He does not, as Tolstoy says, count the lady-bugs, because, however interesting lady-bugs may be, their number is subject to capricious variations.
A growing array of unions in Britain are reporting that a number of unscrupulous and capricious employers are using the recession as a convenient cover to make cutbacks on workers' terms and conditions of employment to boost their profit levels.
The missing methodology makes the charge appear arbitrary and capricious -- almost as if the number were pulled from a hat, by someone very high up the federal food chain.
What do I really know of this evasive, capricious practise we have of bandying around numbers selectively, cloaking some workers in warm comfort and leaving others bruised and cold?
Any number of factors from illness to capricious artistic judgments have taught the Met to keep a system that allows for quick substitutions.
But the change in his score for the 1998 Beaucastel highlights the challenges of encapsulating something as complex, subtle and capricious as a fine wine in a single number.
Low and high numbers were eminently possible in a third round in which the capricious winds remained consistent (if gusts of up to 25mph could ever be described as "consistent", that is).
One explanation for the substitution rate patterns described here is that for a number of eukaryotes the fidelity and efficacy of mitochondrial maintenance machineries are more variable and capricious than those of plastids (Lynch et al. 2006; Richardson et al. 2013; Smith, Jackson, et al. 2014; Zhu et al. 2014).
But "EPA's failure to distill this ocean of evidence into a specific number at which greenhouse gases cause 'dangerous' climate change" is "not a sign of arbitrary or capricious decision-making".
Finally, just when all seems well, Fate, that capricious chess master, brings his queen into play: Postpistle discovers that Nurse Waxtrap has misread the lottery numbers and the ticket is worthless.
