Serious design is imperfect.

If everything is imperfect in this imperfect world, love is most perfect in its perfect imperfection.

There is no perfect mustard or imperfect mustard.

Potatoes that are cosmetically imperfect, all going for pigs.

And you'll forgive me for my car's imperfect performance?

And yet there is still hope in this imperfect world.

But like all little novices, she's still imperfect in discipline.

Dear Lord... the more I try, the more imperfect I become.

Such forms of business organization and ownership provided especially effective institutional arrangements under conditions of scarce endowment of capital, entrepreneurship and skill and of inadequate and imperfect information.

For example, we now have many models of markets with imperfect competition or asymmetric information. These models have not made their predecessors, based on perfect competition, obsolete or irrelevant.

And so these folks had, very simply, the courage to be imperfect.

We should not look at this imperfect document through rose colored eyeglasses.

Certainly, there are some good economic reasons why lenders have such an insatiable appetite for debt. Imperfect information and difficulties in monitoring firms pose significant obstacles to idealized risk sharing instruments.

Obviously, the path to democracy is long and imperfect and different for every nation.

An imperfect war is limited as to places, persons, and things. Lawrence's Wheaton, 518).

Number two, it's imperfect it's not very glamorous, and it doesn't suddenly start and suddenly end.

28. Mr. Alabrune (France) said that he supported the draft Convention, which although imperfect was an acceptable compromise.

Surya Deva, United Nations Human Rights Norms for Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises An Imperfect Step in the Right Direction?

33. Mrs. Ekemezie (Nigeria) said she agreed with other delegations that the draft convention was imperfect, but it was nevertheless time to act.

But China s government and others that practice Internet censorship still want to reap the economic benefits of connectivity. That tension leads to imperfect compromises.

Indonesia is the largest Muslim country in the world, home to 230 million people and now it is the third largest democracy, however imperfect.

As Secretary of State Rice said last Saturday, the path to democracy is often long and imperfect, and it is different for every nation.

91. The Special Rapporteur is firmly convinced that the relevant international legal instruments are but imperfect tools for dealing with the issue of mercenaries.

No multilateral investment agreement will be able to address all of the institutional problems and market failures that prevent capital from flowing to developing countries. Some economists point to imperfect information, which precludes companies from considering the higher returns on investment available in the developing world.

Buchanan, along with Milton Friedman and many others, correctly pointed out that government failures are as numerous as market failures. So, even in areas like infrastructure or education, it is necessary to compare the benefits and costs of the imperfect fiscal and regulatory policies likely to be implemented by fallible, self interested officials with potentially imperfect market outcomes.

As humans, we are uniquely equipped to make decisions on the basis of ambiguous information in fact, we do it all the time. When we choose a career or a spouse in our private lives, or when a politician seizes an opportunity from a plethora of possibilities, the task at hand is always about making highly consequential decisions based on imperfect information.

Our job is to look and say, You know what? You're imperfect, and you're wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

The absolute number of complaints is, of course, an imperfect measure of the importance of NTBs across sectors, as the latter vary in economic size.

The report was based on a thematic approach, and it included indicators of achievement, which were admittedly imperfect but had been applied in good faith.

They relate chiefly to imperfect perceptions of the issues and insufficient legal and institutional capacity to translate understanding, where it does exist, into decisive action.

Of course, historical analogies are imperfect. Obviously, cyber technology is very different from nuclear technology, particularly because non governmental actors can exploit it much more easily.

Together The Jill and Julia, the Jill and Julia, the Jill and Julia Show. Sobule Why are all our heroes so imperfect? Why do they always bring me down? Why are all our heroes so imperfect? Statue in the park has lost his crown. William Faulkner, drunk and depressed. Sweeney Mmm.

So we're sort of all imperfect. And the question is well, if we're around here, you know, these little losses or gains might not be too bad.

53. In the light of the foregoing, the Special Rapporteur maintains that the relevant international legal instruments are but imperfect tools for dealing with the issue of mercenaries.

Well, Shannon took us, in the '40s, from here to here from a telephone being a speaker wire that degraded with distance to the Internet. And he proved the first threshold theorem, that shows if you add information and remove it to a signal, you can compute perfectly with an imperfect device.

Undertaken by politicians, an audit might be viewed as an opportunity to score political points or steer policy in self serving directions, with delicate information leaked in order to pressure policymakers. While monetary policy conducted by independent bureaucrats is imperfect, handing over effective control to congressmen with one eye on the next election would be infinitely worse.

It is to Phelps that we owe the theory of the natural unemployment rate a cornerstone of modern macroeconomic theory and economic policy that Milton Friedman rediscovered a year later, albeit heuristically. Phelps was also responsible for the island parable, which helped explain why monetary policy can have temporary real effects as a result of imperfect information.

But, having gone too far in deregulating markets, we must resist a natural tendency to overcompensate. While markets are imperfect, regulators are not only human but bureaucratic and subject to political influence.

As for the ship, it belonged to poor people working on the sea. I rendered it imperfect because behind them there was a king who was taking every ship by brutal force.

As for the ship, it belonged to poor people working on the sea. I rendered it imperfect because behind them there was a king who was taking every ship by brutal force.

We have seen elsewhere that, no matter how difficult and imperfect progress may be, with political will and the support of the international community, it is possible to move forward, away from conflict.

Research, development and deployment efforts must extend to the policy and financial areas as these are equally important and there is, as yet, imperfect understanding of how tools in these areas must also evolve.

4. Ms. Wensley (Australia) said that while her delegation acknowledged the legitimate concerns of certain delegations, it would like to see the admittedly imperfect draft Convention adopted at the current session without a vote.

Of course, each country will have to do its part, promoting short and long term agendas to combat inequalities, but the task will not be complete as long as asymmetries remain in a still imperfect world.

The MIT School, by contrast, argues that real world economies are afflicted by pervasive market failures, including imperfect competition and monopoly, externalities associated with problems like pollution, and an inability to supply public goods such as street lighting or national defense. Consequently, policy interventions that address market failures as well as widespread information imperfections and the non existence of many needed markets can make everyone better off.