Sentence examples for to act arbitrarily from inspiring English sources
"The ordinary man believes he is free when he is permitted to act arbitrarily, but in this very arbitrariness lies the fact that he is unfree," Hegel wrote.
Under the federal standard, prosecutors must prove the defendant is a flight risk or a danger to others, but in local systems, judges and magistrates have far more room to act arbitrarily.
Although the king recognized Sancho, their relationship deteriorated, in part because Alfonso X's ill health rendered him less able to carry out his duties and caused him to act arbitrarily.
The immigration crisis may abate, but it has already shown the power of government to act arbitrarily overnight sundering families, upending long-set expectations, until all those born as outsiders must imagine themselves here only on sufferance of a senior White House counsellor.
Formally, the new security police was to act less arbitrarily.
Although the police have been known to be rude and act arbitrarily, they are not overworked, even as crime, prostitution, and the use of drugs (as well as alcohol) are acute problems.
The state courts have agreed to let the state and local officials do their jobs, but retain the jurisdiction to reverse their decisions if they act arbitrarily, that is without good reason under the law.
Meanwhile, under due process, Justice Kennedy wrote, parties subject to regulation should know what is required of them and those enforcing the law cannot act arbitrarily.
It is difficult, now, to know what that meant, since the concept behind the Due Process Clause is that government may not act arbitrarily, and a person on trial in a criminal case is surrounded by the multiple protections of the Bill of Rights precisely to eliminate arbitrariness.
For FitzRalph God is good and does not act arbitrarily or irrationally.
The rule of law should guarantee that officials cannot act arbitrarily, as Argentina's government did recently when it seized the private 401 k -style pensions of its citizens.
