Numbers, names — they are equally arbitrary, equally random, equally unimportant".
The medical exemptions for chronic illnesses are equally arbitrary.
The stories behind the objects tell of paranoia and caprice -- arbitrary imprisonment and equally arbitrary release, opulently furnished rooms never inhabited.
It would be equally arbitrary to impose such a distinction in the case of shamanism.
It is equally arbitrary that individual councils now decide how far to support people formerly entitled to council tax benefit.
Why not just base it on something equally arbitrary and irrelevant like shoe size or mother's maiden name?
But as he notes, appraisals seemed equally arbitrary back in 2005 and 2006, as the housing market was going up.
In theory, at least, Mr. Trbuljak's Bartlebyesque renunciation would cause viewers to reflect critically and subversively on the arbitrary nature of the art system and its connection to broader, equally arbitrary systems -- academic, economic, governmental and otherwise.
This month, Senators Pat Toomey, Republican of Pennsylvania, and Tom Carper, Democrat of Delaware, introduced a bill to raise the 500-holder limit to the equally arbitrary number of 2,000.
But it is not clearly necessary, after discarding the recourse to intuition as an insufficient basis for a judgment of value, to declare all such judgments equally arbitrary.
