Sentence examples for arbitrary standard from inspiring English sources

Mary's phloxes conform to no such arbitrary standard.

It appears to be a mushy, if arbitrary, standard, perhaps less definable even than indecency.

Yet "distracting" struck me as an arbitrary standard, and I decided to investigate.

Because they don't meet some arbitrary standard set by the experts in Washington.

But Congress in this situation endeavored to provide a flexible and realistic, not an arbitrary, standard.

Even those who found his tweets vulgar believed that he was being held to a disturbingly vague and arbitrary standard.

What problems do you think would have arisen from these arbitrary standards?

Many private schools were closed because they did not meet certain arbitrary standards.

This apparent increase in productivity, however, is not sensitive to the impact of these seemingly arbitrary standards on patient outcomes.

Because Obamacare renders illegal (with exceedingly narrow "grandfathered" exceptions) the continuation of any insurance plan deemed by Washington regulators not to meet their arbitrary standards for adequacy.

It succeeded only by influencing Washington to apply pressure on Japan and by redesigning its equipment to comply with Japan's tough and sometimes arbitrary standards.