Sentence examples for arbitrarily applied from inspiring English sources

The rules do seem arbitrarily applied and elastic.

Better than constantly worrying about breaking one of the arbitrarily applied rules that govern every part of life in Iran.

But no one benefits when these are poorly conceived and arbitrarily applied.

Italy does not need tougher laws, the critics say, because existing legislation is adequate, if arbitrarily applied.

The selective use of tax audits and safety inspections, as well as arbitrarily applied laws and regulations, are burdensome and deeply disruptive to NGO activities.

In 1972, the Supreme Court voted 5 to 4 to invalidate all death penalty laws in the country because they had been too arbitrarily applied.

What criteria, for example, had Ms. Harris used last week when she declared -- in a matter of hours following a lower court's admonition that she not "arbitrarily" apply her discretion -- that recounts were unauthorized?

I wish I could apply it to the way I live my life but instead I arbitrarily apply importance and triviality to events without reason.

However, arbitrarily applying a clinically relevant cut-off point to a continuous variable such as Ki-67 that is unimodally distributed is problematic.

A scholarly study of every murder case in the state from 1973 — when Connecticut enacted a new death-penalty law to comply with the Supreme Court's ruling that the penalty had previously been applied arbitrarily nationwide and was thus unconstitutional — until 2007 found that the state was still applying capital punishment arbitrarily.

Instead, published "guidelines" are applied arbitrarily.