Non-doms have to prove their foreign status, but often by rather arbitrary means; owning a burial plot abroad can count.Previous governments have chipped away at this exemption.
The real amount of liquid needed to make stock is really rather arbitrary, but it does take time to draw out the flavours from prawns, crabs and fish, or indeed chicken or meat bones, and you don't want the liquid to evaporate before you have got all the goodness from them that you can.
The time scale of the source displacement assumed here (Tin) is rather arbitrary, but our test calculations suggest that as long as the displacement is fast enough to generate acoustic waves, the effect on the thermosphere is approximately the same.
This value was rather arbitrary, but varying Emax values ranging from 20 to 28 did not affect the results.
Along these lines, it is worth noting that our classification scheme is rather arbitrary, but nevertheless illustrates the significant variability in reflectivity profiles among cones and rods.
Our selection of a latent variable including only first-order correlation (correlation with the previous time point) is rather arbitrary, but seems reasonable on scientific grounds in that there may be environmental factors which are very similar in proximate months.
Using quartiles makes this decision easier (and standardizes exposures across different pollutants), but the choice is also rather arbitrary, and should be justified against other cut-points (such as tertiles or quintiles).
The rationale for the number of categories is rather arbitrary, 59 but the choice of boundaries are based on the fact that deleterious mutations with S > 100 will make a negligible contribution to polymorphism unless a very large number of individuals (n > 1000) are resequenced.
They fall in and out of love, but their passions seem abrupt and rather arbitrary; they spend much of their time complaining about themselves or the others.
"The ordinance itself is not so strong," Mr. Yasuda said, "but I worry that it is rather arbitrary and fuzzy in its meaning".
