"instrument" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They were then unwieldy, unreliable, and unproved instruments of warfare, and there was much doubt whether they had any function and value at all on the battlefield.
- They had expended most of their own MDMs on her destroyers, but her increasingly unreliable instruments could not tell her exactly how many they still had.
- Preventive diplomacy is a very unreliable instrument, as the inability of the original peace talks to stave off the crisis in Kosovo demonstrated.
- Self-reported studies are notoriously unreliable instruments, but, even so, the results were alarming.
- A high-quality, well-calibrated pipette in the hand of an uninterested or untrained operator is an unreliable instrument.
- One's brain can become an unreliable instrument, from fever or alcohol, but there is an ego, an id, a something, which struggles to make sane use of it.
- Sulu had admitted that he was flying the shuttle on a razor-thin safety margin, with unreliable instruments and unpredictable changes in altitude caused by Tlaoli's strange power fluxes.
- Men can construct a science with very few instruments, or with very plain instruments; but no one on earth could construct a science with unreliable instruments.
- And all because the human imagination was a thoroughly unreliable instrument, like a rubber ruler.
- The earliest periods of navigation within Portugal and Spain employed the use of crude, antiquated, and unreliable instruments.
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