In those circumstances the arrest, though subsequently found to be unlawful, could not be said to be capricious or arbitrary. |
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There is a pattern of arbitrary executions, the systematic rape of women and girls and people being abducted. |
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But the poem is mostly static, because the sequencing of lines, despite the abecedarian scheme, feels inadvertently arbitrary. |
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Though critics saw him as quick-tempered, harsh, abrupt, and arbitrary, practically everyone recognized his genius as a chief of staff. |
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The only thing that stands between us and the deep abyss of arbitrary executive power is the Rule of Law. |
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I have found that there was not an arbitrary detention and also that there was not a warrantless search. |
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It may even be that the House may find it necessary to place some arbitrary limit on awards of damages that are made by way of punishment. |
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It's entirely arbitrary in some ways, but grief is not a simple process that you switch on or off. |
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Of course it would be arbitrary of me to accuse the shop owner of putting on an act or simply making a show. |
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The variables selected in Tables 1 and 2 are somewhat arbitrary, and should not necessarily be given equal weighting. |
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The High Court said while granting maintenance, some formula or yardstick must be adopted and it must not be whimsical or arbitrary. |
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The chief problem with katharevousa was that it was an arbitrary mixture of ancient and modern features. |
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The following films deal with rebellion against arbitrary or repressive authority. |
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On the contrary, the relationship between signifier and signified is arbitrary. |
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Just when one thinks the Justices might zig, they zag, but whichever way they turn, their reasoning seems increasingly arbitrary and contrived. |
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On the other hand the photographer in a similar two dimensional format, sets out to portray a likeness of the sitter within an arbitrary moment. |
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The use of the severity and rarity criteria has meant that arbitrary and unjust decisions have been applied to many claims. |
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Capricious and arbitrary as the system might be, it serves several contradictory needs at once. |
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Citizens, too, began to complain that the economic system was bafflingly arbitrary. |
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The numbering of years is a cultural artifact based on some rather arbitrary decisions made along the way. |
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But Plato tells us that the ethical laws cannot be the arbitrary whims of personalized gods. |
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The historical reason for this time limit was based on arbitrary precedent. |
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It has been said more than once that 10 seems a rather arbitrary number, and it has not been clear how the authors of the law arrived at it. |
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This system was so arbitrary and irrational that it resulted in large numbers of poor persons being excluded. |
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Make sure the decision about who goes is not arbitrary or based on favoritism. |
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Why couldn't people see that tradition, while rather arbitrary, was the only fair way to do things? |
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Any system of classification is arbitrary and thus frail, subject to the contradictions of experience. |
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This numbering system is an arbitrary designation based on small amino acid sequence differences. |
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They become a matter of subjective and arbitrary whim if they are cut off from collective deliberations. |
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It also meant freedom from arbitrary power, which by 1792 was being routinely identified as the power of any king. |
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Curbs were placed on the arbitrary exercise of power and steps were taken to give some measure of regularity to the legal system. |
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In the fourteenth century, two parallel movements were under way to enforce Magna Carta's curbs on arbitrary royal authority. |
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The very idea of the rule of law is partly derived from the conclusion that it is reasonable and morally good to limit arbitrary power. |
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So too, one might think that an organized police force poses less of a threat of arbitrary power than a volunteer force. |
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To put those forms of authority on the same register as the state and-worse-subject them all to the arbitrary power of the state is not helpful. |
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He was an eloquent opponent of the exercise of arbitrary power by governments the world over. |
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These kings have not unlimited or arbitrary power, and the generals do more by example than by authority. |
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By the time of the Revolution, the standing army had become a symbol of repressive authority and arbitrary rule. |
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They have, I believe, lost their way and taken a path that can only lead back to the supremacy of arbitrary power. |
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How you can tell whether a binary number of arbitrary size is divisible by 10 without looking at the whole number? |
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In contemporary frameworks, the rule of generalization invokes a singular term, the arbitrary constant introduced into the text. |
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The coupling of experience to words is arbitrary, just as there's some arbitrariness to the coupling of one word with another. |
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Like criterion-referenced testing generally, both scoring rubrics are thoroughly arbitrary. |
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The connection between signifier and signified is loosened and exposed as arbitrary, allowing for alternative interpretations of the sense. |
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So maybe the problem is thinking sins are relative to some arbitrary and ad hoc rulebook, rather than to our very nature and being. |
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The assignment of objects across cultures to any one of these categories ranged from the arbitrary and humorous to the disturbing and offensive. |
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Arsinoe's Greek nature, which, unlike Fiodor's Russianness, had seemed somewhat arbitrary, becomes necessary. |
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The salary discrimination permits the superiors to fix the salaries of their employees on an arbitrary basis. |
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In the name of international labor standards, arbitrary and inflexible trade sanctions will be imposed on Third World countries. |
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This could be used as a web-based look up table for predicting malariological indices from arbitrary field data. |
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But it would be an arbitrary theme, like when David Byrne made his mambo record. |
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In the absence of these measures a legal ban on strike looks somewhat arbitrary. |
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In general, the distinction between matter and antimatter is somewhat arbitrary. |
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Because there is no arbitrary third party, or court system with the backing of an enforcement agency, laws may be broken with impunity. |
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In the first place, a means test constitutes an arbitrary method for the distribution of losses. |
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The system does not deal with arbitrary mechatronic systems but analyzes electrical subsystems. |
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An algorithm for deciding whether or not an arbitrary tile tessellates the plane could then be constructed as follows. |
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Exploiting this vulnerability will lead to denial of service, execution of arbitrary code, or the disclosure of sensitive information. |
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In other words, speech sounds are merely the arbitrary tokens whereby linguistic exchange is carried out. |
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Some demand arbitrary reductions in management staff, believing there are too many chiefs and not enough Indians. |
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The printer who sticks to a standard is usually supposed to be arbitrary, autocratic, wilful, conceited, and generally toplofty. |
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In further papers, published in 1936, he defined cohomology groups for an arbitrary locally compact topological space. |
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The moral, social, political, and legal order must bend to the individual definition of truth, no matter how willful or arbitrary. |
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And the deaths flowing from natural tragedies such as this seem very arbitrary, unfair and unacceptable. |
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Although the date of the millennium is arbitrary, it has undeniably affected how people behave. |
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It is straightforward, for example, to describe arbitrary patterns of transitiveness, functionality, etc., in Common Logic. |
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These fronts travel at constant speeds and can deliver signals to arbitrary distances. |
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Du Bois's images of a white-looking biracial girl demonstrate the arbitrary nature of visual racial classification. |
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You're either sick one day or eight, but a set number of sick days strikes me as arbitrary and dumb. |
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Despite a media blackout on the province, reports continued to filter out of extra judicial murders, arbitrary arrest and torture. |
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Analysis of heterochronic processes associated with sexual dimorphism requires the arbitrary choice of a reference morph in the dimorphic pair. |
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In order to be able to do this, we needed to be free from all kinds of arbitrary power, including majoritarian tyranny. |
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Thus, Anselm's God is not an arbitrary monarch or a tyrant with no accountability and with a bloodthirsty desire for punishment or payment. |
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This act represents a case of police power that is unaccountable and arbitrary. |
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The first category is oppressive, arbitrary or unconstitutional action by the servants of the government. |
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A thought begins to form, that whoever named the parts and actions of a boat did so in an arbitrary and uncreative manner. |
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Doctors are contesting the regulations as undemocratic, arbitrary and Draconian. |
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They'd also make a few arbitrary, unreviewed, undiscussed decisions about other stuff they'd keep. |
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The myth consists in the belief that only deflation entails unequal and arbitrary burdens for the citizens. |
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However, given that all three slopes differed significantly, it seemed arbitrary as to which slope to select. |
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This agreement of 1215 was the chief defence against unjust and arbitrary rule in England. |
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My claim that noun gender lacks a symbolic function should not be taken to imply that noun gender is utterly arbitrary and unmotivated. |
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The concepts of family and need central to his ideas are so smartly expressed through the graphic images that nothing feels arbitrary. |
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So we would have to choose some essentially arbitrary cut-off point at which we would freeze the data, to provide a snapshot for our analysis. |
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It's just that the definition of either half of that primal sentence is, of necessity, arbitrary. |
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Pork and the white man seems like an arbitrary summation of the sum of evil to me, but it's their story and they were sticking to it, stridently. |
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Those who do not speak an Indian language may not be blamed for this arbitrary vowel substitution. |
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This threshold, however, is still arbitrary and has never been evaluated, let alone validated by appropriate methods. |
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There were Dorothy look-alikes inspired by The Wizard of Oz, witches with broomsticks, and numerous bits of arbitrary, minimally edited business. |
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The coordinates in the projection of an arbitrary triangle are determined by the ratios between spherical angles. |
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For Byzantinists, the selection of 1557 as a terminal date for this exhibition seems arbitrary. |
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Anthropology Professor Dianna Shandy is a specialist on the Nuer, a group entangled in the net of Sudan's arbitrary colonial borders. |
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Freedom cannot be portioned out by government officials in arbitrary doses in order to build what the statist mentalities call a Great Society. |
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The team will be hard pushed to crack this scam as the practice appears to have been arbitrary. |
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In any event, I reserve the right to be arbitrary and capricious in choosing which comments to delete because they cross the line. |
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Please allow me to maintain my self-image as capricious, arbitrary and unfair. |
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I have a strange, queasy feeling that I can never impart to him about how capricious and arbitrary a regime like this can be. |
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Whatever the cause, it would appear arbitrary and capricious to limit the number of years students are given to learn English. |
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The purpose of the provision in paragraph 18.15 is to prevent arbitrary or capricious searches. |
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Having laws you're not going to enforce is an invitation for capricious and arbitrary prosecution. |
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In using the police power in this broad way, municipalities can avoid charges of arbitrary and capricious acts. |
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Copies of the memorandum went to the membership of appeals committees that had found the provost's decisions to be arbitrary and capricious. |
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But Powell's fatalistic words do convey a career military man's appreciation of the arbitrary and capricious nature of war. |
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Your Honour, from my perspective I am trying to understand the arbitrary and capricious argument that my learned friends are putting forward. |
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Georgia, the Supreme Court temporarily ended the death penalty in America, deeming its application arbitrary and capricious. |
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Targeting aid resources without adequate awareness of the size of the population involved in illicit crops is capricious and arbitrary. |
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The story is autobiographical, and the tyrannical, captious, arbitrary, and selfish landowner is the author's mother, Varvara Petrovna Turgeneva. |
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This is with respect to some arbitrary origin and in fact is more general than the standard Cartesian coordinates. |
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There is nothing like an arbitrary set of symbols to fix the operations of the mind. |
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The categorizations are somewhat arbitrary, but our analysis tends toward conservative estimation of the number of genes showing these patterns. |
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People merely obey arbitrary commands and orders, but they respond quickly and usually give extra effort for leaders who genuinely care for them. |
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In effect, these measures outlaw political campaigns against arbitrary or illegal detentions. |
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It espoused ideas of the freeborn Englishman resisting the arbitrary powers of his masters and praying in his nonconformist chapel. |
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The very summariness of the trial tells us that justice in Russia is arbitrary. |
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People should use the internet to inform their purchasing rather than some superannuated arbitrary knees-up. |
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As a result a maliciously constructed message might allow hackers to execute arbitrary commands on a target system with superuser privilege. |
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To brand it as arbitrary is a haughty act of intellectual hubris, thin in substance and contemptuous of our ancestors. |
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Comity, however, is an ill-defined concept, and for that reason can be arbitrary in its application. |
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I learned that God, the distant doer of unpredictable and arbitrary magic failed to engage or enliven my soul. |
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The resulting illegality appears to me to be of an arbitrary and technical nature, not involving anything which is inherently wrong. |
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Cultural figures go out of fashion for all sorts of sometimes quite arbitrary reasons. |
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Its boundaries have become blurred, reduced to a completely useless and arbitrary sign along the fast lane or the shoulder of a highway. |
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There can be real, though arbitrary, incompatibilities between programs, which will cause problems from time to time. |
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You can add an arbitrary constant to the indefinite integral, and still get the same derivative. |
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Unsurprisingly, given the risk of arbitrary expropriation and extortion, the ordinary people responded by living in studied indigence. |
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Such assumptions, indissociable from a danger of arbitrary power, would have serious consequences which the court cannot overlook. |
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As such, strategies that tend to compartmentalize individuals into arbitrary categories are not likely to be effective. |
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Numerous additional workers are ruled ineligible for any benefits at all under arbitrary regulations that vary from state to state. |
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Are the laws of acceleration and composition of forces nothing but arbitrary conventions? |
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He studied the Riemann zeta function, and its extension to arbitrary number fields, discovering important results. |
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The flag is at the same time a strong protest against arbitrary actions, injustice, and sociopolitical and sociocultural insubordination. |
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As an innocent man, his own government consented to his arbitrary detention and torture by a foreign power. |
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A conventionalist claims that scientific laws or principles are not empirical descriptions of reality but arbitrary conventions or stipulations. |
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Mathematicians sometimes say that A is an arbitrary isosceles triangle, but all they mean is that A could be any such triangle. |
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And who should know better than he that it is craven to belittle a man's service because it didn't extend over some arbitrary stretch of time? |
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The report is critical of the inhumane treatment of children in arbitrary detention and calls into question our commitment to human rights. |
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Besides, any genetic tree that places English more than one node away from Frisian is too arbitrary to be credible. |
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To process arbitrary speech, you need a very powerful and power-hungry processor. |
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Thus, an object's provenience can be stated as being 30m north, 22m east, and 3.5m down from an arbitrary fixed point on the site. |
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These laws lead to arbitrary arrests and detentions for long periods without any preliminary trial. |
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To address the foregoing question, we applied the arbitrary primed polymerase chain reaction technique. |
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But I never let my personal loyalties delude me into thinking that the determination of winners is anything but arbitrary. |
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He knows the exercise of arbitrary power by studio heads, easily comparable to Mafia godfathers. |
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Obeying no law, despotic authority was arbitrary, and its animating spirit was fear. |
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I do admire in that work your condemnation of arbitrary power and despotism as destructive of freedom. |
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Is it implied that God is just the highest in a pyramid of arbitrary powers indifferent to justice? |
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They seek to construct parochial and arbitrary distinctions between the civic and the human community. |
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Why draw arbitrary lines of distinction and value in different spheres of work? |
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I downvote you for being an ignorant, overreacting, emotional wreck over arbitrary ranking. |
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Since we all work equally hard, and with equal skill, the inequality is again due to differences in the bounty of nature, which we believe to be morally arbitrary. |
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There is nothing arbitrary or accidental about the incidence of disease. |
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In this case, the higher powers are film censors, whether philistine Senators or the timorous, arbitrary ethicists of the MPAA, valiantly guarding us from ourselves. |
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Still, here we are, and it seems to me arbitrary to accept the challenges of religious pluralism and historical skepticism about Jesus while ignoring postmodern nihilism. |
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But along with that safety, we'll face arbitrary and unappealable decisions on who can fly in a commercial airliner, rent a truck, borrow money, or even stay out of jail. |
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After the white oak the actual ranking of eastern champions becomes somewhat arbitrary because successive champs are often separated by only a few points. |
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Her snobbism was arbitrary, and her prejudices were restricted to the rules and laws of her own personal kingdom. |
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Police officers cannot take arbitrary measures based on suspicion. |
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These distinctions may seem somewhat arbitrary, but they highlight fundamentally different attitudes toward plant ecology, to science in general and to botany in particular. |
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And his audiences react in this way because MacLennan's ideas sometimes seem a mishmash, an arbitrary collection of the lost and found, flotsam and jetsam. |
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The increasing confidence of the Irish labour force means that employees are less inclined to tolerate biased, arbitrary or capricious employer decisions. |
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But that will be cold comfort to the millions of children who have been hit hard by these arbitrary policies, shamelessly justified in the name of school safety. |
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There is no place for the purely arbitrary or mean parent or educator, but submission to human authority is necessary for us all, including our children. |
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Because measurements of nonspecific airway responsiveness are log-normally distributed in the population, an arbitrary cutoff has been selected in defining an abnormal test. |
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In that event the basis for the exercise of power is absent, just as if it were shown that the opinion was arbitrary, capricious, irrational, or not bona fide. |
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The workings of the system were entirely capricious and arbitrary. |
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For one, the assignment of specialties in the military is fairly arbitrary. |
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But why should we give that arbitrary power to any civil servant? |
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We removed the spaces between words and inserted arbitrary line breaks. |
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Thus, a telnet connection between two computers will almost certainly include two IP addresses, an arbitrary port on the client, and the well-known port 23 on the server. |
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Yet the government, having arbitrarily detained him for two years, is coercing him into giving up his citizenship by the threat of further arbitrary detention. |
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The dividing line between the languages we call Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish is linguistically arbitrary but politically and culturally relevant. |
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It is arbitrary to impose a sentence that can neither be justified on preventive grounds nor justified on the basis of retributive proportionality. |
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The regular intake of three or more analgesic tablets daily or narcotics or ergotamine on more than two days a week are suggested arbitrary limits. |
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Time and time again, we see women being asked to ace some arbitrary test in order to be deemed model victims. |
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Third, the measures of recovery include a number of arbitrary limits that cause persons dissimilarly disadvantaged to receive essentially the same benefits. |
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But, sadly, a climate of opinion is being created in which facts are discounted in favour of fantasies, arbitrary allegations and wild apprehensions. |
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In fact, table manners are all the more potent an identifier for being completely arbitrary. |
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If not, what is to prevent the exercise of excessive or arbitrary power? |
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There is no way to remove arbitrary elements from either a binary or a ternary sequence with a guarantee that two identical digits won't be brought together. |
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I'm here to remind you that these are arbitrary distinctions. |
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The truly religious, following the logic of submission to political and moral ideals, and to the arbitrary will of God, are terrifying to us and almost incomprehensible. |
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The present system too readily transforms the rule of law into an apologia for arbitrary presidential power. |
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The truth is that Judd is really just picking an arbitrary number since there is no script. |
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Pinker is not a self-appointed enforcer of arbitrary rules, and he has little patience for purists, prigs, and pedants. |
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Gandley feels that any distinction between pro-anorexia sites and some healthy living sites are arbitrary. |
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Thus a major new avenue of arbitrary government power would be opened up. |
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The use of gobos to project different shapes onto the walls behind the actors seemed arbitrary, as if they just used whatever was left in the kit. |
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The first past the post system always unfairly rewards the largest parties, but the results become particularly arbitrary when their share of the vote is relatively small. |
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The arguments presented by the HFEA in court, and those made by judges in deciding in favour of the HFEA, contained a number of inconsistencies and arbitrary judgements. |
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Darwin, who viewed natural selection as a process producing slow anagenetic changes along lines of descent, thought that species were arbitrary slices. |
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Moreover, in this process of hysterical conversion, symptoms are not arbitrary and meaningless phenomena but complex symbolizations of repressed psychological experiences. |
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Their tragic flaw, of course, was the relatively arbitrary assignment of these functions to areas, and the belief in the corresponding shape of the skull. |
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There is wide agreement that the calculation of utility costs is nontransparent and often arbitrary, and that the government is not interested in demonopolizing the industry. |
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It recommends that a radical new funding formula is devised to redress the balance, based on actual crime figures, not an arbitrary three-way split between the divisions. |
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On some level, I have been able to detach myself from them, and to see them as a condition which is every bit as arbitrary and transient as a common cold. |
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But rather than any symbology, it is the demotic, arbitrary nature of Miro's creativity, and the sense it creates of a violent stripping away, that is most impressive. |
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Because we know that the writ of habeas corpus provides one of the most significant protections of human freedom against arbitrary government action ever created. |
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So, taking that admittedly arbitrary target, we still have some way to go. |
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His work is in some ways truer to the nature of film than the more materialist British work, in that film color is itself somewhat arbitrary and transmutable. |
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They clearly seek to exercise power in whimsical and arbitrary ways. |
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Wage floors are an arbitrary act, set without regard to productivity. |
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Rather than appearing as esoteric ideas or arbitrary constructs, the disciplines of modern Biblicists are seen as logical, sensible, even exciting. |
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Banks need to lend to creditworthy borrowers, not just to meet arbitrary government mandates. |
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I prefer to have my laws built on reason rather than arbitrary morality. |
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Providing recursive queries to arbitrary IP addresses on the internet exposes a name server to both cache poisoning and denial of service attacks. |
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The content that is on that disc should be made available to them and not locked under some arbitrary key. |
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It seemed a reprehensible use of one's arbitrary social status. |
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The service man, say, uses an oscilloscope to measure electric voltages in more or less arbitrary parts of the surface of a non-functioning TV set. |
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In many ways, by the time it arrived on November 28, the Vilnius Summit had already become arbitrary. |
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I would tell you how difficult choosing the winner was, but since the selection was totally arbitrary and fueled with cheap brandy, there was really nothing to it. |
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In this thesis he studied the representation of arbitrary functions by the eigenfunctions of partial differential equations and other given sets of functions. |
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He ruled in an increasingly arbitrary and absolutist fashion, brutalizing the aristocratic boyars in a decade-long period of terror known as the oprichnina. |
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But it was never a place where vigilantism ensured arbitrary enforcement of codes of behavior. |
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To each triangle, there exists a similar triangle of arbitrary magnitude. |
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Carol singing, Morris-men, mummers, community plays are just a few of the traditions under threat from what is seen as an arbitrary piece of legislation. |
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The temporal delimitation suggests an arbitrary empiricism reluctant to address either the agony of contemporaneity, or the pathological prehistory of modernity. |
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So, here I would only talk about a few rather arbitrary points that have occupied my mind in the recent days and leave the rest to other people to explore. |
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New faces fill empty spaces where a battalion of fallen MPs once sat, and the arbitrary brutality of a reshuffle reminds the ranks who wears the steel toecaps of power. |
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It's effectively admitting the only relevant element of Drake's notoriously arbitrary Drake equation is time. |
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In our collective memory of historical events, some players are canonized, others are diminished, and the process that separates them often seems arbitrary. |
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I was either looking down at my notebook or out at the vastness of the site, which itself felt completely arbitrary. |
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It has a price, and that price is arbitrary forced servitude to the state. |
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How he gave odds to different scenarios was arbitrary, Woker told me. |
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The former Tamil bastions in the north and east continue to be exposed to arbitrary violence by Sri Lankan authorities. |
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The rate of synthesis of late-gene or middle-gene products at each time was measured by densitometry of each protein band and expressed in arbitrary units. |
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The question seemed rather arbitrary with no rhyme or reason whatsoever. |
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The German federal and state interior ministers have encouraged the authorities to carry out ever more arbitrary and illegal actions, in order ensure deportations. |
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They claim vote counters used arbitrary standards in counting ballots. |
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Inadequate payments and arbitrary refusals to honor bills by government and private industry are financially starving the health care system to the detriment of us all. |
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Some added charges seemed arbitrary and left me feeling nickel-and-dimed. |
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The value or interest of such an arbitrary structure is best illustrated by the following sentential examples. |
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The principle of foreseeability affords a measure of protection against arbitrary interference by public authorities. |
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The LF-AWG is an arbitrary waveform generator that creates precision audio signals with microhertz resolution. |
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Choosing the country's most powerful politician on the basis of his presentability on television might seem arbitrary, even frivolous. |
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Before, some tow truck operators were excluded for what seemed to be arbitrary reasons. |
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Anyway, the point is that there is nothing 'natural' or commonsensical about this way of thinking, that it is all arbitrary. |
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Even when we're at our most arbitrary and forgetful of our own stance, we remain antibestiality and anti-incest. |
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The decision to use 18 years as the legal age of adulthood was arbitrary, as both age 17 and 19 were reasonable alternatives. |
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The bromide conforms to everything sanctioned by the majority, and may be depended upon to be trite, banal, and arbitrary. |
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The Mayor claimed that the action was reasonable, but in reality the action was arbitrary and capricious in nature. |
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The concepts of Europe and Asia as distinct continents date back to antiquity and their borders are geologically arbitrary. |
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Thus, Puritanism was the natural ally of a people preserving their traditional rights against arbitrary monarchical power. |
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To his opponents in Parliament this seemed like a prelude to arbitrary rule, so James prorogued Parliament without gaining Parliament's consent. |
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As seen from these two examples of relatively simple kanjis, the stroke order and stroke count are arbitrary. |
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The latitude of an arbitrary point is the angle between the equatorial plane and the radius to that point. |
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To define the position of an arbitrary point it is necessary to extend such a coordinate system into three dimensions. |
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At an arbitrary point P consider the line PN which is normal to the reference ellipsoid. |
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He sought further promotion and wealth by supporting King James and his arbitrary policies. |
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We then use the model to determine the population of icosahedra in mesoclusters at arbitrary temperature. |
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It may be more representative than the G7 or the G8, in which only the richest countries are represented, but it is still arbitrary. |
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Supreme Court ruling striking down arbitrary imposition of the death penalty. |
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The southern boundary is arbitrary and its definition may depend on the use being made of the term. |
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Charles I dissolved parliament in 1629, after it passed motions critical of and bills seeking to restrict his arbitrary exercise of power. |
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The prevailing theme among these writers was that the design of constitutions is not completely arbitrary or a matter of taste. |
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In Newtonian gravity, test particles can stably orbit at arbitrary distances from a central object. |
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According to Human Rights Watch, he did not support the protests themselves but objected to what he described as arbitrary arrests. |
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It begins with the normal distribution, which is the limiting form of the sample sum over an arbitrary population. |
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There are arbitrary arrests of citizens, especially in the south, as well as arbitrary searches of homes. |
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The names of moves may be somewhat arbitrary and vary from person to person and city to city. |
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They move as if they were bilaterally symmetrical, with an arbitrary leg selected as the symmetry axis and the other four used in propulsion. |
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Modern scholars regard these periods as arbitrary divisions of Maya chronology, rather than indicative of cultural evolution or decline. |
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There exists no single definition of which groups, families and species are seabirds, and most definitions are in some way arbitrary. |
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This document did not provide autonomy to the province but protected it against arbitrary royal acts. |
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However, definitions of the Arctic Ocean and its seas tend to be imprecise or arbitrary. |
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As with most common names, the application of the word is arbitrary and the larvae of sawflies commonly are called caterpillars as well. |
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However, any precise estimate depends on a partly arbitrary distinction between languages and dialects. |
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The direction used in a writing system is entirely arbitrary and established by convention. |
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To illustrate how this would work in practice, consider a field designed to store and retrieve a pickled copy of any arbitrary Python object. |
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The nature of Ottoman administration of Greece varied, though it was invariably arbitrary and often harsh. |
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Lawrence felt that any transcription of Arabic names into English was arbitrary. |
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Independent observers have accused the Cuban government of numerous human rights abuses, including arbitrary imprisonment. |
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In accent discrimination, one's way of speaking is used as a basis for arbitrary evaluations and judgments. |
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The first is that the regular law is supreme over arbitrary and discretionary powers. |
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Accordingly, arbitrary and capricious review is understood to be more deferential to agencies than substantial evidence review is. |
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Following its landmark judgment in the 1994 Bommai case, the Supreme Court of India has restricted arbitrary impositions of President's rule. |
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Consequently, the distinction between felony and misdemeanor became increasingly arbitrary. |
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He then, also, as before, left arbitrary the dieting and repasting of our minds. |
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As an example of application, we derive a new subgridding method with material traverse, arbitrary grid refinement, and guaranteed stability. |
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Moreover, our formulations can solve a more general class of scheduling problems, i.e. any periodic real-time taskset with arbitrary deadline. |
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The truncation procedure that produced the truncated cube I can be applied to arbitrary polyhedra so as to obtain new polyhedra. |
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I knew a stunned plunge of disappointment and a bitter anger. What right had he to issue such an arbitrary ukase? |
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Unlike Fahrenheit and Celsius temperatures, where the zero point is arbitrary, absolute temperature supposedly can go no lower than zero. |
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Other characteristics suggest a very arbitrary will when the writer is energetic enough to quarrel, and a temper unnice when intruded upon. |
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In some of his vachanas, Basava noted how arbitrary the gods could be at the end of a man's life. |
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His reconstruction of corporatism from the Weimar Republic until today, and possibly into the future, is rather arbitrary, though. |
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While the distinction between orchestral and chamber music is anachronous and arbitrary it is logical to the modern reader. |
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Therefore, the FCC, by not taking any action made an arbitrary, capricious and confiscatory decision with respect to commission payments. |
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The BNs are known to represent and manipulate arbitrary probability distributions over arbitrary random variables. |
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In this paper, G denotes an arbitrary group with a multiplicative binary operation and identity. |
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The bioregionalists advocate replacing the man-made, historically arbitrary political boundaries of nations, states and counties. |
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Considering of the variation of revolver radius with generatrix, an arbitrary revolver has to be described with cylindrical coordinate. |
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At bottom arbitrary, these bent axes and fractured parallelepipeds were not Euclidean proofs but spoofs of them. |
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They point out that it is arbitrary to separate investigational elements of a treatment from issues of basic patient care. |
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Spatial domain is discretised by a numerical mesh consisting of a finite number of contiguous control volumes of completely arbitrary topology. |
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If we assign these arbitrary grades, we damage the academic integrity of our teaching, and we aid and abet the strikebreaking acts of the administration. |
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Gongsun discouraged arbitrary tyranny or terror as destroying law. |
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Thus the royal prerogative is in theory an unlimited, arbitrary authority. |
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In the West, relatively arbitrary straight lines following latitude and longitude often prevail, due to the sparseness of settlement west of the Mississippi River. |
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The evolution equations for constructed vector optical and symplectic tomograms and vector quasidistributions for arbitrary Hamiltonian are found. |
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Although such classifications are not entirely arbitrary, it is not possible to devise a coherent linguistic set of criteria for the boundaries between languages. |
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