Sentence examples for capricious act from inspiring English sources

Human aggression, unlike famine and disease, is not just some capricious act of God.

The company seems never to have learned one of the central lessons of the nylon story: Drawing a line between theoretical and applied research is, more often than not, an arbitrary and capricious act.

Adding a dose of cynicism, Mr Lukashenka expressed his condolences to the pair's families.In this section Monti's labour-law tangle Murders in the Midi-Pyrénées Salami tactics Testing the limits Cracking down, cracking up Rebellious days Unfree trade ReprintsSome émigrés think the executions were just another capricious act of cruelty by a thuggish president.

He made clear, for instance, that the very large salaries that star athletes are able to make are not capricious acts of society, but rather something that is a predictable outcome of economic forces,” Lazear said.

Teleology, even Confucian teleology, takes the place of meaninglessness, of a world conceived through random and capricious acts and catalysts.

He is not free to be capricious, to act without reason, that is, in relation to the attainment of the objects declared by § 205(a).

U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg found that Mr. Ross committed "the definition of an arbitrary and capricious governmental act" when he ordered that 2020 Census forms include a question on respondents' citizenship status.

The 1946 Administrative Procedure Act bars "capricious" rulemaking at federal agencies, and experts anticipate credible legal challenges against Pai's proposal for not rising above that standard, especially because of how the FCC has bungled public comment.

Such a drastic action would have been subject to challenge as "arbitrary and capricious" under the Administrative Procedure Act, leading to perhaps years of litigation.

Prometheus Radio Project and Media Mobilizing Project filed a petition in January, arguing that the FCC's decision to relax ownership rules without sufficient justification was arbitrary and capricious under the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S. § 706.

The opponents, including Virginia's attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli II (R), argued that EPA rules setting emissions standards for cars and light trucks, and requiring construction and operating permits for the nation's largest emitters of greenhouse gases, such as coal-fired power plants, were based on a faulty interpretation of the Clean Air Act, and therefore capricious and heavy handed.