Sentence examples for did arbitrarily from inspiring English sources

Not so long ago, people were outraged that Amazon could and did arbitrarily delete books from users' Kindles; last week they clamored for Google to exercise essentially the same power.

But he did arbitrarily note that a rate of 9percentt of 8.5percentt would not be "something at where [sic] you decide not to continue unemployment [insurance]." The comments foreshadow yet another dramatic political battle between Democrats and Republicans in the Senate in late November.

However, most of the studies have used a predetermined small number of levels for each variable, and the selection of these levels has often been done arbitrarily.

"Mobile carriers currently can and do arbitrarily decide what customers to serve and which speech to allow on text messages, refusing to serve those that they find controversial or that compete with the mobile carriers' services," the petition says.

It is generally accepted that "meaning" is a suffusing characteristic of all language by definition, and the attempt to slice meaning into "senses" must be done arbitrarily by the person analyzing the language.

The values selected were done arbitrarily to test if there would be difference in the outcome of each scenario option.

If any of the claims discussed above about sortals are correct, then the sortal predicates have more properties than do arbitrarily chosen predicates and a more sophisticated logical treatment might provide philosophical illumination.

"Mobile carriers currently can and do arbitrarily decide what customers to serve and which speech to allow on text messages, refusing to serve those that they find controversial or that compete with the mobile carriers' services," says the petition, filed Tuesday.

After all, locking people up on Nauru isn't done arbitrarily.

This selection was done arbitrarily, e.g., there was no obvious reason for the apes why black or white (heavy or light) should be correct and counterbalanced across subjects.

Care is also needed in using SPC across multiple sites, where there may be a need for adjusting for differences among sites (requiring more formal time-series analysis), and in the selection of baseline and postintervention time periods: this should not be done arbitrarily or post hoc, as it substantially increases the risk of bias.