Sentence examples for arbitrary custom from inspiring English sources

The 'programmable' and 'active' network paradigms have been trying to solve the problems emanating from the immutable organization of network software layers by allowing arbitrary custom codes to be embedded inside network layers.

But psychologist Michael Tomasello of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, says the experiment doesn't cleanly demonstrate that chimps can pick up a completely arbitrary custom.

Genotypes are determined using hard-filter criteria, i.e. by simply counting the number of sequencing reads for each allele and applying arbitrary custom cut-off rules.

For this purpose, UltraScan provides a convenient module (see Figure S-1, Supporting Information) to create and display arbitrary custom grids that can be fitted with the 2DSA method, either on a local computer or on a remote supercomputer, and allows the user to combine multiple subgrids for selected regions of the parameter domain into a global supergrid.

The lethargic and arbitrary customs system has defied all serious reform attempts so far.

"Jim and I were out to destroy -- ridicule, if you will -- all sources of arbitrary authority and custom.

The third act established strict and often arbitrary machinery of customs collection in the American colonies, including additional officers, searchers, spies, coast guard vessels, search warrants, writs of assistance, and a Board of Customs Commissioners at Boston, all to be financed out of customs revenues.

He has pushed for oversight hearings that will look into the U.S. Customs arbitrary application of tariffs on US companies that remanufacture products in Mexico.

In 1761 Hutchinson brought upon himself a storm of protest and criticism by issuing writs of assistance, documents that authorised essentially arbitrary searches by customs officials.

It was alleged in the bill to have been a part of the regular business of the defendant roads to interchange traffic with the Ann Arbor road, and the injunction was sought to prevent an arbitrary discontinuance of this custom.

The government does not restrict foreign investment; however, the investment climate suffers from red tape, corruption, arbitrary licensing decisions, complex customs procedures, high taxes, tariffs, and fees, archaic legislation, and weak intellectual property rights.