John is a prodigious hobbyist and, alongside his travels, we hear in detail about every new enthusiasm, from yoghurt-making to shorthand systems, from horticulture (especially its carnivorous or stinky manifestations) to homeopathy, from a grim fascination with that nay-sayer of physical frailty, Mary Baker Eddy, to a rather arbitrary campaign against aluminium cooking pans.
How can we tolerate a military dictatorship's supervision of any political process when thousands of Egyptians continue to languish in the dungeons of military prison after undergoing arbitrary arrest, campaigns of systematic torture, and exceptional military tribunals?
Foreign businesses have complained about what they call an arbitrary anti-corruption campaign, as well as the lack of market access and the theft of intellectual property.
They are subjected to harassment, surveillance, arbitrary detention, smear campaigns, and prolonged and unfair trials.
Activists say the Iranian judiciary embarked on a campaign of arbitrary arrests to provide justification for Khamenei's remarks.
Mutwakel said the targeting parameters appeared to have been relaxed in the course of the war, but she said the Houthis were also guilty of human rights violations, having launched what she described as an unprecedented campaign of arbitrary arrests, detentions and forced disappearances against political opponents.
A campaign of arbitrary arrests and harassment is driving Afghan refugees out of Pakistan, according to testimony gathered by the BBC.
For many voters, random, often arbitrary moments from the campaign proved motivating in often unexpected ways.
Egypt's government is guilty of conducting a "large-scale campaign of arbitrary detention of critics," said Thursday's resolution, calling for the immediate release of political prisoners.
The authorities then launched a campaign of arbitrary arrests, shooting protesters with birdshot, systematic torture, imprisonment without trial and collective punishment of whole villages with clouds of tear gas.
They have executed campaigns of arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, torture, extrajudicial killings and forcible displacement.
