Sentence examples for arbitrary percentage from inspiring English sources

We wouldn't want to pick an arbitrary percentage for Doma's chances of going down.

Isn't it more important to have a good handle on budgeting and expected living costs than it is to meet some arbitrary percentage?

However, Republicans routinely deny this, asserting that capping revenue at some arbitrary percentage of G.D.P. will somehow or other force huge cuts in spending that will prevent deficits from rising to inconceivable levels.

In doing so, we've rejected the approach the last government took in setting up independent sector treatment centres, setting an arbitrary percentage of services that had to be run by the private sector, with guaranteed volume levels that allowed them to cherry-pick easy cases.

One of the most promising prevention measures, circumcision of males, is apt to be very expensive, and it would be a shame if it got insufficient support simply because an arbitrary percentage of the program's budget had to be spent on treatments.

They signed up for their 401(k) and elected some arbitrary percentage, say 4%, but they have no idea how that percentage translates into dollars.

In an attempt to define better this dosimetry, a model based on the cumulative minutes during which arbitrary percentages of measured tumor temperature points exceeded an index temperature was tested in patients with soft tissue sarcomas treated with preoperative hyperthermia and conventional radiation therapy.

Actually, the ENCODE authors could have chosen any of a number of arbitrary percentages as "functional," and … they did!

The use of arbitrary percentages, such as percentage of animals that are cyclic to differentiate deep from shallow or transitional anestrus [ 23], is useful for flock studies, but such estimates do not take into account the physiological differences existing within noncyclic ewes.

The most encouraging aspect of the report is the implicit move away from anachronistic and simplistic measures of competition (market concentration calculations, arbitrary spectrum percentage caps) toward a more realistic view of the ecosystem and its interactions.

In studies involving biopsies, this is not possible and the researcher is required to set an arbitrary minimum percentage tumour limit.