Sentence examples for a sort of arbitrary from inspiring English sources

The London police have discovered that the best way to neuter demonstrations is not to move everyone on, or disperse troublemakers, but hold them close, cordon them into a diminishing space for hours and hours, as a sort of arbitrary al fresco arrest.

A: Sort of.

But much as he prizes regional character, Howe is not wedded to any sort of arbitrary geographical boundaries.

Now, I realize that there are all sorts of arbitrary rules about what makes someone who lives in New York a "New Yorker"—years of residence, age, how long you have been working the cheese market at Zabar's but I Occam's razor through that noise and keep it simple.

Mr Tarullo observes that the banks would accept all sorts of arbitrary provisions as long as the end result was to reduce the amount of capital they had to put aside.Faults and lessonsBasel 2 is a flawed agreement.

On what principle could you leave such a scene out? "Full Frontal" is the sort of arbitrary mess that gives experimentation a bad name.

People who did become shared owners felt they had won some sort of arbitrary lottery rather than secured a home they had a right to.

There is a sort of process," she says, "however arbitrary it sounds; you sense when the parallels start forming between things".

Your implication was that their views are biased by some sort of arbitrary allegiance, perhaps akin to supporting a football team.

The estimate just seems a bit high to me, and it comes off as sort of arbitrary in the NYT article.

Jacobs ponders the art-text connection further: "I like to play with format, mostly because it often feels like the major storytelling formats people write in novel, short story, plays, screenplays are sort of arbitrary, and there's really only a handful of those arbitrary options.