Sentence examples for arbitrary preference from inspiring English sources

"Black raisins," Brotto said, laughing at her own arbitrary preference as she described her methods.

This idea has been generalized by considering arbitrary preference relations between models of sets of premises.

Even Daddy Hunt, a homeopathy fan, insists that his arbitrary preference for 12 weeks over, say, 13 or 17 and a half, is not religious but came about after looking at "the evidence".

In turn, this allegation, understood as the arbitrary preference of a specific axiological system, does not take into account the real shape of the bioethical standards of the Council of Europe – as mentioned in the above paragraph – or their conditions and their ways of seeking redress.

An arbitrary preference order of the target gene databases was used when screening for IPA recognition: human HGNC, human Entrez, RefSeq Protein, RefSeq RNA, bovine Unigene and bovine Entrez.

An important question is whether particular traits are driven by indicator mechanisms or are driven by arbitrary preferences.

Thus, mate choice results in the self-organizing, evolution of arbitrary preferences or, as Darwin wrote, "standards of beauty" in each population and species.

Yet the Reagan years made clear that traditional gender roles are not just some arbitrary cultural preference.

The column matrix containing all number ones may be replaced by an arbitrary (positive) preference vector, v as required.

It reflects not simply an arbitrary methodological preference but an incremental, inductive, bottom-up strategy to build effective behavior influence practices.

In experiments the nonconscious mechanisms that bind pleasure to objects can be fooled about the pleasure's source (which presumably they evolved to track), resulting in personal-level ignorance or error about this and even the unconscious formation of arbitrary new preferences.