"Canada and the U.S. abused their extradition treaty in arbitrarily taking coercive measures against Ms. Meng.
"It's disappointing to feel like you've been arbitrarily taken out of the mix," she said.
Akbar arbitrarily took 649 years from the Samvat year in order to make the Faṣlī year 963.
There are many shortcuts that can be arbitrarily taken to save time and effort to reach a predetermined result.
To the extent that people are allowed to express their views at all, this is treated as a privilege rather than a right – a privilege that the government arbitrarily grants and, if it chooses, can also arbitrarily take away.
Foreign investors may still covet Russia's natural-resource sector, but a climate in which assets can be arbitrarily taken back by state officials and then redistributed to cronies is not welcoming.
Re "Florida Says No to Further Recounts as Bush Dismisses Overture From Gore" (front page, Nov. 16): As the daughter of a suffragette, I am deeply disturbed that one woman, Katherine Harris, the Florida secretary of state, has arbitrarily taken it upon herself to disenfranchise many thousands of Florida voters.
The family appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and, in a unanimous decision issued on 24 April, the court upheld the position that the Fourth Amendment did not apply and that Hernandez's claim to the Fifth Amendment – the right not to have his life arbitrarily taken by the state without adequate due process of law – was not "clearly established".
Experiments, in which 60 percent was arbitrarily taken as the frequency of seeing and in which the image of a patch of light covered an area of retina containing about 20,000,000 rods, led to the calculation that the mean threshold stimulus represents 2,500 quanta of light that is actually absorbed per square centimetre of retina.
A metal in contact with solution at which such a situation exists is called the reversible hydrogen electrode, and its electrical potential is arbitrarily taken to be zero; every other electrode can thus be compared with it as it represents the basis for constituting the hydrogen scale of relative electrode potentials.
