inaccurate.

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  • This can become inaccurate in the earlier censuses due to illiteracy.

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  • All systems record an average reflectance for each pixel, such that areas of small habitats can give inaccurate data.

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  • Mayer's real merit consists in the fact that, having for himself made out, on inadequate and even questionable grounds, the conservation of energy, and having obtained (though by inaccurate reasoning) a numerical result correct so far as his data permitted, he applied the principle with great power and insight to the explanation of numerous physical phenomena.

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  • Allusions to silk and its source became common in classical literature; but, although these references show familiarity with the material, they are singularly vague and inaccurate as to its source; even Pliny knew nothing more about the silkworm than could be learned from Aristotle's description.

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  • The idea is a mere convention, product of inaccurate thinking and custom.

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  • With so many products to choose from and so many opportunities to make a wrong choice, an inaccurate measurement or an installation error, the road to a faultless remodel can seem like a distant dream.

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  • If the infant has had blood drawn often from the same site on the heel or heels, causing scarring, inflammation, or the accumulation of tissue fluid, it may cause inaccurate test results.

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  • Cultural and language differences in the test subject may affect performance and may result in inaccurate test results.

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  • Cultural and language differences in the test subject may affect test performance and may result in inaccurate MMPI results.

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  • Research has revealed that many rejected children make impulsive, inaccurate, and incomplete judgments about how to behave in social situations and are lacking in social problem-solving skills.

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  • Cultural and language differences among children may affect test performance and may result in inaccurate test results.

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  • The perception many adults have that peer pressure is one culture or a unified front of dangerous influence is inaccurate.

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  • In addition, they can provide data for making age assessments for children whose birth date in unknown or for whom a birth certificate does not exist or is suspected of being inaccurate.

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  • Payments can be misapplied, incorrect interest rates can be charged and communication to the borrower can be inaccurate.

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  • If you suspect the results of your early pregnancy test are inaccurate, the best course of action is to call your healthcare provider.

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  • While the First Response Pregnancy Test is extremely accurate, many factors may can lead to an inaccurate pregnancy test result.

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  • A lot of inaccurate information is passed around; hence the growing host of wives' tales that are passed down from generation to generation.

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  • After this time frame is up, you may get inaccurate results due to an evaporation line on a pregnancy test.

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  • Taking a home pregnancy test isn't difficult, but failing to read the directions for the brand you've selected may produce an inaccurate result.

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  • Many inaccurate results of home pregnancy tests are due to improper administration of the test.

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  • Home pregnancy tests, including a dollar store test, can sometimes give inaccurate results.

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  • If any of this information is inaccurate, the results will be inaccurate as well.

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  • More importantly, the myth that these tie-dependant swimsuits are always coming undone is, indeed, inaccurate.

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  • A variety of measurements can be averaged for the best size, rather than risking one inaccurate measurement.

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  • To avoid an inaccurate chart, double check the chart you're using.

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  • It is against the law to provide inaccurate information when applying for food stamps.

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  • Or if some of our information is inaccurate, we would appreciate any corrections you would like to make.

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  • The UK's General Medical Council, which provides British medical licenses and safeguards medical ethics, is investigating the inaccurate data charges against Wakefield and a number of his colleagues who were involved in the study.

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  • The accusation of inaccurate data led the UK's General Medical Council (GMC), the authority over medical licensing and ethics, to launch an investigation of Wakefield and study co-authors that lasted from 2007 to 2010.

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  • Wakefield's detractors also accused him of inaccurate data collection and questionable ethical practices during the study.

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  • If you find inaccurate data, contact the bureaus for information on their dispute process.

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  • You can clean your records of any inaccurate data.

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  • Typographical errors, spelling mistakes and inaccurate financial data reduce your credibility and may reduce the number of funding opportunities you have for your business.

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  • Inaccurate ingredient amounts remain a critical safety issue.

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  • If your application is incomplete or inaccurate, it will not be processed, so be prepared to do the leg work first if you want to have a chance of having your procedure covered.

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  • Sometimes the information provided on these sites is inaccurate, but more often it turns out to be completely true.

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  • The profile trackers can still give inaccurate information if there are multiple users for one computer.

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  • It's hard to complain that people are lying about you in public when you are providing inaccurate information of your own.

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  • However, that is an inaccurate view - when you "turn off" JavaScript, what you are really doing is turning off your web browser's ability to read and execute JavaScript code within the web page.

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  • So the " Prince " is historically inaccurate but you won't want to get distracted by what a proxy wedding was.

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  • Consequently when asked questions, the expert might provide inaccurate, inconsistent and incomplete information.

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  • Conditions that cause pain on breathing, such as broken ribs, may interfere with the performance of the tests and produce inaccurate results.

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  • Attachment theorists believe this is inaccurate, as these behaviors help serve to ensure the child's survival and socialization.

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  • The Spanish Renaissance would in itself suffice, if other witnesses were wanting, to prove how inaccurate is the theory that limits this movement to the revival of learning.

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  • For example, membership details of the Openness working group were inaccurate.

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  • As with its UK brother, this US edition has an inaccurate frontispiece.

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  • Beside, many of the exhibits are out of their time, or factually inaccurate.

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  • As a result, the historical reckoning and dating system was inaccurate.

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  • I must be very careful not to make sweeping, inaccurate generalizations.

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  • The Annals of the North, the Annals of Krung Kao (Ayuthia) and the Book of the Lives of the Four Kings (of the present dynasty) together form the only more or less connected history of the country from remote times down to the beginning of the present reign, and these, at least so far as the earlier parts are concerned, contain much that is inaccurate and a good deal which is altogether untrue.

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  • He was generally furnished with notes, meagre indeed and inaccurate, of what had been said; but sometimes he had to find arguments and eloquence both for the ministry and for the opposition.

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  • At first sight they may seem inaccurate, but on closer examination the Graecizing is seen to follow definite rules, especially in the Ptolemaic period.

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  • A hideous tale is told by Buchanan against his private morals, but it is certainly inaccurate in detail, and is uncorroborated, while it appears to turn on a confusion between an alleged royal mistress, " the Daisy," and Margaret (Daisy), the king's own sister.

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  • The earlier biographies of Garrick are by Arthur Murphy (2 vols., 1801) and by the bookseller Tom Davies (2 vols., 4th ed., 1805), the latter a work of some merit, but occasionally inaccurate and confused as to dates; and a searching if not altogether sympathetic survey of his verses is furnished by Joseph Knight's valuable Life (1894).

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  • This work, like his Historia politica y literaria de los trovadores (1878-1879), is inaccurate, partial and unscientific; but both books are attractively written and have done great service to the cause which Balaguer once upheld.

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  • When the war commenced the War Office and the army were full of explosive and inaccurate ideas regarding the Press.

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  • It is indeed highly suggestive that just those occurrences which are the most remote from the assumed standpoint of the writer are the most correctly stated, while the nearer we approach the author's supposed time, the more inaccurate does he become.

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  • He was constitutionally inaccurate, and seems to have been unable to represent the exact sense of a document which lay before him, or even to copy from it correctly.

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  • The results of the twelfth census (1900) further refute the argument that would maintain the eleventh census to be inaccurate because it showed a smaller rate of increase in population during the preceding decade than had been recorded by other censuses during earlier decades.

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  • The needless bitterness of his attacks upon Plato (in the Comparatio Aristotelis et Platonis), which drew forth a powerful response from Bessarion (q.v.), and the manifestly hurried and inaccurate character of his translations of Plato, Aristotle and other classical authors, combined to ruin his fame as a scholar, and to endanger his position as a teacher of philosophy.

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  • The reports of the debates of the National Assembly in the Point du Jour, though not inaccurate, are as a matter of fact very incomplete and very dry.

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