Sentence examples for decide arbitrarily from inspiring English sources
In 1972 the Supreme Court held that it was unconstitutional to allow juries to decide arbitrarily whether a murderer would live or die.
To deny the human condition of the fertilized egg or embryo is to decide arbitrarily, irrespective of scientific evidence, when life begins and ends, and may eventually support genocide based on physical characteristics, sex, ethnic origin or age.
If, on the other hand, managers seem to decide arbitrarily whom to let go when they have to downsize, without considering employees' performance, they make life highly unpredictable for everyone.
The Socialists "are in denial of democracy and decide arbitrarily" on projects, Mr. Mitterrand said, while criticizing Ms. Filippetti simultaneously for an obsession with "democratizing" culture, making it more popular, which he likened to the snake in the Garden of Eden.
Sometimes people lose sight of how they want something to make them FEEL, or decide arbitrarily that the thing they are attached to will get that for them.
With insufficient evidence, forest administrators must decide arbitrarily on the need for and degree of thinning using their own judgment, experience, demand, and other plans (for example, timber production planning), without measurable objectives.
When Moroz-Hunt first began to make money, her landlord decided arbitrarily to raise her rent.
In a bit of strange and disturbing news, fabulis discovered today that someone(s) at Citibank had decided arbitrarily to block fabulis' bank account due to what was described to us on the phone as "objectionable content" on our blog.
By spending the company's funds on activities that he decides arbitrarily are "socially responsible," a corporate executive, in effect, reduces returns to shareholders and is, therefore, spending someone else's money.
This reference Hue value is often taken to represent the red color vector, so we decided arbitrarily to associate the red color vector and gave it a zero Hue value (Figure 11).
Further, each camp's chief medical officer (CMO) decided arbitrarily which communicable diseases to report, and the selection varied from camp to camp; in some cases it appeared that the severity of the presenting illness, more than the specific disease itself, was the defining element for inclusion in the monthly report.
