But Ms. Sebelius arbitrarily ruled that girls 16 and under would need prescriptions, an act that Judge Edward Korman, of the Eastern District of New York, rightly condemned as "politically motivated, scientifically unjustified and contrary to agency precedent".
In asking us to hold that it is not, appellants argue that the federal standard is no more than an arbitrarily chosen rule of convenience, [n14] similar in its lack of constitutional status to the federal requirement of a unanimous verdict by 12 jurors, which has been held not to bind the States.
If they want to get you, they can always get you for refusal to obey an obscure and arbitrarily enforced rule.
To make this even more frustrating, Facebook is arbitrarily inserting rules in the middle of numbered lists rather than adding new rules to the end.
Who can harmonize anything when no one knows what rules are even going to take effect and the leadership is arbitrarily unmaking rules it passed months ago?
Better than constantly worrying about breaking one of the arbitrarily applied rules that govern every part of life in Iran.
As Rigie spoke, I was reminded of corrupt countries that I've visited, like Iraq and Haiti, where illogical and arbitrarily enforced rules create the wrong set of incentives.
But enough of this cheating on my own arbitrarily-imposed rules!
A monarchy is corrupted when the monarch either destroys the subordinate institutions that constrain his will, or decides to rule arbitrarily, without regard to the basic laws of his country, or debases the honors at which his citizens might aim, so that "men are capable of being loaded at the very same time with infamy and with dignities" (SL 8.7).
Just as important, it sets a basis for litigation after the fact by submitting comments contradicting the government's claims, the industry can argue that the Consumer Bureau violated the Administrative Procedures Act by instituting a rule arbitrarily, and without basing it on objective evidence.
