Sentence examples for mostly arbitrary from inspiring English sources

The whole is less than the sum of its mostly arbitrary parts.

Standardized test time constraints are mostly arbitrary, which may well be the reason the SAT historically has underestimated the freshman G.P.A.'s of women.

Limits are mostly arbitrary, especially in the far northwest, where mountain systems such as the Brooks Range of Alaska are sometimes included.

Route designations are mostly arbitrary; the 30's highway included portions now known as Routes 92, 12, 66, 32, 31, 44, 4, 10, and 72, all state roads except for 44.

But it's mostly arbitrary.

Nowadays, experimental designs for secondary modelling within the field of predictive microbiology are mostly arbitrary or based on factorial design.

The variation is largely arbitrary.

Currently, the compensation for such cities in China is mostly on arbitrary policies rather than the scientific strategies.

Unfortunately, the precise cutoff to define anemia in heart failure has mostly been arbitrary, and there is no consensus about definition of anemia specific to patients with heart failure.

However, the margin of uncertainty with these relations is still relatively large, mostly because of arbitrary assumptions made in their formulation.

When it comes down to it, aren't we mostly debating an arbitrary line that's been drawn in the sand?