Sentence examples for essentially arbitrary from inspiring English sources

Thus, granting agencies are forced to make essentially arbitrary choices when distributing financing.

Justice Kagan properly pointed out that this analysis was essentially arbitrary.

Could it be, finally, that these artists have been grouped according to an essentially arbitrary characteristic?

The first is that electoral outcomes, as far as "the will of the people" is concerned, are essentially arbitrary.

With the adoption of the brush as the tool and of ink on paper as the medium for writing, graphs became essentially arbitrary, involving simple lines and shapes.

My concern is that an essentially arbitrary compartmentalisation of conditions in relation to professional disciplines appears to have led to a gross inequality in how closely related conditions are perceived and investigated.

Thus the equivalence of inertial frames can be thought of as the arbitrariness of the projection of spacetime onto space, any such projection being, essentially, the arbitrary choice of some particular inertial frame as a rest-frame.

Subsequent papers and studies have supported the 2-degree idea, but many scientists argue that it is essentially an arbitrary threshold.

But even for those who are, it's worth mentioning that a mutual-fund company, with regulated duties both to shareholders and to customers, already faces essentially an arbitrary split of responsibility to those two competing groups.

Using a log scale for the independent variable, as here, is essentially an arbitrary choice; although Ct is expected to be linear in log10(C), there is no ab initio reason to expect p positive) to be determined by log10(C) rather than C, and the logarithmic spacing of concentrations is driven by practical choice, not necessity.

Such "acoustic cloaks" can render arbitrary objects essentially invisible to sound waves by guiding the incoming sound wave around the object to be concealed.