Relying exclusively then on that particular line of form could be an unreliable yardstick. |
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There are areas within the report that we believe are based on untested and unreliable individual anecdotes. |
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Forecasters are notoriously unreliable at predicting things like the next wave of technological change. |
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Even so, the book almost works, because Victor is one of the most unreliable narrators I've met, and he may or may not be having us on. |
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Memory fades with time, and as a result the evidence people can provide on the stand becomes progressively more unreliable. |
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I miss her because she was capricious and unreliable, and because minis are the kind of car that make people smile. |
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Weapons training introduced the students to the Colt.45 and.38, and to the Sten gun, which was considered unreliable by some. |
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And as unreliable as official statistics are, there can be no doubt that far too many people are hard up. |
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At the moment islanders have to rely on a mixture of oil, solid fuel and small hydro schemes which are unreliable and expensive. |
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For the 700 or so hardy souls who live here, supplies of food, drink and clothing can, at times, seem unreliable. |
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Ford's 1957-59 Skyliner retractable hardtops are collectors' items today, but fussy period electrics made them unreliable. |
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Even a casual reading would suffice to demonstrate that Ross's account is wholly unreliable. |
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This week's people are likely to be unreliable as straws in the wind and playing mind games. |
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Reliable methods to predict ovulation are lacking, therefore predicting the fertile window is also unreliable. |
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Hyperventilation, palpitations, fear, and anxiety are unreliable diagnostic criteria, as these cases demonstrate. |
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His overdriven sound drops in and out suddenly, while behind him Previte's drums break up choppily as though heard via an unreliable connection. |
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The panel concluded that four tests should immediately be withdrawn from sale as they were misleading and unreliable. |
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If incorrectly configured, extremely complex technologies like operating systems, switches or databases are unreliable. |
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Mrs May claimed that evidence from the blonde-haired victim, who had had a baby since her ordeal, was unreliable. |
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The coherer was very finicky and unreliable in operation, so there was a vigorous search for an alternative. |
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Hopeful, but unreliable, natural methods of birth control included coitus reservatus and coitus interruptus. |
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I think everyone loves to hear how wonderful they are even if it's coming from an unreliable source. |
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These apologies can be interpreted as excuses for people being incompetent, unqualified, dumb, disorganised, and unreliable. |
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This man is incongruous, inconsistent and unreliable and is the latest saviour for the opposition. |
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Everyone I should have been able to count on, suddenly unreliable and inconstant, gone forever or drifting away. |
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Local factors complicated identities and made remoteness from the centre an unreliable guide to political complexion. |
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What inadequate lighting exists is unreliable, flickering off at the most inopportune moments. |
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Neither are unreliable to the point of forgetting an appointment completely. |
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There have been calls for the operators to hire conductors because unreliable ticket machines have led to angry passengers missing trams. |
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Slow calibration drift is a subtle and insidious source of unreliable instrument readings. |
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Please avoid general conjectures about when such unreliable assurances must doubtless have been made. |
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More than half of the young women use unreliable contraceptives or none at all. |
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They also contend, somewhat contradictorily, that figures showing ever higher awards are based on sketchy and unreliable information. |
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The body is fleshy, squeezable, and totally unreliable thanks to the proliferation of sharp-edges and cancers in the modern era. |
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I suspect that the joystick will prove to be fragile and unreliable, but I don't have any data to support that. |
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Though some defectors were known as unreliable, there were too few independent sources to contradict them. |
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I'm curious how that notoriously unreliable piece of engineering, the human body, will cause glitches in this system. |
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Clinical history can be unreliable as a diagnostic indicator of latex allergy because of confounding variables. |
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We may have a dilapidated library and an unreliable student computing service, but our staff are the best in New Zealand. |
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Yet he was unreliable, twice failing to act on the king's commission, and twice charged with embezzling customs money. |
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They fought vigorously, attempting to discredit the mass of unreliable testimony the prosecution had presented. |
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I had become so unreliable, unpredictable and frankly, an embarrassment they could do without. |
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It is here that she meets her second husband or partner, a dodgy, unreliable character. |
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They're way too comfortable making unreliable chrome-encrusted land yachts that people buy out of habit and fear. |
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He was a crablike manoeuvrer, crafty and unreliable, domineering towards followers, ruthless towards rivals. |
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Any such extrapolation based on one incident only is a most unscientific and unreliable basis for projections. |
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He has been ineffective and unreliable, missing most of five games because of injuries to his eye socket and his thigh. |
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Two of the four accused were dismissed early in the trial after the judge found her to be unreliable. |
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Chris Gayle and Wavell Hinds are both unreliable dashers, and West Indies can afford only one such player at the top. |
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Too conservative or too aggressive actuarial assumptions can produce unreliable results. |
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So, if you've got an old or unreliable boiler, it might be worth getting it checked right now. |
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Uncertainty will always remain, however, particularly when the evidence is unreliable. |
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Claire, a student radiographer who commutes regularly between Skipton and Bradford, found the trains to be very unreliable. |
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Research has shown, however, that recall is unreliable and rife with inaccuracies and biases. |
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With their limited lifting capacity and unreliable engines, airplanes could best be employed in carrying lightweight, high-value cargo. |
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Cornwallis hoped that many Loyalists would rally to the British cause, but in the event this support proved unreliable. |
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Although the Internet can be an excellent source of up to date and authoritative information much of it is unchecked and possibly unreliable. |
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No doubt my constant backing out of doing stuff has earned me a reputation among my friends for being an unreliable flake. |
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It is inexperienced, badly briefed, poorly trained, unintelligent, unreliable and simply not up to the task. |
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It also says the initial measurement for seven-year-olds is unreliable as it is marked by teachers rather than external examiners. |
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Their judgment was based on fresh evidence from a former boyfriend of the alleged victim which showed her evidence was unreliable. |
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He auditioned it before Stalin's musically illiterate arts committee by banging it out on a piano and singing in his own, unreliable voice. |
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It identified the length of the reporting chains as a factor in why so much intelligence was unreliable. |
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The recent evidence presented by him was vague, unreliable and only believable if you already shared his views. |
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I was forced to develop this recipe when my source for bialy became unreliable. I had become addicted to these as breakfast food. |
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Contrary to what Bridget Jones's Diary suggests, e-mail has proved an equally unreliable medium for billets-doux. |
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The defense argued that police mishandled blood drops from the crime scene, making the results of DNA testing unreliable. |
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Or is he an unreliable witness on accounting issues that are far from black-and-white? |
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The more I delved into sifting the reliable from the unreliable, the deeper I dropped into the well of discovery. |
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I've had it with all you unreliable, inconsistent, and detestable blockheads. |
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Her outfits and blokish humour are viewed with muted approval, although even she is eventually portrayed as self-serving and unreliable. |
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Life has fallen into a languid pattern, my voice unreliable and my blood count chronically low and I tend to spend a lot of time asleep. |
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Unreasonable politics and unreliable infrastructure are not however what worry the Khonoma village elders as much as the unaccustomed attention. |
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In addition, I found the claimant's evidence generally to be unconvincing and unreliable. |
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I found his account of events, where uncorroborated, to be unreliable to a quite significant degree. |
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He used people, he was sleazy and unreliable and he was not what you would call a nice person. |
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Giving excuses too often undermines a person's reputation by making him seem self-absorbed, unreliable or unknowledgeable. |
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Our country is one of the most distrusted, unliked, unreliable and discredited of all nations on earth. |
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To tell you the truth, I've never really been aware of them but, being the unobservant sort, I'm unreliable in such things. |
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Why get riled if this week's citizens are aggravatingly unreliable or irritatingly unpunctual? |
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Film stars are notorious for being unreliable, unpunctual, and full of themselves. |
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The narrators are often strangely limited third-person or unreliable first-person narrators, or there are multiple, shifting narrators. |
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And the story is told by a possibly slightly unreliable narrator, which is a nice touch. |
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It says the numbers would be too unreliable because relatives would not contact them if their loved ones had been found. |
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The Railtrack work has to continue, and that makes for unreliable timetables. |
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But word of mouth is often unreliable and by the time they reached town, all supplies had run out. |
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These creatures have the reputation of being smelly, vicious, spiteful and unreliable. |
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But worst of all the judge's ruling makes a martyr out of a thoroughly unreliable journalist. |
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For we will not be able to continue if we are unaffordable, or unreliable in broad terms. |
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The July meeting which should have been held in a garden was again inside due to the unreliable summer weather. |
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A few curse the memory of them as clunky, unstable, slow, unreliable and inherently unsafe. |
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The traders had complained the system was unreliable and said they had no proof that it had discouraged crime. |
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Such knowledge as management did possess was vague or unreliable and seldom committed to writing. |
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Dozens of patients had their operations postponed because of the unreliable operating tables. |
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It is difficult to blame people for spending holidays abroad, when the weather here is so unreliable. |
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The experience of abuse often makes people difficult, all too easy to smear as unreliable witnesses. |
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By contrast the state markets were unreliable with regard to delivery times, quality, and choice. |
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What a pity that Ms Evans' information comes from such an unreliable source. |
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Too often, authorities say, the science is unproven, the analyses unsound, and the experts unreliable. |
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In relation to Infliction and intelligence material generally Mr. McGrory said it was unreliable, unchecked and unsourced. |
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Where the distinction between reliable and unreliable information is unclear, quackery, soothsaying, and magical thinking thrive. |
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Until recently, delivery to the mainland was at times unreliable but a new courier service is in place and next day delivery is guaranteed. |
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Moreover, rainfall is highly variable, and the start and end of the two rainy seasons are unreliable. |
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What I remember is that the film starred Will Fyffe, whose big black dog was rather an unreliable brute that was suspected of sheep worrying. |
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He warned that not all poorly sorted rocks were true glacial tillites and thus were unreliable indicators of past climate and continental positioning. |
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Even as we talked, the unreliable power supply was affecting the lighting. |
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Mushroom identification software is unreliable, and mycologists are usually not available, so activated charcoal remains the best way to start treatment. |
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But Herndon is a most unreliable narrator in all things about Mary, since they never got along. |
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Because of unreliable babysitters, I am often absent or late for work. |
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Unfortunately, with time travel being so unreliable for humans, he can only create a cyborg duplicate of himself and trust that it gets the job done. |
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What is the difference between peddling a stock or a product as having value, when in reality, insiders know what is being sold is unreliable, unsound and unworthy? |
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Among the first measures that is to be initiated, according to highly unreliable sources, was finalized during a secret telecon with India's Deputy Prime Minister. |
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Beware of intuition and gut instincts, they are completely unreliable. |
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It is a highly tendentious, obviously partisan and unreliable document. |
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Even in Port-au-Prince, the capital of the overcentralized country, public services are unreliable at best. |
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However, sundials are a surprisingly unreliable means of telling the time. |
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Because existing spectrometers and polarimeters make use of mechanical scanning methods, they are unreliable and require a long time to acquire complete data sets. |
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However, base rates are inherently ambiguous, unreliable and unstable. |
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Veteran commanders consider any unit that has not been blooded to be unreliable, because even well-trained soldiers can react unpredictably to the horrors of combat. |
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It has to be people who accept the strange privations of island life, the unreliable transport and the lack of shops and other staples of modern life. |
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Seaweed farming was an important part of the Japanese farmers' diets and after suffering years of unreliable harvests they were facing destitution. |
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West was born in 1893, the daughter of a beautiful and indulgent mother and an unreliable macho father, and from her earliest days she evinced utter self-assurance. |
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All of which was a tad harsh on his players after a sodden day's play, so soft and slippy as to be an unreliable indicator of the teams' prospects in the months ahead. |
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She took to the London stage again but this time her lateness and unreliable vocals elicited cat-calls, jeers and even projectiles from angry audiences. |
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But Winter is dead, Clapton is tired of life on the road, and King unreliable in concert. |
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Testimony from these fellow criminals has much more weight in court than victim testimony, which can be unreliable, says Clarke. |
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Polling has proven notoriously unreliable so far this election season. |
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In those months, Plath lived above a slightly dotty old man who was one of the unreliable narrators of the Plath legend and the last person to see her alive. |
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An unreliable boyfriend at the best of times, Shaun persistently exasperates Liz by insisting they spend all their waking hours in the Winchester Arms, their local boozer. |
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He wanted to go south, but his van was unreliable and he was flat broke. |
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The last 24 hours was redolent of the wider campaign, uncertain, fraught, divisive, full of brinkmanship with deeply unreliable signals emerging from both sides. |
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She has a high-pitched reedy voice that doesn't stretch into the corners of these dark hued songs as much as shimmer above them like an unreliable narrator. |
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The only thing people like less than a blabbermouth is an unreliable one! |
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For the snow-making industry, the real thing, falling silently from the sky in huge crystals and transfiguring the landscape, is so unreliable it is almost a nuisance. |
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The unreliable narrator is a staple of recent psychological thrillers, from Gillian Flynn to S.J. Watson to Tana French. |
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It is about to become a very long, heavy, unwieldy and unreliable train, one that the traditional Franco-German engine will not be able to pull alone. |
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The double agent remains the most prized, the most feared, and the most unreliable weapon in the espionage armory. |
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My body feels older somehow, like a battered and slightly unreliable car. |
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The results played right into the hands of those who wanted to portray the opposition as unreliable. |
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The trouble with heliotherapy, for those who live in northern Europe, is that there is just not enough sunshine or, more precisely, strong natural sunlight is too unreliable. |
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It's patently designed to pour scorn on the English judicial process and courtroom procedure as unreliable systems, leading guiltless men to end up in prison. |
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The process was a maddening tangle of unreliable tracking, delays, and confusion, the family member said. |
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Excerpts of his video statements fill the highlight reels when unreliable confessions are the subject of TV programs. |
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Its gossipy anecdotes are lively, memorable, and at times gloriously unreliable. |
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The law, therefore, is unreliable sociological litmus paper. |
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It is true that such rough measures of valuation are notoriously unreliable market timing tools, but they can be an indication of stock market risk. |
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In the experiments described in the last two sections, we purposely made achromatic intensity unreliable, to prove that moths used the chromatic aspect of colour. |
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Then, it was accepted that a new car would be unreliable and poorly made. |
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Leaving aside the practical problem of how on earth he could force them to stay, let alone be productive labour, the source for this claim is entirely unreliable. |
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Likewise, observing the appearance of feeding tube aspirate is also unreliable because gastric contents can look similar to respiratory secretions. |
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The familiar good, bad, and ugly, the reliable and the unreliable, are being swallowed up by the earthquake. |
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The evidence for them was far too unreliable to have any credibility. |
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Archaic walkie-talkies are so unreliable that officers have to buy phone credit themselves so they can stay in touch with headquarters. |
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This method was eventually to fail as the localized variations from general magnetic trends make the method unreliable. |
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Editions published after 1623 are unreliable and contain unauthentic material, especially the bowdlerized edition of 1636 by John Philipot. |
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No, I'm not. That would only make sense if the grid power were persistently unreliable, which it isn't. Nor am I using a suicide cable. |
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Sports economists tend to throw cold water on such studies, saying they often rely on unreliable or exaggerated data. |
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In Toronto, we have underserviced neighbourhoods, subsidized routes into the city's fringes, and unreliable service in the core. |
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Warehousing was vital in a time when storms, poor harvests and wars made supplies unreliable. |
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The moral to this anomaly may be that Zeitgeister are unreliable because afflicted with tunnel vision. |
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Some even have rooftop reservoirs for water, as the water supply is also unreliable. |
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These results demonstrated that growth rate determinations from annuli measurements are unreliable unless environmental conditions remain static. |
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Could you talk a minute about the notion of being an unreliable narrator? |
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This sends a strong message that Canadian broadcasting regulation is impetuous and unreliable, ' said Kevin Crull, President of Bell Media. |
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The Poles can be as unreliable as anyone, considering good planning and organization unnecessary when plain improvization does just as well. |
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The M36 fragmentation grenade had been in use since World War Two and was notoriously unreliable. |
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The reports are often unreliable, however, leading to confusion. |
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When they were young we had a cold, unreliable but much-loved old campervan that we took on family holidays. |
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When it comes to not being trusted, he is the slipperiest, most unreliable snake at Westminster. |
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When prodded, Polanski proves a rather unreliable critic of his own films. |
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Moreover, the GAO found the states' accounting of undistributed funds to be woefully inaccurate and unreliable. |
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This is based on the decree mentioned in the Augustan History, an unreliable mix of fact and fiction. |
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Diego de Valera, whose information Ross regards as unreliable, compiled his work from letters of Spanish merchants. |
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Figures for casualties during this period are unreliable, but some attempt has been made to provide rough estimates. |
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Figures for Scotland are more unreliable and should be treated with greater caution. |
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They say he is a poor judge of character considering all the unreliable friends he has made. |
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However, seed drills of this and successive types were both expensive and unreliable, as well as fragile. |
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It was credited, uncritically, well into the 16th century, but is now considered historically unreliable. |
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His writing style incorporates a number of storytelling techniques such as flashbacks, shifting points of view and unreliable narrators. |
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Tenants have complained for years that the elevators are unsafe and unreliable, often stalling midfloor or refusing to work at all. |
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They were provided mainly with unreliable captured equipment and lacked motorised transport. |
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This claim was based on documents provided by the CIA and the British government and were later found to be unreliable. |
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Only 4 per cent considered using renewable sources as negative since they can be unreliable and expensive. |
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They have also been seen as economical for use in poor countries, where batteries may be expensive and mains power unreliable or unavailable. |
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Bristol's bus service has been criticised as unreliable and expensive, and in 2005 FirstGroup was fined for delays and safety violations. |
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Samples from interlayered limestone in lava flows provided unreliable palynological data. |
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Even microfossil data can be unreliable if there are hiatuses in the fossil record. |
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These troops were regarded as unreliable by regular armies, so they were mainly used as sentries and for minor duties. |
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Measuring crocodile age is unreliable, although several techniques are used to derive a reasonable guess. |
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Rainfall is very unreliable and erratic in the Sahara as it may vary considerably year by year. |
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Generally, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army's figures are unreliable, with figures ranging anywhere from 15,000 to as many as 100,000 fighters. |
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While it is obvious that Caesar used this account for his own gain, it is not to say that the De Bello Gallico is at all unreliable. |
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Both authors, however, depended on unreliable sources and placed Crux in the wrong position. |
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The houses have backup generators, because the electrical grid in Haiti is unreliable. |
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It was rejected by its operators, who claimed that it was unreliable. |
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Despite the car's reputation for durability, it turned out to be the most unreliable car, suffering multiple drivetrain and suspension breakdowns right from the start. |
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As a result of this loss, there are gaps in Roman history, which are filled by unreliable works, such as the Historia Augusta and other books from obscure authors. |
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In reaching his conclusion Ritson relied or gave weight to a number of unreliable sources, such as the Robin Hood plays of Anthony Munday, and the Sloane Manuscript. |
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Ancient sources, ranging from the unreliable Historia Augusta to Herodian, speak of Maximinus as a man of significantly greater size than his contemporaries. |
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Scent can be unreliable when the ground is too dry or covered in snow. |
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In the first half of the season, the Jordan 198 car was off the pace and unreliable until improvements in performance from the Canadian Grand Prix. |
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As all this could be unreliable, Chichester needed an alternative. |
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Torpor is especially useful for microbats, as they use a large amount of energy while active, depend upon an unreliable food source, and have a limited ability to store fat. |
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But, in Montreal, located to the southwest in zone 5, it is sometimes difficult to cultivate plants adapted to the zone because of the unreliable snow cover. |
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When evaluating information published by sources with unreliable track records, make sure to check the accuracy of the information against other, reliable sources. |
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And if his utterances over a sundowner glass of South African wine have been reported to Rome, this can only indicate delators at work, as unreliable as they are despicable. |
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Those who had used the calendar method, spermicides, emergency contraception, withdrawal or douching were classified as having used an unreliable method. |
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Professional photographer Amina learns from her somewhat unreliable mother that her father, brain surgeon Thomas Eapen, has be talking to deceased relatives. |
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What readers are offered in The Star of Algiers is an Algeria focalized through the mind of a talented yet disoriented and unreliable protagonist. |
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If the amount you're trying to measure is below your LOQ that means that the value of the instrument reading is highly variable and more unreliable at that level. |
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These traditional file-sharing protocols were designed to share files over a local network, but perform poorly and prove unreliable in a WAN setting. |
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This estimate is completely unreliable! It was produced by a wild-ass. |
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Patrick, for all his brutal truth telling, is an unreliable narrator. |
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Thus, wild and underutilized legumes have emerged as cost-effective alternatives to the unreliable supply of animal-based protein in developing nations. |
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One school of thought within historical scholarship has suggested that all of these accounts are inherently unreliable, and might be entirely fictional. |
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Virtue is unreliable because people have different capacities. |
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He notes that mercenary troops were used too often and proved unreliable. |
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Historian David Henige has argued that many population figures are the result of arbitrary formulas selectively applied to numbers from unreliable historical sources. |
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Early European reports of slavery throughout Africa in the 1600s are unreliable because they often conflated various forms of servitude as equal to chattel slavery. |
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Hyponeura, along with Diargia Calvert, was synonomized with Argia after it was determined that venational characters are unreliable for species distinction. |
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Rice was usually bartered for luxury goods and armaments from westerners, but rice cultivation was mainly for the domestic market and rice export was evidently unreliable. |
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According to the Historia Augusta, a usually unreliable source, he was prosecuted for adultery during this time but the case was ultimately dismissed. |
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Wing guns were tried but the unreliable weapons available required frequent clearing of jammed rounds and misfires and remained impractical until after the war. |
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Parental time with children is one area in which data reported in stylized form are considered unreliable because of a strong social desirability bias. |
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The introduction of lifts in 2010 made the taxi rank and underground station accessible from the concourse, though customers found them unreliable and frequently broken down. |
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While collecting became a pastime for many amateurs, the labels associated with these early egg collections made them unreliable for the serious study of bird breeding. |
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Convinced that his army was unreliable, he sent orders to disband it. |
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However, the archaeological record could indicate that while his work is thought to be unreliable, Jordanes' story was based on an oral tradition with some basis in fact. |
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