Sentence examples for arbitrarily or not from inspiring English sources

The U.S. government, arbitrarily or not, made its rulings in individual cases (Lehman: broke; Merrill Lynch: squeezed) and acted accordingly.

Often, these cut-off points seemed to be chosen arbitrarily or not justified at all.

"If citizens refused to self-classify in accordance with this principle and decided to classify themselves arbitrarily or subversively, or not at all, the government would either have to abandon racial preference or embrace the racial pseudo-science that underpinned apartheid.

"Face Control" is the relentlessly cruel practice of letting some Siberian bouncer arbitrarily decide whether or not you're allowed in to the club based on how good looking/well-dressed/seemingly affluent you are.

Data were collected and analyzed after the Web site administrators arbitrarily voted positively or negatively (or not at all) as the first comment on more than 100,000 posts.

Instead, the aim of using normal data was to set a mass-normalised QF MVC limit below which patients' results could arbitrarily be defined as "weak" or "not weak".

As pointed out in Materials and methods, the rationale for having a normal group was not to make direct comparisons with patients but instead to generate normative mass-normalised QF MVC results from which patients could arbitrarily be stratified as "weak" or "not weak".

Countries may adopt provisions in the aforementioned international agreements as domestic policies so long as they are consistent with international trade obligations – that is they do not arbitrarily or unjustifiably discriminate or act as disguised barriers to trade.

Hanging out means you can show up or not at somewhat arbitrarily chosen times.

These steps may not be required by law in an immigration case, but they are necessary to reassure the public that the government is not acting arbitrarily or using excessive force -- even if it has a search warrant -- when it invades someone's home in the middle of the night.

It is those, as Mechel implied and other companies have painfully experienced, of Russia's taxmen, ready to pounce, arbitrarily or for political purposes, but not necessarily without arguable grounds.So it is no surprise that Russia's steelmen see the outside world as a kinder place.