Sentence examples for acting arbitrarily from inspiring English sources

"But the board would probably have to demonstrate that it was not acting arbitrarily".

It accuses the State Education Department, which refused to order a desegregation in 1997, of acting arbitrarily.

Not surprisingly, Feinberg's position has infuriated the families of the most highly paid victims, who accuse him of acting arbitrarily, unfairly, and, finally, illegally.

As long as it was not acting arbitrarily, he argued, it should be able to impose its rules, whether or not the court deemed them wise.

The court admonished Florida's secretary of state for acting arbitrarily by actually adhering to the deadline called for under state law, and then went on to set its own completely arbitrary deadline.

"I don't know whether there's a panic," said Senator Patrick J. Leahy, the Vermont Democrat who heads the Judiciary Committee, "but there's such a sense of concern, either at the Justice Department or at the White House, that they feel they've got to start acting arbitrarily, trying things that have never been tried before".

Mr. Milosevic has typically been careful to keep to the letter of the law, but he and his government now are acting more arbitrarily than before.

Time and again, American commanders have told me, they stepped in front of Maliki to stop him from acting brutally and arbitrarily toward Iraq's Sunni minority.

Exact and complete fundamental solution is derived for the problem of a penny-shaped crack subjected to a point-temperature load, arbitrarily acting on the crack surface.

If this is not the case, a bounded steady-state regulation error is ensured whose amplitude, though, can be arbitrarily decreased by acting on a design parameter of the regulator.

This right of conscience does not allow one to arbitrarily disagree with Church teaching and claim that one is acting in accordance with conscience.