Sentence examples for arbitrary established from inspiring English sources

Area boundaries are arbitrary, established for convenience.

William F. S. Miles focuses on the Hausa-speaking people of West Africa whose land is still split by an arbitrary boundary established by Great Britain and France at the turn of the century.

The direction used in a writing system is entirely arbitrary and established by convention.

Every single day, 1,100 people are taken away from their jobs, communities, and families to meet cruel and arbitrary quotas established by the Obama White House.

Journalists have also reported rough treatment at the hands of the cops along with difficulties obtaining press credentials under rigid and often arbitrary rules established by police departments in big cities.

This program searches for a given sequence or arbitrary size establishing its frequency and positions in a DNA sequence.

Standard scientific practice, which is entirely arbitrary, commonly establishes a cutoff point to distinguish statistical significance from non-significance at 0.05.

The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention was established to investigate case of unlawful detentions.

The game has been so popular that a make-believe holiday, Arbitrary Day, was established to renew the practice in June.

The borderline was arbitrary and artificial – established in haste by a British barrister called Sir Cyril Radcliffe – and in trying to slice India along religious lines, it turned former Muslim, Hindu and Sikh friends and neighbours against each other.

The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention was established in 1991 by the former Commission on Human Rights to investigate cases of deprivation of liberty imposed arbitrarily or otherwise inconsistently with international standards and rights.