As Mount says of recent developments: "Diktats were delivered in a capricious but demanding style, half thought through, but ungainsayable.
Dr. Scarborough suggested that the most significant insight is that it allowed the Maya to successfully cope with their capricious tropical climate, one that causes floods half the year and parched dryness the other half.
But few were as vain and capricious, and in recent times only Fidel Castro — who spent almost half a century as Cuba's Jefe Máximo — reigned longer.
A federal court ruled that the fine was arbitrary and capricious (they left out petty and priggish) and CBS was a half a mil richer.
In the first half, set in 1905, we see Langley Collyer, a talented and capricious pianist, and his brother Homer, a retired lawyer, spasmodically mixing with society.
Their struggles demonstrate how power operates at the lowest rung of politics: the villages where half the country resides, and where a few officials can hold capricious sway over fellow villagers they've known all their lives, and to whom they may even be related.
But, a half-century after Gideon, justice in this country is not supposed to depend on something as capricious as luck.
Arguing that the decision to go with a 1-ton threshold was arbitrary and capricious, these organizations petitioned the EPA to reconsider, and in December 2009 the agency relented, reproposing the originally recommended half-ton threshold.
Are psychiatric diagnoses capricious?
"It's almost capricious".
