In an interview with The Post, Belmar said that, under the Ferguson Police Department's command, laws and policies were being enforced arbitrarily.
Before the court can approve an execution, he wrote, it must confront questions about whether the capital punishment law is enforced arbitrarily.
This led by extension to strong emphasis on education and the power of reason, and its flip side, the rejection of authority that did not stem from the force of reason, but was enforced arbitrarily from without.
It's a reminder that the "Creed of Democracy" contains limits — that no amount of assimilation or integration will protect you when an alien requires conjuring; that being a model citizen means little when laws can be enforced arbitrarily, and you no longer qualify as one.
Many Cambodians, for their part, have been living for so long in a society where traffic laws (and all other laws) are enforced arbitrarily, that they have essentially given up thinking of these laws as designed to serve the greater good.
MLB has a rule that prohibits teams from operating at debt levels greater than ten times operating income (Ebitda), but it's enforced arbitrarily and is easy to get around.
Which leaves me to wonder: What is the purpose of such laws, given that they can only be enforced arbitrarily and do not even distinguish between "youthful experimentation," hardcore addiction and recovery?
They further argue that it was insufficiently communicated and arbitrarily enforced.
The junta has always shown a perverse punctiliousness in following the letter of its arbitrarily enforced repressive laws.
Many other homeowners and community groups have complained that the commission's guidelines are hard to comply with and arbitrarily enforced.
News rack owners and newspaper publishers, smarting from thousands of city summonses, complained yesterday that a city law was being arbitrarily enforced against them.
