Sentence examples for arbitrary practice from inspiring English sources

From the outside it seems a bizarre and arbitrary practice, but the government shows no signs of abandoning it.

Always an arbitrary practice, it was played out long before quarterback Colin Kaepernick's protest last year.

The implication is that the needs of any evaluation should be considered by the programme when it is being designed, not just traditional and arbitrary practice, and that if this is not done the consequences for the quality of data from any attempt to assess the impact of a blanket feeding programme should be appreciated by programme administrators.

"The regime pushed the people to rise up by its tough and arbitrary practices.

He famously stuck to the score, ending arbitrary practices and interpretive excesses.

"There are a lot of arbitrary practices," said Andrew Gardner, a researcher on Turkey for Amnesty International.

Such arbitrary practices warrant condemnation anywhere, but are doubly deplorable in Tunisia, a relatively developed country that enacted pioneering protections of women's rights decades ago.

Calling the United Nations Security Council "a tool for the U.S. highhanded and arbitrary practices," North Korea also threatened to conduct nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile tests.

For decades, populations in the Middle East have expressed demands for more jobs, better housing conditions, more independent press and less arbitrary practices.

This grievance, he wrote, was compounded by the often arbitrary practices of local Greek officials, and he cautioned the authorities in Constantinople to treat the Bulgars with restraint lest they revolt.

Calling the U.N. Security Council "a tool for U.S. high-handed and arbitrary practices," the North also threatened to begin a uranium-enrichment program that would give it an alternative means of making ingredients for nuclear bombs, in addition to its plutonium program.