Sentence examples for was very arbitrary from inspiring English sources

"It was very arbitrary and the consulate officers had the power to decide, simply based on the interview," he said.

MySpace used to be notorious for simply banning third party widgets that didn't play nice ("not playing nice" generally meant any kind of advertisements in the widgets, but it was very arbitrary).

It's very arbitrary and very troubling.

What I watch is very arbitrary.

It's very arbitrary in terms of being locked up in the SHU initially.

But predicting the future is so difficult that such judgments are very arbitrary.

It's very arbitrary, and the president sounds like a dictator".

And nature itself is very arbitrary – it's not malevolent or benevolent; it doesn't even know we're here".

"It's very arbitrary what fertility treatment you can get on the NHS, and waiting times can be cruel," says Karen Veness, spokesperson for the charity Infertilty Network.

Setting prices "is very arbitrary," said a top executive at a major label, who described his company's pricing policies only on condition of anonymity.

But... it became increasingly clear that the interpretation of what actually constitutes state secret could be very arbitrary and rather freely defined by government leaders.