Sentence examples for arbitrary justice from inspiring English sources

"Arbitrary time limits yield arbitrary justice," he said recently.

The barons ruled their estates like kings, dispensing arbitrary justice over their peasants.

The case of the geologist, Xue Feng, is considered a troubling example of China's rough and arbitrary justice system.

"It must be clear that there is no tolerance for human rights abuses and arbitrary justice in the football associations and among the players," the Greens leaders wrote.

The army brass invoked the imperatives of security and "military necessity" to perpetuate its regime of censorship, curfews, forced work assignments, and arbitrary "justice" in the military courts.

Dubai's current balloon might pop, just as past ones did, if greed again blinds better judgment and the government fails to address concerns such as a harsh and arbitrary justice system.

"I understand that people in totalitarian countries must obey arbitrary orders," Justice Black wrote.

"By denying any one government complete jurisdiction over all the concerns of public life, federalism protects the liberty of the individual from arbitrary power," Justice Kennedy wrote.

"Uncontrolled search and seizure is one of the first and most effective weapons in the arsenal of every arbitrary government," Justice Robert H. Jackson, the former chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, wrote in 1949.

He often defended the interests of those, like Ms. Kungayeva, who became ensnared in the violent and often arbitrary military justice of the Chechen conflict or the tyrannical rule of Chechnya's violence-prone leader, Ramzan A. Kadyrov, in the war's aftermath.

They are a parody of justice: arbitrary, opaque and wide open to influence-peddling, special pleading and corruption.