Sentence examples for used arbitrary and from inspiring English sources

Mr. Beard's lawsuit contends that the police violated his constitutional rights, used arbitrary and excessive force and created a humiliating situation.

They used arbitrary and despotic powers.

We used arbitrary (and simplified) geometries of a monolayer of cells to demonstrate that a 2D finite element model can serve as a useful tool to determine the voltage across the neuronal membrane after electrical stimulation.

Even since the Yukos affair, corrupt Russian politicians and businessmen have routinely used arbitrary laws and regulations to grab assets that didn't belong to them.

Prison conditions remained life threatening; many prisoners died in custody [T]he Government repeatedly used arbitrary arrest and detention [and] repeatedly denied persons fair public trials by trying civilians and members of the armed forces before military tribunals... Of course, there are ex ante arguments on the plaintiffs' side as well.

Likewise, the use of terror was openly advocated by Robespierre during the French Revolution, and the Spanish Inquisition used arbitrary arrest, torture, and execution to punish what it viewed as religious heresy.

One possible explanation for the difference in estimates is that we used a formal statistical model for the variation between cancer registries using random effects, while Ren and colleagues used arbitrary weights for each cancer registry.

Existing peer-to-peer search networks generally fall into two categories: Gnutella-style systems that use arbitrary topology and rely on controlled flooding for search, and systems that explicitly build an underlying topology to efficiently support a distributed hash table (DHT).

However, there is a whole continuum between those poles, and some people (audiophiles particularly) can't resist using arbitrary numbers and unintelligible descriptors to differentiate those different levels of quality.

And while brutality toward protesters has captured most of the media attention, law enforcement agencies are quietly using arbitrary rules and local ordinances such as anti-camping laws to constrain occupations and make it impossible for them to continue.

Human rights officials say Serb authorities are using arbitrary arrests and torture to intimidate ethnic Albanians in Kosovo province.