Sentence examples for it is arbitrary from inspiring English sources

At the time, the then home secretary Jack Straw said it was being ended because "it is arbitrary, unfair and ineffective and has penalised genuine cases, divided families and unnecessarily increased the administrative burden on the immigration system".

Yet he fudged the question of whether it is arbitrary and capricious by its nature or just because it is badly implemented.

The practice is even more troubling because it is arbitrary.

The rule is widely sidestepped by dog lovers who say it is arbitrary and unfair.

If it is arbitrary, it raises a strong presumption that due process of law has not been respected.

It is arbitrary and implausible and fabricated out of thin air like a story told to a lonely child.

"It's arbitrary.

"It was arbitrary.

It's arbitrary in a way.

It was arbitrary and pointless cruelty.

It's arbitrary, unenforceable and completely illiberal".