Sentence examples for arbitrary notion from inspiring English sources

Along the way, though, grammatical correctness itself is becoming a strangely arbitrary notion.

This suggests that beauty is a less arbitrary notion than is sometimes claimed.

But because the negotiations continue to be centred on an almost arbitrary notion of "dangerous" climate change, the 2C limit is incredibly vulnerable to mission creep.

"The question here is, Is the N.L.R.B. moving forward on these steps based on true evidence that current, strong remedies are ineffective or just based on some vague arbitrary notion that employers are to blame for the decline in union membership and so therefore enforcement must be increased?" Mr. Johnson said.

She decries the cultural demand that women conform to an arbitrary notion of physical perfection, setting standards that are "unreachable and often unhealthy".

The ability to write and enforce contracts without being subjected to arbitrary notions about fairness is one of the bulwarks of our system.

As with any attempt to winnow down pop music to some semi-arbitrary notion of "bests", though, the real stories come from what might be missing.

In [15], an algorithm is proposed that is capable of dealing with an arbitrary minimality notion.

A few years ago, I finally put two and two together and realised that it's precisely these arbitrary, specious notions of cool that drive 16-year-old boys to try to kill themselves.

The hierarchical proposal thus seems to characterize a non-arbitrary and useful notion of the aesthetic.

Why should anyone have to pass a government's arbitrary, and usually archaic, notion of what constitutes a stable relationship to obtain benefits?