Assuming vampires only feed once a month ("a highly conservative assumption given any Hollywood vampire film"), and that each time a vampire feasts upon a human their respective populations increase/decrease by 1, a simple geometric progression suggests that vampires would wipe out humans in approximately 2.5 years (assuming arbitrarily that the first vampire appeared in the year 1400).
In his next brace of interviews, Miliband is bound to backtrack by arbitrarily listing recent television programmes and unconvincingly declaring them to be his favourite.
Leaked memos suggested that Whitehall was discreetly considering grisly specifics, such as arbitrarily cutting some disabled adults' stipend, simply because they happened to be young.
However, amid worries about whether ministers could arbitrarily interfere in the running of the charter body, Letwin proposed the five-page bill to prevent the government of the day interfering with its constitution.
M. Ravi, a human-rights lawyer representing the challengers, had argued that Section 377(a) arbitrarily distinguished between gay men and women, leaving the former open to incarceration and the latter untouched, but his argument also held no weight for the court.
A lot of good work is done by average people".If a large proportion of the workforce doubt the fairness of the grading system, and fear being among an arbitrarily imposed quota of "underperformers", many may try to jump before they are pushed: staff turnover may thus be higher than is desirable.
But no one benefits when these are poorly conceived and arbitrarily applied.
On July 27th even the Global Times, a usually reliable critic of American behaviour, argued that China should avoid "arbitrarily expanding" the definition of its core interests.
Before long, most African countries had leaders who ruled as arbitrarily as traditional chiefs, but were far less accountable.
Its sophistication and stealth led Symantec to conclude that it must have been written by a nation-state.In this section Feast and famine The spy who hacked me ReprintsRegin (the arbitrarily chosen name comes from a text string found in the bug's innards) is only the latest in a long line of government-sponsored malware (see table).
The trouble is that workers are arbitrarily divided into two classes with different levels of protection and the first to be laid off when jobs must be cut are younger workers on short-term contracts, who may well be of greater value to the firm.Sometimes policies almost seem designed to create unemployment.
