Sentence examples for perhaps arbitrary from inspiring English sources

The Nazi colour choice was perhaps arbitrary.

Some now say that because the brain continues to mature while people are in their early 20s, the presumption that offenders should be treated as adults at 18 is perhaps arbitrary and misguided.But although it is always tempting to use hard science to explain otherwise perplexing behaviour, neuroimaging research is still in its infancy.

To be practical, the system would have to have firm and perhaps arbitrary-seeming limits on eligibility as well as on compensation.

The decision to end this show at the death of Henry VIII in 1547 is perhaps more arbitrary since many historians see the arrival of the Tudor dynasty in 1485 as marking the birth of modern England.

The recent Internal Revenue Services targeting of the Tea Party implicated many -- where the lines of responsibility are fuzzy and perhaps even arbitrary.

We have to rely mostly on a few published studies together with clinical experience summarized as "common expert opinion", i.e. to some extent it is a subjective matter and perhaps even arbitrary.

However, a clear benefit of this score is its potential to identify elevated risk in an individual who has a high score but would not be classified as having MetS using traditional criteria based on having elevations in components of MetS that did not exceed population-based or perhaps even arbitrary thresholds (see Additional file 1: Table S1 for examples).

The decision to house families in a former prison was, perhaps, not so arbitrary after all.

The value of such deals is arbitrary: perhaps A$5,000 a well from some big companies.

But what Beatrix Potter's tale portrays as justice, a pointed warning about the consequences of disobedience, is in Seuss's version repression -- necessary, perhaps, but also arbitrary and unfair.

Though "Yana's Friends" arrives bedecked with 10 Israeli Oscars, including the accolades for best film, best director and best actress, it is no more than a sentimental little comedy, a contrivance perhaps only an arbitrary script's page and a missile's length away from visiting tragedy on the lives of its gallery of colorful characters.