Sentence examples for by an arbitrary rule from inspiring English sources

In our agent-based model, this is currently represented by an arbitrary rule that a cell exits the mitotic cycle when it has ≥ n bonds with neighbouring cells.

She had shown who was boss: she could hold journalists to an arbitrary rule by making them offer thanks before asking a question, which diminished the journalists' ability to hold her to the task of answering their questions.

This boundary crossing can be simulated with an arbitrary rule, or by allowing the computer's handlers to step in.

Despite an arbitrary rule that any man killed by drones is declared an enemy terrorist, the death of nearby innocent women and children is accepted as inevitable.

Many of the cheapest drugs are ignored because of an arbitrary rule.

Why such an arbitrary rule?

Major League Baseball doesn't impose such an arbitrary rule.

This is an arbitrary rule as explained earlier.

My insiders tell me it's a joyless gig, trying to work within the insane, Steve Jobs-era dictum of zero-tolerance for even a whiff of pornography in the App Store, a bizarre and, by definition, arbitrary rule which cannot possibly be applied with anything resembling fairness or logic.

The uppercase letters are simplified versions of the original, and the lowercase ones are governed by the arbitrary rule that no single character may be rendered in the same form.

iFart isn't the first application to be hit by this arbitrary rule — we've previously written about apps like QuackPhone, which made your iPhone sound like a duck, and was rejected on similar grounds.