In most parts of the developing world, control over resources at the village level is ill-defined.
When an organization lacks a clear destination, it usually has many ill-defined ones.
The fears about loss of privacy expressed by some consumers have always been a little ill-defined and overly general.
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The occasional half-step across that ill-defined line is tolerated, indeed applauded at times.
Clouds are entities that, from the ground, may have distinct shapes and sizes, but are internally ill-defined and blurry anomalies.
The full genome of Helicobacter is known, but the jobs of most of the proteins that it produces are ill-defined.
Others will argue that speaking Welsh is, in this context at least, as ill-defined a practice as being a Christian.
His ill-defined and hard to imagine personal communicator is the smartphone sitting in your pocket or the tablet in your hand.
All manner and kind of individuals and organizations found themselves threatened by this blunderbuss of an ill-defined, and therefore all-too-potent, prosecutorial weapon.
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Often the reasons for doing it are ill-defined, the executives inexperienced in making technology investments and the payoff too long in coming.
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The roles of the various foreign-policy representatives were ill-defined and potentially contradictory.
The list of these risks is so long and ill-defined that Mr Shiller thinks it better to concentrate on bigger, national numbers instead.
Although the European legislative landscape for antitrust follow-on claims remains ill-defined, cases are nonetheless being brought in courts across member states in increasing numbers.
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Many have advocated a restructuring of mortgage loans to keep people in their homes, but the proposals advanced are relatively arbitrary, with ill-defined incentives.
The federal agency says the term "energy drink" isn't defined by any FDA regulation, describing it as an ill-defined marketing term with widely varying ingredients.
Partners with little management training deploy expensive associates in a haphazard manner against ill-defined tasks within an incentive structure that motivates waste and anti-client behavior.
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But thanks to ill-defined property laws, these assets are dead capital.
Most disturbing, the taxpayer will be funding an enormous, ill-defined programme, without any stipulation as yet that the banks who orchestrated the mess will pay a penalty.
Galvanized by these early successes, Barbar started a wild, ill-defined door to door expansion, moving in and occupying every little neighbouring shop whose owner was prepared to surrender.
It is by no means on side and while Nato moves into its new and as yet ill-defined post-2014 role, it will still be a neighbour to Afghanistan.
Attaching rights to carbon in standing forest, while easier to define, will run into similar problems in places where ownership of forestland and forest services are weak and ill-defined.
But Im Dong-Hyun simply aims at the ill-defined yellow blob, shimmering and fuzzy at 70m, and somehow his poise, strength and technique combine to put the arrow right on target.
Irritable bowel is an ill-defined disorder with subjective symptoms.
Mali is now a test bed for the effectiveness of international action against militant Islam in Africa -- action that brings together very different capabilities and cultures and that has an ill-defined goal.
As the agency contemplates whether Google is a monopolist in the ill-defined market for search, they may find the competitive ground has shifted beneath their feet in just the 15 months since they began investigating.
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Brad Anderson's "Next Stop Wonderland, " which is getting a split decision from yours truly (half a thumb up, if you crave an ill-defined generalization), is cute, no doubt about it, but in annoying ways that are fast becoming the calling card of the format.
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Assuming it makes sense to create a workplace cause of action for intentionally inflicted emotional distress that does not meet the requirements of the common law tort, this bill, with its ill-defined and hopelessly broad restrictions on workplace conduct was not the measure to do it.
After a stint leading ill-fated tech company Tele-TV, he took a vaguely defined job as president of Sony Corp. of America in 1997.
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