Sentence examples for their arbitrary from inspiring English sources

If the Nobel Committee decide to stick to their arbitrary precedent of not awarding the prize to collaborations, they are just denying how great science (sometimes) works.

Since the opening of the prison camp, numerous prisoners held at Guantánamo have sporadically taken part in hunger strikes to protest their arbitrary imprisonment, treatment and conditions.

Had this government never claimed to want scientific advice, then they would be quite justified in insisting on their arbitrary classification system – but they did.

He deplores the crass, anything-goes style of past campaigns, and has done his best to avoid playing by their arbitrary rules.

In truth, none of them was particularly interesting and it was only their arbitrary relationship with Miss Brodie that kept anyone awake for very long.

Word And Object (1960) attacked prevailing philosophical theories which see meanings as objects in a museum of ideas, with verbal expressions as their arbitrary, interchangeable labels.

Both films seek ways through their respective borders, revealing their illusive, arbitrary nature.

"They can never openly justify their rules, because there's no public list of banned books and these people make their own arbitrary decisions," said Mr. Bao, the son of a purged Chinese official.

In light of the virtual requirement for name directors to invent their own (arbitrary) attitudes and imagery, it would be foolhardy to predict.

The law, of course, is not concerned so much about motives as about the perception of individuals about their disparaging, arbitrary and unequal treatment.

In the face of such complexity, people construct their own arbitrary algorithms — they assume that every factor is of equal importance, or randomly elevate one or two factors for the sake of simplifying matters — and we make mistakes because those arbitrary algorithms are, well, arbitrary.