Sentence examples for constitutes an arbitrary from inspiring English sources

To the extent an award is grossly excessive, it furthers no legitimate purpose and constitutes an arbitrary deprivation of property.

"The question is: How do you evaluate what constitutes an arbitrary decision?" said Abner Greene, a law professor at Fordham University School of Law in New York.

He is correct in arguing that in evaluating most generally applicable zoning regulations, the burden properly rests on the party challenging the regulation to prove that it constitutes an arbitrary regulation of property rights.

The U.N. human rights office said that it has become 'increasingly concerned for the teen's safety, that of her lawyer and other supporters' and argued that imposing the death penalty in Noura's case despite clear evidence of self-defense would constitute an arbitrary killing.

The justices agreed with the findings in a different case that specific weapons banned by brand name under another law constituted an "arbitrary and ill-defined subset". As originally drafted, the current law would have restricted the sale and possession of guns based on a description of their characteristics, rather than banning a specific list of weapons.

Another major criticism, based on the constructivist theory of international relations, is that the notion of anarchy as realists deploy it constitutes an artificial and arbitrary discourse of competition and violence.

This construction of the numerical quantity of the angle \(\delta\) observed by \(B\) at \(O\), which is describable in the form of purely arithmetical relations, is invariant under arbitrary coordinate transformations and constitutes an objective fact of the world.[111] On the other hand, the angles between two stars determine the objectively indescribable subjective experience of the observer.

While a promoter CpGi is classically linked to gene expression, the definition of what constitutes a CpGi is fairly arbitrary and based on computational prediction.

Nevertheless, the precise definition of what constitutes a "Nup" remains somewhat arbitrary, as many proteins that associate with the NPC do so transiently, with varying dwell times, and some NPC-associated proteins also extend their functions and localizations beyond the NPC (Arib and Akhtar 2011).

So my left foot and any arbitrary stone at the bottom of the sea constitutes an object, though an object of no descriptive or explanatory interest.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association has redefined what constitutes an acceptable high school course for incoming college athletes, ending more than four years of battle with parents and school officials who complained that the course parameters were arbitrary and often irrelevant.