Sentence examples for arbitrary classification from inspiring English sources

Arbitrary classification breeds surprises — Nikolai Gogol next to William Golding, Clarice Lispector next to Penelope Lively.

Had this government never claimed to want scientific advice, then they would be quite justified in insisting on their arbitrary classification system – but they did.

Like "Alice in Wonderland," "The Mouse and His Child" was published as a children's book but quickly broke out of such an arbitrary classification to find its true diverse readership.

"We believe the Defense of Marriage Act is an irrational, arbitrary classification of gay people for its own sake and not for any other purpose," she said.

This chapter proposes an arbitrary classification of some of these processes.

The discrepancy between the econometric research and the theoretical framework of evolutionary economics derives from the casual and arbitrary classification of data sets into the entrepreneurial pool.

The state can legitimately, for health reasons, ban incestuous marriages, but the judge, citing the 1948 state Supreme Court judgment, said it cannot discriminate on the "arbitrary classifications of groups or races".Opponents of gay marriage have had a mixed reaction.

Virtually everyone I spoke to told me they are not Tutsi or Hutu but Rwandans and that they will never again submit to arbitrary classifications that were set up by Belgian colonialists.

Schwab ruled that the policy goes beyond general prosecutorial discretion because "it provides for systematic and rigid process by which a broad group of individuals will be treated differently than others based upon arbitrary classifications, rather than case-by-case examination" and "it allows undocumented immigrants, who fall within these broad categories, to obtain substantive rights".

It is for these reasons that we reject the organic-conventional dichotomy and emphasize that, in order to optimize environmental sustainability, individual tactics must be evaluated for their environmental impact in the context of an integrated approach, and that policy decisions must be based on empirical data and objective risk-benefit analysis, not arbitrary classifications.

These are informal, arbitrary classifications without rigorous validation.