Sentence examples for an arbitrary standard from inspiring English sources

Yet "distracting" struck me as an arbitrary standard, and I decided to investigate.

Natalie Ravitz, the Education Department's chief spokeswoman, described so-called "last in, first out" layoffs as "an arbitrary standard" that punishes schools that have chosen to hire teachers who are new to the profession.

"The problem came when every child was expected to reach an arbitrary standard that didn't include a consideration of where they are coming from," said State Representative Kathy Ashe, a Democrat.

He said that if the board could design a rigorous test that companies must apply in deciding whether assets are impaired, and thus must be written down, it would provide more information for investors than an arbitrary standard requiring that assets be written off over a certain schedule.

But worse, it demonstrates how the goalposts are constantly shifting for the non-native speaker; not only do they have to meet an arbitrary standard of English set by the listener, woe betide them if they ever slip into their own language for a few moments.

But in our detailed timekeeping we have discarded the Sun, Moon and stars, along with almost every other source of enchantment, and now rely on an arbitrary standard for measuring the pace of change: the rate of radiation of an atom of caesium.

The reason for these rules had more to do with protecting the club regulars from the hostility against homosexuals that ran rampant in this unenlightened era than with any arbitrary standard of chic.

Jamin B. Raskin, a professor of constitutional law at American University who represented Ross Perot in 1996 in an unsuccessful effort to be included in the presidential debates, said a less arbitrary standard would be 5percentthethresholdhold required by federal law for a candidate to qualify for public funds.

The stigma once associated with their realities has been exposed as bias, another awful consequence of applying a single arbitrary standard to humanity's infinite variety.

An internal, arbitrary standard was made of a mixture of total RNAs from PBMCs taken from three healthy donors.

It appears to be a mushy, if arbitrary, standard, perhaps less definable even than indecency.