Sentence examples for thoroughly arbitrary from inspiring English sources

The term "planet" is similar to "continent". The word helps us organize our world, but the division between continents and subcontinents is thoroughly arbitrary.

These cities seem to have been chosen in a thoroughly arbitrary fashion, and Mr. Kunstler's discussions of them prove to be highly arbitrary as well.

The initial claim pressed against theological voluntarism was that it made all of God's commands/intentions ultimately arbitrary, and morality could not depend on something so thoroughly arbitrary.

Which is why I offer an equally arbitrary and nonsensical -- but thoroughly more entertaining approach to solve this problem: Bracketology.

Furthermore, the choice of 0.3 IU/kg/day as a threshold for high-dose treatment is somewhat arbitrary; a larger sample size is needed for exploring more thoroughly the dose-response relationship, identifying a more reliable cutoff.

On the other hand, for uncontrolled conditions involving arbitrary poses and expressions, the problem cannot yet be considered as thoroughly solved.

Thoroughly discussed by Zhang and Prakash the DAVA algorithm has been proven effective for "vaccine" distribution over an arbitrary network given prior information [11].

Thus, there is an urgent need to thoroughly characterize the mechanical behavior of brain tissue and to identify mathematical models that capture the tissue response under arbitrary loading conditions.

Too arbitrary.

Arbitrary units.

It is just a life, one of millions, as arbitrary as everyone else's, a named tenancy that will soon become a nameless one; a life that we know, with horror, will be thoroughly forgotten within a few generations.