This situation isn't just restricted to cases where a Big Man is 'right' or 'wrong' – it could apply to coordination on some arbitrary issue, the existence of God say.
Toward the contemporary tips of a phylogenetic tree, resolution is subject to the delimitation of species, a complex and often arbitrary issue that is not part of the phylogenetic inference process; eventually, recognizing the distinctiveness of individual taxa becomes problematic, because recent and incipient speciation may be difficult to identify [17], [41].
To cover at once a given range of chemical compositions, equivalence ratios and temperatures, the chemical properties of stochastic particles, submitted to micro-mixing and chemical reactions, are combined with the computation of deterministic one-dimensional composition-space trajectories, issued from an arbitrary number of inlet conditions.
Not some arbitrary number.
Assange's lawyers requested the lifting of the warrant after the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention issued a non-binding legal opinion on 5 February aying his confinement in the Ecuadoran embassy amounted to arbitrary detention by Sweden and Britain.
In 2015, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention issued an opinion that in light of her medical problems, the refusal to grant bail to Mrs. Arroyo made her detention arbitrary and a violation of international law.
As we move toward a public school system of haves and have-nots, it seems fair to ask if we should trust parents, teachers and local communities to assess the quality of our nation's schools, rather than a set of arbitrary standards issued by Washington bureaucrats.
Every time a school is reorganized and subdivided by Bizarro Bloomberg and King Klein, senior teachers are cut loose by new principals because they are considered too expensive to keep and because the new principals, fresh out the Bloomberg/Klein Mis-Leadership Academy, fear people who know how to teach will not simply follow arbitrary directives issued from above.
Mr. Tribe, though, said there was nothing unusual about high courts at the state or national level establishing arbitrary deadlines when issues had to be resolved expeditiously.
Setting an arbitrary rule that issues will not be covered without victim testimony makes serious news programs appear little better than the Jeremy Kyle Show.
