Sentence examples for arbitrary boundaries from inspiring English sources

We still turn to masonry (plus, in the modern world, barbed wire) to separate one arbitrary nation from another and to police arbitrary boundaries.

These diseases are commonly associated with warm water temperature or increased sediment due to runoff, conditions which "can flow past [the] arbitrary boundaries" of marine reserves.

The minute and crabbed always opens out into "infinity," whose dimensions are only glimpsed from the confines of a room, the arbitrary boundaries of a game of marbles or a short poem in regular stanzas.

Processes no longer stop at arbitrary boundaries between the applications.

All the definitions of species, even the arbitrary boundaries and nominalist conventions, bear the embarrassing sign of resilience, which contradicts the idea of evolution.

Such systems may produce very poor results if the arbitrary boundaries of the grading system do not coincide with the natural boundaries of clusters of cases.

Its depth limit is the somewhat arbitrary boundary between soil and "not soil" (e.g., bedrock).

For legal purposes of the Antarctic Treaty, the arbitrary boundary of latitude 60° S is used.

Yesterday, she says, her neighbour, Josephine Kolefei, brought the baby for medical treatment without realising she was crossing an arbitrary boundary that the Seleka had just imposed.

By 1949, both had withdrawn their occupation forces, leaving two insecure, itchy regimes -- Kim Il Sung's at Pyongyang in the north and Syngman Rhee's at Seoul in the south -- eyeing each other belligerently across the arbitrary boundary that separated them.

To the people who live in the region, the border is a crooked mark on other people's maps, an arbitrary boundary snaking its way 2,400 kilometres through rugged and wild terrain.