Sentence examples for is as arbitrary from inspiring English sources

Not every span of one hundred days is as arbitrary as this one.

"The reigning theory is that the taste for risk is as arbitrary as the value of a painting," Seo says.

The racial categorization system that we persist in using is as arbitrary as Borges's despite its "scientific" aura.

Well over 100 women have been seriously attacked since the end of June, usually in a manner that is as arbitrary as it is cruel.

And the 60-day limit on committing troops to military action without Congressional authorization is as arbitrary as 1,000 battle deaths.

Perhaps the desire to squeeze our highest emotions into the straitjacket of a single concept is as arbitrary and unnecessary as the old desire to group things into sevens.

No marriage is as arbitrary and accidental as one between a writer and a reader, set up by a brief infatuation in a bookstore or the enthusiasm of a third party.

"It's a play which shows two paternalistic, white psychiatrists treating a young, black patient as if he were an African country," says Xia. "The diagnosis he is given – 'borderline neurotic and psychotic' – is as arbitrary as the lines on a colonial map".

species-membership is as arbitrary as race and gender as a basis for denying rights.

They're saying species-membership is as arbitrary as race and gender as a basis for denying rights.

"While the Earth's orbit is not a fiction, any attempt to organise that orbit's movement into a rigid order is as arbitrary as any other".