The telescope moved ahead, shrunken to two-thirds its original size and hobbled by an arbitrary decree by Dr. Hinners' predecessor, James C. Fletcher, in 1972 that it not cost more than $300 million.
By contrast, a philosophy founded on a voluntaristic conception of the deity would have no ground of certainty or of morality because it would depend on the arbitrary will of God who could, by arbitrary fiat, decree non-sense to be true and wrong to be right.
Earlier this year Chinese officials were hinting, in conciliatory fashion, that at least decrees governing arbitrary detention could be abolished, opening the way for China to ratify the UN's Convenant on Civil and Political Rights as the EU has pressed it to do.
Not that the West particularly wishes to lose this one, which provides a buffer against more troublesome nations beyond, in the rather arbitrary division of the world's greatest landmass that Europeans have decreed should be called Asia.
But the Amnesty report says there has not been enough accountability for the violence, highlighting the fact that the official commission did not investigate claims of arbitrary detention and torture by the Egyptian military, whose senior generals are currently ruling Egypt by decree.
With the President's backing, Rodríguez had also decreed that invasions of buildings would no longer be tolerated — but that there would be no arbitrary expulsions, either.
Barnave presented a decree (March 1790), which contained the principle that the colonies were to provide their own constitution, thereby ending arbitrary administration.
Finally, laws can be elevated by decree to the status of principles, thus allowing the basic principles of mechanics to become conventions; not arbitrary conventions however, since "they would be [so only] if we lost sight of the experiments which led the creators of the science to adopt them" (1902: 128; 1283b: 128).
So the filibuster rule decrees.
