Sentence examples for arbitrary principle from inspiring English sources

Rich and poor alike have accepted the somewhat arbitrary principle that warming should not be allowed to exceed two degrees.

The feminist legal scholar Azizah al Hibri elaborates on this twisted form of logic: in the Qur'anic story, Satan (the first fanatic) claimed his superiority over human beings on the basis of an arbitrary principle (fire is better than clay) that he invented to serve his own ego.

To cope with inability to make decisions, the Doctor prescribes three therapies: the arbitrary principles of Sinistrality ("If the alternatives are side by side, choose the one on the left"), Antecedence ("if they're consecutive in time, choose the earlier") and Alphabetic Priority ("choose the alternative whose name begins with the earlier letter of the alphabet").

This feature is related to the "arbitrary functions principle" (Poincaré, Hopf).

While mathematical measurement theories consider the Celsius zero point to be arbitrary in principle, from a practical perspective the selection of fixed points has involved complex empirical considerations.

The choice of D is arbitrary in principle, but low in practice: D = 2; 3 are the most frequently used dimensions, for the simple reason that the points serve as easily visualized representors of the species.

The four missing pieces, according to the author's foreword, are two stories already collected in the recent volume "Golf Dreams" (it's not clear why that should be a reason for exclusion, since every other story has appeared in a book before, too) and two that Updike says seem "topical" and "dated" (again, a somewhat arbitrary application of principle).

Kant found the Principle arbitrary.

The choice of language for implementation is in principle, arbitrary.

Because the transport process is cyclical, the choice of the starting point is, in principle, arbitrary.

More precisely, instead of allowing arbitrary modifications in principle and prohibiting certain undesired behavior, the statements explicitly describe what is allowed to change.