Sentence examples for arbitrary dictates from inspiring English sources

Why should we be constrained by arbitrary dictates that cement us in a long-past cultural and linguistic moment?

He also recommended reforms of the legal code that would have made the law the impersonal embodiment of justice rather than the arbitrary dictates of despotic regimes.

They rule their world ruthlessly and insolently, deciding who will get a cold shoulder, who will get locked out of the power clique and who will get withering glares until they grovel and obey the arbitrary dictates of the leaders.

But some officials said Tuesday that the statistics themselves are arbitrary, dictated by American law.

Such a system would effectively price the value of skilled immigrant workers to the U.S. economy, informing immigration policy decisions, providing tech employers with more certainty and particularly serving to help determine how many H-1B visas are made available based on market forces rather than the arbitrary fiat dictates of bureaucrats.

The patient's bowel motility determines the capsule's progress, and the capsule's arbitrary orientation dictates the image captured by the camera.

"We cannot afford to let arbitrary caps dictate U.S. business immigration policy," Ms. Dickson said.

Such changes were not arbitrary, but dictated mostly by advances in science.[23] Jefferson writes to Samuel Kercheval (12 July 1816), "The laws and constitutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind".

A reluctant kidnapper flips through a phone book, dials an arbitrary number and dictates a ransom note.

Avijit wanted "to build a society which will not be bound by the dictates of arbitrary authority, comfortable superstition, stifling tradition, or suffocating orthodoxy but would rather be based on reason, compassion, humanity, equality and science".

"Our aim is to build a society which will not be bound by the dictates of arbitrary authority, comfortable superstition, stifling tradition, or suffocating orthodoxy but would rather be based on reason, compassion, humanity, equality and science," Roy described the founding mission during a 2007 interview.