Sentence examples for arbitrary circumstance from inspiring English sources

Identitarianism is a lament against change made by people fortunate enough to have been granted, through the arbitrary circumstance of birth, citizenship in a wealthy liberal democracy.

Considering an infinitesimal part for any arbitrary circumstance, it is well known that every part follows the laws of mass conversation equation and the momentum conversation equation.

It seems terribly unfair to punish my little girl for the arbitrary circumstances of my birth – something I had no control over either.

In an interview with the Web site CinÉmotions several years ago, Mr. Miller said that at the core of his filmmaking was an interest in children, and the arbitrary circumstances into which they are all born.

Similarly, we explored three (arbitrary) circumstances for the latter calibration scheme: (i) dispersed-I calibration scheme (t range: ~2.17-87.18 Myr; nodes 2, 5, and 8), (ii) dispersed-II calibration scheme (t range: ~0.96-88.7 Myr; nodes 1, 4 and 10), and (iii) dispersed-III calibration scheme (t range: ~8.30-98.9 Myr; nodes 3, 6, and 11).

So, when you're miserable here, you're miserable twice: once because you actually lost your home/job/savings/spouse/girlish figure, and all over again because it's not supposed to be like that (and maybe thrice because our mainstream society doesn't suggest any possibility of changing the circumstances that produced your misery or even how arbitrary those circumstances are).

Fifteen or 20 years from now, perhaps Kidd will return with a perspective only time and distance can bring, knowing how arbitrary the circumstances of conventional career definition can be.

Traditional family law subjected both wives and children to considerable arbitrary power: circumstances in the case of the latter, circumscribed opportunities in the case of the former, ensured the nearly complete dependency of both on the family they happened to be in.

I know that but for the arbitrary nature of circumstance, it could have been me sitting for decades inside of prison, rather than walking away from one.

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's proposal to serve an extra three months is dangerous to the democratic process because it is arrived at by an arbitrary set of circumstances (news article, Oct. 5).

Rogue waves, alternatively called freak or giant waves, were first observed under circumstances of arbitrary depths of the ocean.