Where the opposition has protested, the government has responded with lethal force, arbitrary arrests and unfair trials.
It has interviewed several refugees from the region who reported that government officials have responded with violence and arbitrary detention when people have not agreed to relocate.
The courts, the permanent bureaucracy (Steve Bannon's "deep state"), the media, and the American citizenry have responded in commendable fashion, resisting the encroachments of an arbitrary and unhinged President.
A fourth defining feature of relational responding is arbitrary applicability.
Thus, genetic variation seems to be concentrated around a few dimensions, meaning that the ability of populations to respond to arbitrary selection pressures may be severely reduced.
Correa responded by sending in the police, tear gassing demonstrators and conducting arbitrary arrests.
Rifkind's comments came as the European Union responded with anger to Russia's ban on politicians, calling it "totally arbitrary and unjustified".
In "Eclaircissement XV," Malebranche responded to the scholastic point that occasionalism renders scientific explanation impossible by appealing to the fact that God is not an arbitrary agent, but acts in accord with His wisdom.
The skin-like elastic cover of a tactile-sensor array plays a fundamental role in determining how the sensor is responding to an arbitrary surface stimulus.
For example, to test whether arbitrary aspects of form can respond to selection, Weber [ 16, 17] selected on six ratios of lengths between landmarks on the wing.
