By replicating DNA slightly imperfectly, it has tried out many different possible organic blueprints.
That they didn't is arguably a sign that democracy is working in Indonesia, albeit imperfectly.
One snag is that the mix of Italy's businesses may be imperfectly suited to the new global economy.
Most scientific discoveries can be boiled down to a sound bite, however imperfectly.
Yet America, exceptionally if imperfectly, has led and still leads the world.
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Moscow's food markets notorious for ruthlessly enforced cartels were probably not the only ones in the world where the principles of Adam Smith were imperfectly applied.
So instead, I must try -- imperfectly, but I must try -- to make sure those values motivate me as one leader of this great nation.
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That does not affect their electrical conductivity, but nanoscale particles like this are known to scatter and obstruct the passage of heat through imperfectly understood quantum-mechanical processes.
"This logic represents a fundamental challenge to the principles on which, however imperfectly, world peace and stability have rested for the last 58 years, " Annan told the U.N.
It could be defects due to missing atoms, thermal vibrations of the crystal lattice, or even the boundaries between small, imperfectly formed crystals that make up the material.
Though it may be possible to adapt, often imperfectly, to some of the effects of climate change, Mr Victor argues that it is much harder to help others adapt.
Although the public-distribution system for food has collapsed in much of the country, the regime has tried, albeit imperfectly, to stamp out informal markets, the only succour for many.
The physiology and psychology of addiction are imperfectly understood, but if addictiveness is truly the criterion for a ban, then booze and cigarettes should be banned, not cannabis and ecstasy.
The signals that indicate where the copying machinery should start and stop, which is a good working definition of where on a chromosome a gene begins and ends, are imperfectly understood.
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That, in broad measure, Romney accomplished, if somewhat imperfectly.
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Protecting public services, such as the imperfectly reformed National Health Service (see article), is the other, for public services are disproportionately used by the poor, and their employees tend to vote Labour.
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But it is more plausible to blame the trial's flaws on a legal system that has only imperfectly made the leap from being venal and biddable under dictatorship towards judicial independence and due process.
They will be the first to remind that those who make ill-conceived solutions to imperfectly understood military problems, especially for political reasons, are never those who have to pay the price for their capriciousness.
But it is long past time to acknowledge that there is no moral equivalency between those that work to defend the innocent, though imperfectly, and those that defend the slaughter of innocents to justify political ends.
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Sometimes facts are wrong or imperfectly understood.
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The ex-Soviet republics another area where many people long for religion and older faiths are imperfectly organised could in principle be fertile ground, but in practice pickings have been thin: there are 19, 000 adherents in Russia and 10, 000 in Ukraine.
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Al Gore (D-TN), the Senate signalled that it, at least, had learned one of the most important lessons of the Gulf War: It is better to be defended, even imperfectly, against ballistic missile attack than to be defenseless against it.
Victor himself, although he grows up in a loving family, is imperfectly guided and becomes a disciple of discredited alchemists - the implication being that his considerable mental gifts have been imperfectly formed, which ultimately leads to his inappropriate use of them to create his imperfect "child".
Let us hope that the advances of recent times will reawaken a sense of awe and well-being, that we will rest easy in the knowledge that there is indeed a God and that we will rediscover and reinvigorate the principles--however imperfectly adhered to--that created this nation: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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