A renowned Canadian film-maker, John Greyson, and his companion, Tarek Loubani, a doctor, have embarked on a hunger strike after they said they were arrested arbitrarily when asking at a police station for directions on 15 August.
Even the phlegmatic Twardowski found his former student irritating: in a diary entry for 12 August 1930 he complains, "In general those who behave according to Lesniewski's model ask very arbitrarily for analysis where it is convenient to them if, however, one of them asks for analysis where it is not convenient to him, they turn to intuition.
Females waiting in the registration queue were arbitrarily approached and asked to complete an anonymous questionnaire after reading the information and consent form.
Now, if something is given to us as a set and we ask whether it is identical with an arbitrarily chosen object x, this specifies a clear condition that settles the matter.
Student teams are given two arbitrarily chosen trees and asked to use data to decide which of the two trees is a better hypothesis.
The two lists of five nursing homes were then placed in two blank sealed envelopes; a colleague external to the project group was asked to arbitrarily choose one envelope; the five nursing homes named in this envelope became the Intervention Group (IG), who implemented reminiscence.
The registrar would ask a series of complex questions about government - so-called "literacy tests" - and arbitrarily flunk black applicants.
We asked ourselves – 'Why do they arbitrarily block access to the site after 20 page-views?' What if I have a strong Twitter following, and every time I share an article, I actually drive a lot of traffic to their site?
In the Fichte Studies he polemically asks whether Fichte has not "too arbitrarily packed everything into the I" (FS #5).
Asked to determine whether Mr. Mills had acted arbitrarily or capriciously in his ruling in January, the court said that he had not.
