Sentence examples for arbitrarily adopted from inspiring English sources

From the long and unvaried custom, arbitrarily adopted, and resolutely pursued, by this Barbary State, they never have, & probably never will, recognize, the approbation of a Government, as essential to the completion and execution of a Treaty.

For whenever a reason is provided, it seems that the infinitist is committed to thinking that it (the reason) has been arbitrarily adopted because no reason for it has yet been given.

Frustrated, he arbitrarily adopted the eagle as the mascot because "the name [was] simply applicable and [had] obvious decorative advantages".

The impact factors in the 2006 Journal Citations Reports Science Edition was arbitrarily adopted to estimate the quality of articles.

Hence, we have arbitrarily adopted a reduction of 21.7%, as the cut-off value to define response.

The impact factors of 6, 164 journals listed in the 2006 Journal Citation Reports Science Edition® [ 11] were arbitrarily adopted to estimate the quality of articles.

To protect the integrity of the recovery program, I urge the administration to issue implementation guidance clarifying that while any Governor may exercise his or her discretion to accept or reject the federal funds provided in the stimulus, no Governor should have the authority to arbitrarily adopt a select subset of the overall package.

"To protect the integrity of the recovery program, I urge the administration to issue implementation guidance clarifying that while any Governor may exercise his or her discretion to accept or reject the federal funds provided in the stimulus, no Governor should have the authority to arbitrarily adopt a select subset of the overall package," writes Schumer.

We cannot assume that state legislative enactments were adopted arbitrarily or without good reason to further some legitimate policy of the State.

The external autoinducer levels were allowed to adopt arbitrarily large numbers.

For the purposes of this paper, an arbitrarily-defined 'short-form description' was adopted when referring to each group (Table 1).