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"arbitrary" Definitions
  1. (of an action, a decision, a rule, etc.) not seeming to be based on a reason, system or plan and sometimes seeming unfair
  2. (formal) using power without limits and without considering other people
"arbitrary" Synonyms
random haphazard erratic aimless desultory scattered chance unpredictable slapdash casual indiscriminate stray inconsistent capricious whimsical wayward offhand wild approximate unaccountable unreasonable unjustifiable irrational groundless unjustified unreasoned unsupported motiveless unmotivated illogical wanton senseless foolish unfounded baseless absurd stupid silly nonsensical ludicrous discretionary subjective personal discretional individual individualistic dictatorial autocratic absolute tyrannical despotic imperious tyrannous peremptory summary domineering high-handed uncontrolled unlimited authoritarian dogmatic draconian unrestrained anti-democratic autarchic autocratical cruel vicious malicious wilful willful deliberate evil malevolent spiteful wicked gratuitous bad willed atrocious barbaric barbarous brutal brute variable fickle impulsive mercurial inconstant changeable temperamental volatile fitful freakish quirky unstable vacillating changeful flighty prescribed recommended ethical magistral prescriptive thetic thetical optional voluntary volitional elective unforced nonobligatory facultative permissive uncompelled noncompulsory unrestricted open possible extra non-compulsory non-mandatory not required up to the individual odd strange abnormal outlandish aberrant bizarre freaky queer curious funny peculiar unnatural unusual anomalous atypical eccentric offbeat off-centre untypical direct forthwith hasty immediate instant instantaneous prompt speedy swift abrupt expeditious on-the-spot rapid sudden cursory perfunctory without delay without formality absonant costing an arm and a leg dear excessive exorbitant extortionate extreme far-out illegitimate immoderate improper inordinate intemperate out of bounds overkill overmuch undisputed accepted acknowledged certain incontestable incontrovertible irrefutable recognised(UK) recognized(US) sure unchallenged uncontested undeniable undoubted unquestioned unmistakable clear clear-cut conclusive unspecified unidentified undefined unstated indefinite indeterminate undesignated undetermined unfixed unmentioned unquantified unstipulated uncertain undecided unknown mystery obscure vague any unruly contrary rebellious disobedient intractable unmanageable headstrong perverse refractory stubborn ungovernable obdurate obstinate defiant recalcitrant inequitable biased unjust prejudiced partisan partial discriminatory preferential unbalanced weighted unequal uneven slanted loaded undemocratic one-sided non-objective unfair parti pris coloured(UK) More
"arbitrary" Antonyms
methodic methodical nonrandom orderly organised(UK) organized(US) regular systematic systematised(UK) systematized(US) consistent dependable steady unchanging efficient standardised(UK) standardized(US) businesslike structured routine rational reasoned judicious objective reasonable sensible sound circumspect definite reliable supported wise prudent considered discerning shrewd informed thoughtful astute discreet democratic limited accountable popular republican representative egalitarian elected populist autonomous parliamentary of the people constitutional restricted libertarian equal open easy-going liberal lax lenient tolerant understanding compassionate considerate gentle kind nice sympathetic meek servile submissive humble obsequious subservient surrendering yielding obedient helpless weak fawning suppliant docile passive lowly modest unarrogant unpretentious permissive indulgent broad-minded flexible laid-back mild moderate polite benign benignant good-hearted humane kindhearted tenderhearted called-for excusable justifiable justified legitimate motivated provoked warranted predictable certain well defined calculable categorical clear clear-cut defined definitive distinct distinctive explicit obvious precise predetermined set strict sure unambiguous stable constant established firm unwavering invariable secure resolute unfaltering unfluctuating unvarying lasting longstanding unchangeable fixed analytical calculated logical advised calculating studied weighed cerebral cogitative deliberative intellectual introspective measured studious unprescribed behaving boring common dramatic normal practical sad serious standard tragic unfunny usual general natural ordinary compulsory essential mandatory necessary enforced obligatory required compulsatory requisite unavoidable incumbent inescapable forced nonvoluntary imperative prescribed enforceable peremptory nonelective optional free and easy dilatory slack slow tardy dragging lagging lazy laggard remiss sluggish backward neglectful delaying loitering late problematic dallying tarrying behindhand slothful disputed doubtful dubious questioned uncertain deniable disputable inconclusive indefinite questionable refutable unsure vague amenable calm easy temperate deliberate intended intentional planned premeditated premeditative prepense designed

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Far from making aid more arbitrary, it made it less arbitrary and more accountable.
But with the arbitrary anniversary deadline slipping, a new arbitrary deadline moved to center stage.
So it's especially bizarre when the movie contrives an arbitrary conflict and an equally arbitrary resolution.
I argued that censorship is always arbitrary; they changed it to "censorship is sometimes arbitrary" — thus proving my point.
To me, they're just like arbitrary ... Not arbitrary, but just human-made classifications of compounds that we put into our mouths.
But the choice of what to count is usually arbitrary, and there are hundreds or thousands of approximations, estimates and arbitrary calculations.
Because the order with which the legislature takes votes is arbitrary, the ultimate winner of this system of majority voting becomes arbitrary.
And he basically says those decisions were anarchisms in the Internet age and now it&aposs completely arbitrary, this physical presence standard is completely arbitrary.
One paper noted that breaking the data up into individual years that people died in is arbitrary, since years are an arbitrary division of time.
"Canada strongly condemns their arbitrary arrest as we condemned their arbitrary detention," Brittany Fletcher, a spokeswoman for Global Affairs Canada, said in an emailed statement.
There's nothing more alarming for people used to wielding arbitrary power than knowing someone else with even more arbitrary power is looking over their shoulder.
This year, the UN's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention's five-member panel stated that she was a victim of arbitrary detention and should be freed.
If an arbitrary game played by arbitrary rules becomes synonymous with the false promise of release and redemption, is it fulfilling a need or displacing one?
To that end, just today, I have filed a petition with the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, seeking a declaration that Pichugin's arbitrary detention must end.
A lot of it was arbitrary choices, because I like to start with an arbitrary set of characteristics, as opposed to deliberately choosing what someone looks like.
The State Department report released last week found that in Sudan last year, "human rights issues included unlawful or arbitrary killings, forced disappearance, torture and arbitrary detention."
You can achieve arbitrary skills at arbitrary tasks as long as you can sample infinite data about the task (or spend an infinite amount of engineering resources).
"Arbitrary and capricious" Shortly thereafter, Uber filed a lawsuit challenging the city's rulemaking authority, calling it "arbitrary and capricious" and inconsistent with "fundamental labor laws," according to court documents.
The U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention is considering a request for relief by Assange, who argued in a submission that his time in the embassy constituted arbitrary detention.
Be smart: As we head into an arbitrary new year, then, it's worth being aware of some of the other arbitrary conventions that govern a lot of talk about markets.
"After analyzing the case, this national body found elements to establish the probable responsibility of marines ... in the arbitrary detention, disappearance and arbitrary execution of he dead," the CNDH said.
The U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention is currently considering a request for relief by Assange, who argued in a submission that his time in the embassy constituted arbitrary detention.
In June this year, the United Nations Human Rights Council Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concluded that Ms. Phan-Gillis had suffered from arbitrary detention, including deprivation of access to lawyers.
In honor of an arbitrary anniversary, marking the 24th year since Netscape Navigator 2.0 first supported looping animated gifs on the browser, I thought I'd appreciate some equally-arbitrary duck-themed gifs.
But then, isn't Dating Sunday a sort of ouroboros, driven by our collective desire for love that has been fostered by arbitrary holidays and now is perpetuated by an even more arbitrary day?
Here is passion neither foiled nor mocked, but rendered arbitrary.
It makes the Paleo premise seem all the more arbitrary.
But the rules seem arbitrary when it comes to porn.
They argued the move was arbitrary and motivated by discrimination.
They're also disputing what some have called an arbitrary rule.
The Senate's plan imposes a somewhat arbitrary November 13 deadline.
But on closer inspection this figure is actually quite arbitrary.
We're victims of the arbitrary arrests of our party leaders.
They are also prone to imposing arbitrary targets and taxes.
That timing sounds portentous, but it is again completely arbitrary.
Barely a week passes without brazen displays of arbitrary power.
So many of these criteria for these categorizations are arbitrary.
So I gave myself an arbitrary quit date: March 23.
Perhaps he had paid off the arbitrary sum he owed?
Deciding between Uber and Lyft is often an arbitrary decision.
Because mistakes are really all about breaking some arbitrary rule.
Canada says the arrest of the two men was arbitrary.
Terms like "GMO" and "Genetically Modified Organisms" are scientifically arbitrary.
In court, Ricardo argued the rule was arbitrary and harmful.
Yep. Is that "looking for love" age range somewhat arbitrary?
They are currently being held in "arbitrary detention," MSF said.
It's funny to make judgment calls for something so arbitrary.
Of course, arbitrary suffering was also attributed to celestial phenomena.
This is an arbitrary distinction, and leads to perverse outcomes.
But even under these plans ISPs often impose arbitrary restrictions.
Because the whole idea of change is an arbitrary construct.
I'm also disappointed by Magneto's arbitrary on / off evil switch.
Unions see this as opening the door to arbitrary layoffs.
Here is the thing: it is still arbitrary in Uganda.
Amazon Prime's yearly fee has always been a bit arbitrary.
They're slapdash, arbitrary, and capricious products of racism and jingoism.
FEMA does not ask for arbitrary funding amounts from Congress.
Execution of arbitrary code with kernel privileges – up to $50,000.
They cultivated creative, yet arbitrary, brand identities to stand apart.
Nor an arbitrary one in the context of Wolfe's career.
Canada says the arrests of the two men were arbitrary.
"They have protections in statutes against arbitrary dismissal," he said.
Outside of the king's court, justice is even more arbitrary.
Viewed objectively, the US standards on currency manipulation are arbitrary.
But many are subject to arbitrary arrest, detention, and removal.
They have been accused of making subjective and arbitrary judgments.
The fees felt arbitrary and capricious, but they are common.
" He lamented any focus "on an arbitrary 100-day deadline.
The target numbers are arbitrary and the process is shallow.
At the end of the day, the amount is arbitrary.
Instead, Democrats set an arbitrary timeline to impeach by Christmas.
In challenging the program, Tesla called this an "arbitrary" exclusion.
The trick, however, is that all these symbols are arbitrary.
That judgment was neither impulsive nor arbitrary, his son said.
Yet Neville was stuck with an arbitrary crew of misfits.
"This arbitrary cap has created an oligarchy," the lawsuit says.
The system is not just ungenerous; it is also arbitrary.
The choice is not arbitrary, but represents a critical stance.
But even then, the rules of doping can seem arbitrary.
And while our (not completely arbitrary) calendar indicates a new year is upon us, I'm a bit tired of treating every new year as a (somewhat arbitrary) time to decide to do everything differently.
Salgado's case fell out of the news again until last month when the UN's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention's five-member panel stated that she was a victim of arbitrary detention and should be freed.
In Oil States, the Supreme Court will decide whether Congress has arbitrary power to create an equally arbitrary kangaroo court in the federal bureaucracy, and the fate of the U.S. innovation economy is at risk.
These sorts of arbitrary distinctions are unconstitutional under the First Amendment, as well as the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause, which protects against the arbitrary and irrational treatment of professionals seeking to earn a living.
Survivor contestants are always worried about arbitrary bonds and power couples.
You have to be able to defend it as non-arbitrary.
This shows again, how arbitrary assignments such as 'supra-kingdom' are.
The size of the fines it slaps on firms is arbitrary.
Not cool: Comcast charging you an arbitrary fee to do so.
In the digital world, these borders are more arbitrary and fluid.
This triples the number of people at risk of arbitrary detention.
The title, like so much else in the book, seems arbitrary.
The videos show just how arbitrary the giant fire can be.
None of these decisions are terrible, but they all seem arbitrary.
Jesse is angry because the world is arbitrary, cruel, and absurd.
And isn't arbitrary, inexplicable change what we, the content, fear most?
Repeating "dog" reminds us of the arbitrary nonsense of words, names.
Spotify is improving of one of its most annoying, arbitrary limits.
Damascus says such reports of arbitrary detention and torture are fabricated.
That death can be arbitrary is part of the human condition.
The faces of the cube can be shown in arbitrary order.
Nothing felt arbitrary, as previous iterations had tended to feel before.
Nearly all words in a human language, by contrast, are arbitrary.
Our decision is not arbitrary but is based on international law.
Venezuelans are forced to contend with completely arbitrary daily withdrawal allowances.
The charges against these legal advocates often appear arbitrary and contrived.
"Wayward and arbitrary" law enforcement would be strictly prevented, it added.
It was, and continues to be, an arbitrary and needless ratio.
It's unsettling to work in an environment where decisions seem arbitrary.
It is arbitrary and largely applied to the poorest among us.
They ride horses down Rodeo Drive, which seems fun, if... arbitrary?
There was no one to impress, no arbitrary standards to meet.
Honestly, you could put all of football in these arbitrary categories.
Her malevolence is arbitrary, poorly planned, and without any internal weight.
Habeas corpus, an ancient common-law principle, guards against arbitrary imprisonment.
There aren't arbitrary decisions even though they can sound like chaos.
The maritime theme is somewhat arbitrary, but that's half the point.
It all feels a bit arbitrary, much like the book itself.
What seems self-evident can no longer be imagined as arbitrary.
The line may be arbitrary, but the debate should be rational.
It reported on arbitrary arrests and the denial of fair trials.
Yeah Beth,"arbitrary pickle fixation" is one way of putting it.
"The rules in the park aren't just arbitrary," Ms. Reid said.
But what if the analyses themselves are increasingly arbitrary and capricious?
At the end of the day, the amount spent is arbitrary.
So whatever target is set by EPA will be somewhat arbitrary.
A: The arbitrary justification of pay inequity is a man's game.
Like all such things, the list is completely arbitrary and personal.
"It became totally arbitrary," says Clement Nwankwo, a human-rights campaigner.
Arroyo made her detention arbitrary and a violation of international law.
Only the numerals will change, and they have always been arbitrary.
But it has faced criticism that its boundaries are somewhat arbitrary.
They have cautioned against creating arbitrary deadlines on reopening the country.
Their juxtapositions never feel arbitrary, and they cannot be quickly unpacked.
Well no, you can construct arbitrary video showing you doing anything.
So it seems like an arbitrary number, but it really isn't.
We witness the boy's indecision, and finally his seemingly arbitrary choice.
But those limits are not established by an arbitrary deficit target.
And yet I can't get over how arbitrary this law feels.
Arbitrary height requirements show up all the time in Western society.
Hasselman's use of the phrase "arbitrary and capricious" was very deliberate.
VICE: How arbitrary are the time zones we have right now?
The lines are pretty arbitrary and the virus doesn't respect them.
Sometimes beauty is the glorious but meaningless flowering of arbitrary preference.
They argued that the new policy was arbitrary, capricious and illegal.
Such judgments are purely social — to linguists, the distinctions are arbitrary.
I don't mean to suggest that all majoritarian outcomes are arbitrary.
Why did the Alabama institute such an arbitrary, soul-destroying rule?
Team members complained of shifting priorities and arbitrary or unrealistic deadlines.
A few arbitrary features of this system are worth pointing out.
My own town sat on the edge of an arbitrary boundary.
They called a Thursday deadline "arbitrary," in the words of Sen.
Any arbitrary prohibition limits the diversity of our national spaceflight portfolio.
The Panama hearings have appeared arbitrary and unfair from the start.
History has proven that arbitrary rate caps simply do not work.
"Vague laws invite arbitrary power," Gorsuch wrote in a concurring opinion.
They described arbitrary detentions, violent interrogations and killings by security forces.
Team members complained of shifting priorities and arbitrary or unrealistic deadlines.
But Apple's arbitrary new numerical threshold tells us little, in itself.
"It just seemed so random and arbitrary to me," she said.
HOT P.I. (for the phrase ("hot pink") felt arbitrary to me.
Each iteration of the character seems to be an arbitrary choice.
But now we have the first workable evidence of arbitrary blocking.
Hope that doesn't discredit my arbitrary awards section that affects nothing.
They also said unfair business practices include large platforms favoring their own services, unilateral and sudden changes in terms and conditions, arbitrary marketing bans, mandatory use of a particular billing system and arbitrary restrictions on data use.
The selections may seem arbitrary, and to a certain extent they are.
It also reminds us that many of our fashion designations are arbitrary.
"Annulling the legislative power with an arbitrary decision is unacceptable," Santos said.
Ladjevardian said his experience shows how arbitrary the settlement process can be.
Liverpool out as anything other than an arbitrary act of fixture fulfilment.
The process of applying for a visa is often convoluted and arbitrary.
China says it is not enforcing arbitrary detention and political re-education.
Why has society at large agreed to live by these arbitrary rules?
They've faded into a blur of arbitrary upgrades, downgrades and lateral moves.
The accusation refers to incidents of torture, extrajudicial killings and arbitrary arrest.
The refusal to participate was an act of rebellion against arbitrary decisions.
And then the process was still pretty arbitrary, causing a few controversies.
And third, the law prohibits government action that is arbitrary or capricious.
And maybe that's because those losses are so random, arbitrary, and ridiculous.
In a new, more sex-positive society, the number is totally arbitrary.
If you think that seems arbitrary and weird, that's because it is.
The requests have gone unanswered or arbitrary unrequested documents were sent instead.
Increasingly, bans were issued for reasons that appear arbitrary, if not absurd.
Mr Ghosn described this latest move by prosecutors as "outrageous and arbitrary".
By default, component scores are more subjective and arbitrary than technical scores.
"Without such solutions, a figure of 17,500 is purely arbitrary," Kern said.
It seemed that the search engine had turned over an arbitrary stone.
Two hundred miles an hour is an arbitrary number, an asinine goal.
The criteria for FSOC's decision, MetLife argued, had been vague and arbitrary.
Language is an arbitrary system of signs agreed on by a community.
SB 827 would prohibit any arbitrary design limitations that reduce square footage.
Whether Ryan gets that award ultimately comes down to several arbitrary factors.
Curiously, there's just one state that meets this seemingly arbitrary designation: Alaska.
The death penalty in the United States is also arbitrary and discriminatory.
"Businesses report their net income annually, which is somewhat arbitrary," Rosenthal said.
" The court ruled that DeVos's actions were "unlawful" and "arbitrary and capricious.
It quickly became apparent that 200 was an arbitrary, and low, number.
He famously stuck to the score, ending arbitrary practices and interpretive excesses.
It underlines the Russian position that U.S. sanctions were arbitrary and petty.
It didn't occur to me that my arbitrary advice may have consequences.
He called the Olympic bill arbitrary, not to mention bad fiscal policy.
Bhad Bhabie's music is valuable for documenting the arbitrary nature of celebrity.
The reasons for vast differences like these among courts are largely arbitrary.
Or the right to be free from arbitrary terminations from your job?
The winners of these mini challenges always seem incredibly arbitrary to me.
He neither falls into a predictable pattern nor comes across as arbitrary.
But I totally sense that shift in your relationship to arbitrary imperatives!
It was beautiful, problematic, shady, glorious, arbitrary, specific, ambitious—it was everything.
They are arbitrary and capricious, reflecting the daily whims of Donald Trump.
In and of itself, it's an arbitrary and not terribly meaningful milestone.
To set arbitrary dose limits without consideration of patients' needs is malevolent.
Corrupt bosses lord over them with arbitrary dictates and inconvenient work schedules.
Another 37 remain in arbitrary detention, Gadem said in a recent report.
But there were other disclosures suggesting that admissions decisions are somewhat arbitrary.
But Zenz, the researcher, said people are often detained for arbitrary reasons.
And this was all my idea, and it was all really arbitrary.
But it's arbitrary to impose a surcharge on the most profitable companies.
Trump wants to dominate the targets of his hatred with arbitrary violence.
To Mr. Blackburn, the 100-year line is too arbitrary for comfort.
"No one deserves this type of arbitrary assault on their core humanity."
Mr. Kavala's detention without trial amounts to arbitrary detention, Mr. Koyuncu said.
The rules were arbitrary but strict: No pork in the house, ever.
And all my ideas were based on a few arbitrary adolescent whims.
Indeed, I typed "Trump" and arbitrary numbers and got the same message.
And while it's certainly an arbitrary milestone, it's also a meaningful one.
Until a given aspiration or vision becomes real, arbitrary constraints are premature.
Our online public squares are no less subject to such arbitrary stupidity.
Some have criticized the singling out of J.H.S. 162 as somewhat arbitrary.
" The decision not to list, the judge wrote, "was arbitrary and capricious.
Moreover, the value of financial support is based on arbitrary feedstock considerations.
But the rules Mr. Trump is fighting for are arbitrary and unfair.
His refusals to grant access to the Joyce archive could seem arbitrary.
In the absence of such rights, parole decisions can be remarkably arbitrary.
Who wants to invest if arbitrary political decisions can threaten whole industries?
The qualifications are a mouthful — and arbitrary — but the statistic is ubiquitous.
If you choose "Free," you can create any arbitrary aspect ratio.3.
Trump's critics are correct that the president has too much arbitrary power.
Decisions about who can and cannot visit with Brayden have felt arbitrary.
Thus, one of Hugo Chávez's most arbitrary acts has finally been reversed.
Thus, one of Hugo Chávez's most arbitrary acts has finally been reversed.
Institutions get built at some arbitrary resting place between two clashing logics.
Institutions get built at some arbitrary resting place between two clashing logics.
As a woman of her generation, Rachel draws no arbitrary social distinctions.
It's an absurd, arbitrary marker, and Trump himself has even said so.
We can make a cutoff, but we should acknowledge it is arbitrary.
If we, as humans, were to claim rights to a dog's mind and body in the way we claim rights to our yard, we would be exercising arbitrary power, and arbitrary power is what Kant seeks to avoid.
Assange's lawyers requested the lifting of the warrant after the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention issued a nonbinding legal opinion on February 5 saying his confinement in the Ecuadoran embassy amounted to arbitrary detention by Sweden and Britain.
The fast food chain responded with the seemingly arbitrary number of 259 million.
Arbitrary or selective enforcement of existing law is itself an abuse of power.
"It's arbitrary," Sichenzia said, adding that valuation are "made up" by management teams.
But instead of taking it seriously, they used it for an arbitrary joke.
There is much good done by these four, however arbitrary their royal advantages.
"At the end of the day, it was an arbitrary decision," Prince said.
If this seems like a completely arbitrary paradox — it's not you, it's me.
The fast food chain responded with the seemingly arbitrary number of 18 million.
Bolton was keen to stress that there would be no arbitrary withdrawal point.
Many cases involved arbitrary detention and torture, sometimes by sexual assault or rape.
Canada was determined to keep it as a shield against arbitrary American action.
There's no other way to put this: the limitation is arbitrary and ridiculous.
Sometimes the question of what's real and what's imagined is an arbitrary distinction.
Before concluding, it's worth mentioning that our definition of "supergiant" is ultimately arbitrary.
After all, the date of the new year is an arbitrary social convention.
Experts say these sorts of arbitrary targets and rewards have psychologically powerful effects.
Arbitrary numbers often take on a life of their own in financial markets.
I could easily come up with my own completely arbitrary, biased categories, too.
They cannot be using arbitrary and exclusionary criteria to determine who gets access.
And Preacher the show also sees the world as arbitrary, cruel, and absurd.
Switching to τ isn't making some arbitrary change for the sake of it.
But the seemingly arbitrary color assignments have actually flip-flopped over the years.
If you saw the leaked internal email, I said this decision was arbitrary.
But, it is a violation of arbitrary heteronormative rules in the real world.
The measure for Body Mass Index (BMI), for instance, is so fucking arbitrary.
As America's expansion gets longer in the tooth, these arbitrary interventions could intensify.
This system was meant to eliminate the arbitrary nature of the coin toss.
We sent letters directly back to them citing that their decision was arbitrary.
The group has argued the rule is arbitrary and causes confusion for consumers.
But she has also ruled out any "arbitrary" reductions in the prison population.
Americans, these new forms of private power loomed as a kind of arbitrary,
Adding to the confusion is the seemingly arbitrary way in which they're enforced.
The new DA described capital punishment as "unfair and arbitrary and unbalanced."—VICE
Studies show that even arbitrary, nonessential objects can become powerful cues for memory.
Dimaya when Gorsuch wrote "vague laws invite arbitrary power," he was echoing Scalia.
That analysis, however, relies on a series of arbitrary and often incorrect assumptions.
It cites cases of arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, torture, rape and extrajudicial killing.
As a target I find it very arbitrary: I don't think it's useful.
Australia is the almost arbitrary place where this savant of letters was born.
Despite its arbitrary borders and bewildering diversity, this Asia is growing in coherence.
Amme: To an machine is indeed arbitrary two too rant to the world.
It's arbitrary, it's ridiculous, but that's the way the internet economy works now.
In response, Berlin warned Germans traveling to Turkey that they risked arbitrary detention.
Fourth, price controls and other arbitrary economic measures have led to predictable shortages.
Then pick Image, Image Rotation and Arbitrary, and Photoshop picks the required value.
This sounds more like the arbitrary and capricious government most Republican object to.
Every language has arbitrary conventions, but there are also universal aspects to languages.
"They have always been somewhat subjective, arbitrary, capricious, befuddling, and bemusing," he said.
Criminals have extorted Hondurans into paying an arbitrary "war tax" for their survival.
Snapbots: Those minion-looking vending machines, dropped in arbitrary locations around the country?
But that first job, however arbitrary, can impact the rest of their career.
We can expect CFPB regulators to promulgate more arbitrary rules in the future.
The rules may be arbitrary, but most visitors follow them and come home.
As an adolescent, she had rebelled against its rigid and arbitrary-seeming strictures.
You can select gold-colored stars, one to five, a completely arbitrary number
The use of security envelopes in this context seems, however, a little arbitrary.
He complained, in the same letter, of Treasury's "arbitrary conduct" in denying access.
To not have my love and sex dictated by some arbitrary social structure?
He thought about his $24,000 in medical debt and how arbitrary it seemed.
The promotion lent respectability to China's notoriously opaque and arbitrary criminal justice system.
The disagreement is very confusing and seems based around something arbitrary: a ring.
They've documented instances of enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions, and extrajudicial executions of civilians.
The crusade to silence words, images and thoughts is both opaque and arbitrary.
Sometimes, they argue, beauty is the glorious but meaningless flowering of arbitrary preference.
This uncertainty — the arbitrary logic of detention — instills fear in the entire population.
"It's an invitation for arbitrary enforcement and enforcement that's not evenhanded," he said.
Others argue that arbitrary cutoffs for significance are always going to be gamed.
However, his favorite additions have to do with arbitrary characters in the overworld.
The department's decision to delay the rule was "arbitrary and capricious," he wrote.
Otherwise, decisions that have tragic consequences can appear arbitrary, hasty, and unevenly applied.
"A sales ban on energy drinks is therefore arbitrary, discriminatory and not effective."
Fossil already makes hybrid smartwatches that can receive alerts from any arbitrary app.
The opposition accuses government troops of arbitrary arrests, disappearances and extra-judicial killings.
Civilians have complained for years of arbitrary detentions, torture and killing by soldiers.
Some insurers defy the law, imposing arbitrary treatment limits or onerous authorization requirements.
"It's not just an arbitrary half century," Cohen says on this week's podcast.
Some Afghanistan experts praised the decision to do away with "arbitrary" withdrawal deadlines.
But their singular focus on the refugee ceiling number makes this number arbitrary.
The arbitrary circling about of the main characters to delay a prophesied meeting.
But being placed in a recording studio with an arbitrary producer wouldn't work.
But we can't do that if companies set up arbitrary barriers to repair.
These are more than just arbitrary numbers getting bigger at an extraordinary rate.
Not to mention administrative law requirements that protect against "arbitrary and capricious" actions.
Year-end might be an arbitrary goal post, but it's all we've got.
Perhaps we were being arbitrary, but it was how we narrowed the field.
I came up with my own arbitrary set of rules for the year.
This makes the arbitrary numbers on our clothes even more abstract and ambiguous.
He conceded that he could be arbitrary in punishing designers, big and small.
So what does that have to do with the seemingly arbitrary theme entries?
The actions that can be restrained by filibuster have become limited and arbitrary.
The combination feels neither arbitrary nor logical, which adds to its contemporary feel.
Yes, people die every year, and sometimes their deaths are sudden and arbitrary.
"The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention considers that the various forms of deprivation of liberty to which Julian Assange has been subjected constitute a form of arbitrary detention," said Seong-Phil Hong, who currently heads the expert panel, in a statement.
"We have received a number of credible reports concerning the lack of safeguards against arbitrary detention in these facilities which called for a visit," said Elina Steinerte and Setondji Roland Adjovi, members of the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
The titular poem is long and fragmented: "Poetry v prose" is the first in a long list of dichotomies that collapse onto each other, and the arbitrary hierarchy of the animal kingdom stands in for the arbitrary hierarchy of nations.
In an advance copy seen by Reuters, the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said Spain should investigate the "arbitrary" decision to deny bail to Oriol Junqueras, Jordi Sanchez and Jordi Cruixart and give them a chance to seek compensation.
Because I had an old copy of the magazine in front of me, and access to YouTube, and the task I'd taken on was such an arbitrary one in the first place that another arbitrary element didn't make any difference.
They're of arbitrary size and often emblazoned with the logo of a team sponsor.
At the very least, Trump could simply extend this arbitrary deadline until after November.
Government is at it is most arbitrary when it treats similarly situated people differently.
ZB: So basically, this is a story about the arbitrary character of authoritarian governments.
But the new study's analysis finds that the international standards for graphene are arbitrary.
HEMINGWAY: Right, so it&aposs hard to argue that it was some arbitrary list.
Regulations are not arbitrary rules; each is set in place for a specific reason.
Make no mistake: little appears arbitrary, in even the most seemingly dashed off paintings.
The choice of onions (orbs) and metal cans (cylinders) do not seem arbitrary either.
Like many others, Kurkdjian sees abstaining from synthetics as an arbitrary kind of atavism.
If anything, we're compensated and bonused on arbitrary data, such as retention and turnover.
The ends of stories are funny things, because they are both defining and arbitrary.
This is entirely arbitrary; there is no one better or worse accent or dialect.
Yes, aesthetic choices are arbitrary and they can change, but not without good reason.
But look, if it doesn&apost happen, the June 12th is an arbitrary deadline.
Too much of the story feels arbitrary, driven by images instead of narrative purpose.
This is essential for individuals who are arrested for seemingly arbitrary or unjust reasons.
Since offence is subjective, the power to police can quickly become vast and arbitrary.
"His two sons have been released, but his arrest was arbitrary," said Mr. Nauimi.
We completely reject any claim that Julian Assange is a victim of arbitrary detention.
Mistakes cost competitors points, detracted by anonymous judges whose choices can sometimes feel arbitrary.
Sure. Would it be weird to go to such lengths for an arbitrary victory?
" Another federal judge has called the drug sentencing enhancements "deeply disturbing," and "stunningly arbitrary.
" Afghanistan strategy: "[Trump's] strategy is based on conditions on the ground, not arbitrary timetables.
"This arbitrary two-for-one executive order is just bad public policy," Becerra said.
Conditions on the ground -- not arbitrary timetables -- will guide our strategy from now on.
In the early days of antibiotics, prescribing arbitrary doses wasn't such a big problem.
Rogers said it was disappointed by the setting of what it called arbitrary rates.
"It presents an arbitrary termination point for a justice's service," he told the Times.
By imposing arbitrary caps on those users, Comcast can recoup any lost TV revenues.
Since offence is subjective, the power to police it is both vast and arbitrary.
Arbitrary detentions and abuses by security forces in Kashmir are commonplace, rights groups say.
Their rules are arbitrary, and they take a big slice of money from sales.
A bank can crush your life for arbitrary reasons and never tell you why.
Arbitrary volume requirements harm patients, particularly racial and ethnic minorities who are already undertreated.
But what China gives in such an arbitrary manner, it can also take away.
Your placement within this cruel, arbitrary system can be a source of tremendous angst.
Clinton, and his supporters argue that the poll threshold is arbitrary and too high.
"They simply accepted an arbitrary method proposed by the Apple Ireland subsidiaries," Lyal said.
His lawyer, Michael Kidd, said the distinction between environmental and political refugees was arbitrary.
A competent virtual assistant should be able to answer all sorts of arbitrary questions.
The position of the blue form and the space it occupies are not arbitrary.
Residents and refugees have described summary executions, arbitrary arrests and rape in the operation.
North Korea is an artificial construct — as arbitrary as a line on a map.
In many cases, decisions about what is acceptable and what is not are arbitrary.
The opposition also accuses government troops of arbitrary arrests, disappearances and extra-judicial killings.
The choice of which "demon" turns out to be plaguing the family becomes arbitrary.
Catalysts ranged from claims of abuse, jealousy, arbitrary quarrels, control, greed, and blatant narcissism.
To be sure, any bright-line rule leads to arbitrary outcomes at the margins.
In a perfect world, Congress would eliminate that arbitrary and obsolete barrier to treatment.
Some of these strategies seem arbitrary, but research shows they make a massive difference.
You'll have three options for a quick rotation and "Arbitrary" for a specific angle.
It was no arbitrary choice, the reader then realizes, to explore images of pouring.
Some of the regulations, which vary from town to town, can seem rather arbitrary.
These bodies should also begin investigating the arbitrary and capricious discharge of noncitizen recruits.
While these numbers are arbitrary, it illustrates a reversal on conventional trade agreement negotiation.
Consider: If Bitcoin is a "store of value," then asset prices are entirely arbitrary.
Untethered by style, medium or geography, such ventures can seem both arbitrary and amorphous.
JY: [Johns and I] talked about collage once because collage became very arbitrary, i.e.
In her experience, the center's rigid, and seemingly arbitrary, rules would hit families hard.
The line between public and private is more arbitrary than people tend to remember.
"The suspension is arbitrary, unlawful and unconstitutional," Karem's complaint in DC District Court said.
The imagery could be mistaken for a hundredth-generation photocopy of some arbitrary original.
It's both the sound of life, and a signal of abrupt and arbitrary death.
Conditions on the ground, not arbitrary timetables, will guide our strategy from now on.
The agency "had made significant and arbitrary errors," Facebook later claimed in legal filings.
There's no reason to believe that hitting this arbitrary goal is somehow life-changing.
The system has always been controversial, and at times its rulings have seemed arbitrary.
Whereas Fosse seemed to be reporting what he'd actually witnessed, Bergasse's choice feels arbitrary.
Fortunately, some states have reconsidered their stance on these seemingly arbitrary restrictions on employment.
This is also why Trump's critics are wrong about a cost cap being arbitrary.
I should point out that these groups I laid out are a little arbitrary.
This kind of humanitarian relief is about real safety, not just an arbitrary number.
No arbitrary deprivations of life, liberty or property, or of citizens' "privileges or immunities".
Where some purists see an arbitrary nonachievement, others see a fun and worthy goal.
Her trepidation isn't arbitrary; most social situations are frantic and miserable in middle school.
In November 2016, UNWGAD found Iran responsible for the arbitrary detention of Robert Levinson.
And unlike Mr. Trump's two-for-one deal, it wouldn't impose an arbitrary formula.
Customers queue in banks for hours only to face arbitrary limits on dollar withdrawals.
But that didn't mean local law enforcement had stopped using arbitrary arrest and detention.
But the arbitrary division of foreign and domestic policy is itself a false dichotomy.
A majority of Germans did not find the boundary between order and disorder arbitrary.
The nuances of sticking to what felt like a largely arbitrary budget became frustrating.
Allegations of torture and arbitrary detentions are rampant on both sides of Syria's war.
Their suffering is not entirely arbitrary, because not all of them are completely innocent.
I mean, contraception is as arbitrary an area as any to mandate equal spending.
He weaves together the most diverse bits of information and never once seems arbitrary.
Chinese entrepreneurs, he said, yearned for the rule of law to replace arbitrary power.
"It's an invitation for arbitrary enforcement and enforcement that's not even-handed," Alito said.
This, in turn, makes tournament selection decisions more arbitrary than they need to be.
Several have complained about arbitrary rules imposed by CCA, which recently rebranded as CoreCivic.
This is the heartless and arbitrary nature of being a celebrity in a nutshell.
I refuse to apologize for my trauma not meeting some asshole's arbitrary credibility test.
Conditions on the ground — not arbitrary timetables — will guide our strategy from now on.
So, I don't think it's fair for them to arbitrarily to come in and say, 'Oh, well, we've decided that because you're [two-tenths of a percent] behind in some arbitrary polls with an arbitrary setting, that we're not going to include you.
The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has recognized that "there is an emerging pattern involving the arbitrary deprivation of liberty of dual nationals in Iran" and declared the detentions of Siamak, Baquer and Nazanin to be illegal, demanding their release.
Earlier this week, Sony celebrated a (somewhat arbitrary) milestone for PSVR: 4.2 million headsets sold.
He cited unfair law enforcement, arbitrary inspections and inadequate supervision as loopholes in market regulation.
The NFL protests he continued, "are not some arbitrary statement about a flag," he wrote.
It might seem like an arbitrary number, but there's a calculated reason why that is.
Like most music videos, "Wow" seems to unfold in a romantic but totally arbitrary setting.
This border, like most political borders, is too arbitrary to justify such a barrier wall.
Under the Fourth Amendment, US citizens are protected from random and arbitrary stops and searches.
Upset about the arbitrary/cruel decision to end all US adoptions, even those in process.
I just think of that moment as a way of us resisting arbitrary technological progress.
Daniel Pantaleo's lawsuit, filed Wednesday, argues his ouster was "arbitrary and capricious," USA Today reports.
Pick, say, TechCrunch, to choose a totally arbitrary example, and it will play Crunch Report.
In this sense, it's a cruel and arbitrary way for them to have been treated.
We have a moral duty to condemn and continue standing up against these arbitrary arrests.
But the way Twitter decides what stays and what goes seems to be pretty arbitrary.
Absent clarity, the policy's application is potentially arbitrary, left to the discretion of prison officials.
Mr Muhammad blames what he calls "the arbitrary and unpredictable devices of the offshore markets".
It cannot be arbitrary that the film is essentially a prequel to the entire MCU.
But the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention ruled in Assange's favour, Sweden said.
To them, they are a sign that airline customer-service decisions are not entirely arbitrary.
But arbitrary, decades-old valuations also make split-rate taxation a hard policy to sell.
Boeing says the decision to include this change to the flight control operations wasn't arbitrary.
Too often, foreign governments deploy regulations or standards in an arbitrary way to block imports.
The computer-generated beast recorded the arbitrary time of 36.1 seconds compared to Phelps's 38.13.
Halloween is a flashpoint for many of our deeply held and most arbitrary social fears.
" The novel, she said, was "uproarious and mind-boggling, but also arbitrary and self-indulgent.
They fault Uber for its arbitrary and opaque process for removing drivers from the platform.
That seems open to arbitrary interpretation (local officials often treat small peaceful gatherings as disturbances).
The violet ribbon, red butterfly flowers, and horse's head neither add up  nor feel arbitrary.
Most notably, Reels won't disappear after 24 hours or some other arbitrary amount of time.
Using the dollar as a bludgeon has already led to capricious and arbitrary decision-making.
Given those deficiencies, Mr Ross's move was "arbitrary and capricious", in violation of administrative law.
Arkansas has said the previous, human-based system was ripe for favoritism and arbitrary decisions.
Canada has condemned the detentions as "arbitrary," while China has repeatedly demanded Meng be released.
He is utterly unremarkable in still photographs, and his facial hair is uncommitted and arbitrary.
This system has been criticized in recent months for its seemingly arbitrary and opaque nature.
But this is a highly arbitrary process, and marginalized people can slip through the cracks.
The U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention did not respond to a request for comment.
In Foxwell's case, the denial seems arbitrary when the circumstances are compared with the regulations.
It seemed dumb and arbitrary, an app that would make a six-second video loop.
And authoritarians who stifle enterprise, dispense arbitrary justice and abuse their people ultimately will fail.
Why is there such an arbitrary limit on the number of songs you can save?
There's only room for one goofy watch on my arbitrary ranking of April Fools' jokes.
"The government also assured us of protection from any arbitrary or unlawful crackdown," Qureshi said.
Tierra's greatest talent is her ability to make melodic songs from topics that feel arbitrary.
That ought to be a huge boon for a continent divided by arbitrary colonial borders.
In 2014, he complained to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention about his situation.
They banged on about the Tories' failure to take Bury, an arbitrary and unrealistic yardstick.
They randomly divided the boys into two arbitrary groups called the Rattlers and the Eagles.
This is a very costly regulation that is made more damaging by the arbitrary deadline.
Antitrust laws make all sorts of pricing behavior illegal, usually based on arbitrary criteria. Sen.
Many scientists refused to accept that decision, especially Alan Stern, finding it to be arbitrary.
Instead, I thought I'd take you along for what is necessarily a somewhat arbitrary ride.
Posting is an art form, and Twitter's arbitrary limit sharpened good posts into pithy masterpieces.
" "The United Nations formally ruled his detention to be arbitrary, a violation of human rights.
Then they redivided them, in a different arbitrary way, and analysed those results in turn.
Frederick is a terrible decision giving school authorities arbitrary and unconstitutional power to suppress speech.
After arbitrary detention, soldiers killed two of them by breaking their necks, the Commission said.
Current forest management policies are arbitrary, outdated and unresponsive to changing conditions on the ground.
They argued the FCC's move was "arbitrary and capricious" and violated the Administrative Procedures Act.
The ancient writ is obtrusive by nature to protect Americans from arbitrary searches and seizures.
All of this highlights the often arbitrary and mysterious nature of shareholder voting on takeovers.
We wear different badges from full-time employees, which reinforces this arbitrary and discriminatory separation.
For starters, it protected consumers from arbitrary interest-rate increases by prohibiting retroactive rate hikes.
Thousands of cases of harassment of government critics and arbitrary arrests and detentions were reported.
Clinton has come out against all of the sequester, framing its spending restrictions as arbitrary.
If you are a questioner, you likely think January 1st is a completely arbitrary date.
Opposition leaders slammed the government for arbitrary use of force in breaking up Monday's demonstrations.
We're lucky to live in a time when TV creators have freedom from arbitrary constraints.
To later readers, it can seem arbitrary and tangential, which is why it's often forgotten.
He said the police's arbitrary control of their phones and internet is not about security.
We wear different badges from full-time employees, which reinforces this arbitrary and discriminatory separation.
For the artist, "nature symbolizes truth," whereas cultural constructions of race and gender are arbitrary.
All these things I'm doing, at some point I thought they were just completely arbitrary.
Canada has condemned the detentions as "arbitrary", while China has repeatedly demanded Meng be released.
The court said employees made a "mass exodus" because of the "crazy arbitrary stuff" occurring.
Combining supposedly found images of figures against solid backgrounds, they have an arbitrary, Surrealist air.
It's arbitrary, forced on them against their nature, and a poor economic decision as well.
Early choices, or sometimes relatively arbitrary initial conditions, end up shaping future events and technologies.
We rolled joints and smoked them, mugging for the camera and laughing about arbitrary things.
This is a textbook example of "arbitrary and capricious" conduct — exactly what the law prohibits.
It points out the pretentiousness, weakness, and arbitrary nature of contemporary art production and display.
Is this how American companies should respond to dictatorial demands and arbitrary, unjust legal codes?
In February, Amnesty International called for an end to the "arbitrary travel ban" on him.
It's wrong to think about literacy as just one restricted developmental zone, one arbitrary hurdle.
But because the target is circumstantial and sometimes arbitrary, one's sense of fairness is violated.
Any sports fan knows the frustration of watching a game with arbitrary and unpredictable refereeing.
It sounds like an arbitrary change, but it's one that creates some pretty interesting opportunities.
The Trump administration had shown that it could retrieve American citizens from arbitrary detention abroad.
Instead of arbitrary caps, the percentage of deductibility would decrease as the homeowner's income increases.
Rather than providing useful information about intrinsic candidate strengths, it can all feel disturbingly arbitrary.
They do have difficulty changing the focus of their attention in response to arbitrary commands.
Upset about the arbitrary/cruel decision to end all US adoptions,even those in process.
The subsequent arrests, based only on those statements, were arbitrary and illegal, the review said.
I've used an arbitrary distance scale (for now) in made-up units of, er, u.
" CCTV warned that, "Freedom of speech does not mean that it can be arbitrary nonsense.
Fifteen people died in police or army operations involving presumed arbitrary detentions, the U.N. added.
"Well, that's Russia," even when the cruelty and arbitrary violence comes directly to its door.
And the Constitution would be applied in a manner that is mercurial, arbitrary, and unfair.
For example, the butcher should carve the animal at its joints, not in arbitrary locations.
Deciding whether a commercial is solely commercial or qualifies as political speech is, therefore, arbitrary.
"It's a mistake to set arbitrary targets like some folks are doing," Graves told Harder.
Brownback said Friday the detentions of Uyghurs were "arbitrary" and based on their religious practices.
Canada has called the detentions arbitrary and are calling for Kovrig and Spavor's immediate release.
Is there some predictability to this upheaval or is it instead arbitrary, spontaneous and disjointed?
Come for the hype and the arbitrary nostalgia – stay for the cast and the finale.
Mauritania's government has repeatedly denied restricting the activities of rights groups or making arbitrary arrests.
A decade is an arbitrary thing, but the one now ending gave us remarkable writing.
Banks regard the rule as an arbitrary restraint, and Republicans would like to erase it.
Their subsequent arrests, based on those statements, were arbitrary and illegal, the first review found.
Executive contracts with noncompete clauses typically include lucrative buyout provisions and protections from arbitrary treatment.
"My arrest this morning is outrageous and arbitrary," Ghosn told CNN Business via a spokesperson.
Immigration lawyers and companies seeking the visas say that some of the decisions appear arbitrary.
It's almost as if the Republican Party considers "life" to be a completely arbitrary notion.
Political commentary is biased toward the horse race and toward slightly arbitrary notions of expectations.
The only constraint would be their actual concern over the deficit, not arbitrary Senate rules.
HRW has said such plans would violate international law which forbids arbitrary detention without trial.
" Jacobs ponders the art-text connection further: "I like to play with format, mostly because it often feels like the major storytelling formats people write in—novel, short story, plays, screenplays—are sort of arbitrary, and there's really only a handful of those arbitrary options.
"When lecturing to my class one security researcher described the mentality: 'You have to, like, have an innate understanding that [a security measure is] arbitrary, it's an arbitrary mechanism that does something that's unnatural and therefore can be circumvented in all likelihood,' " she writes.
Now presumably present, people ''triage any administrative and logistical issues,'' or yell out arbitrary personal concerns.
These examples show how people of color are subject to arbitrary social expectations and heightened scrutiny.
The arbitrary nature of the Iraqi travel ban was underlined by the fact that Lt. Gen.
Rights groups claimed people were beaten and subjected to arbitrary detentions under the previous emergency rule.
"Arbitrary deadlines, unilateral pronouncements and shifting goalposts are counterproductive in addressing common threats," the ministry said.
People like this definition of 20% down as a bear market, but that's obviously very arbitrary.
Attackers had arbitrary script injection on thousands of sites including many NHS websites here in England.
The story the AP wrote — full of arbitrary math, sensationalistic tweets, and strange insinuations — is not.
Not only are our interpretations of the world often arbitrary, but we're often overconfident in them.
And yet the Muslim Brotherhood is far from extinct, despite the mass arrests and arbitrary killings.
We are often attracted to arbitrary things that don't tell us much about underlying genetic quality.
"Conditions on the ground, not arbitrary timetables, will guide our strategy from now on," Trump said.
"The government's arbitrary actions only increase our dissatisfaction toward them," the student activist told BuzzFeed News.
The chief justice, Dipak Misra, called the ban on gay sex "irrational, indefensible and manifestly arbitrary".
That's not the case anymore — though apps do need to be updated to support arbitrary resizing.
As such, I decided to look at two different — and admittedly slightly arbitrary — measures of success.
But on a press call, Hincapié said that arbitrary timeframe is unworkable for plaintiffs like hers.
YOU SAID THE NIKE PRODUCT HAS BECOME SYNONYMOUS WITH SLAVE WAGES, FORCED OVERTIME AND ARBITRARY ABUSES.
The Subsidiary is essentially about subjection and heteronomy, about being at the whim of arbitrary authority.
"These include unlawful killings, torture, arbitrary detention, gang rape, slavery, forced labour and extortion," it said.
But wearing wired earbuds as opposed to AirPods is mainly a pointless, arbitrary display of superiority.
He's programmed to be arbitrary and spontaneous, and that can lead to children believing he's cognizant.
ONE definition of a liberal is a person who supports individual rights and opposes arbitrary power.
While that may seem like a big but arbitrary milestone, it's an important one for Microsoft.
All too often, foreign governments deploy regulations or standards in an arbitrary way to block imports.
The opposition said its workers faced arbitrary arrests and candidates were attacked by ruling party activists.
Nobody officially questions prohibitions against slavery, genocide, murder, torture, prolonged arbitrary discrimination and systematic racial discrimination.
But they didn't, and it's a sign of how fleeting and even arbitrary success can feel.
As arbitrary as it may seem, it gave me permission to be proud of my body.
Now celebrities are not afraid to speak out about how arbitrary — and outdated — that system is.
Maybe this kind of seemed arbitrary to some of the instructors, and we're realizing that now.
He also argued that setting the 2025 date was an arbitrary decision not backed by science.
If this all seems like a lot of strange, arbitrary positioning to you, you're not wrong.
Presenting MoviePass access as arbitrary and subject to political maneuvering is hardly a consumer-friendly tactic.
In the matrix, the power of the creator is absolute; and it's not arbitrary at all.
However, we all know that time is a flat circle, which makes this term completely arbitrary.
"In these circumstances, the execution of these six individuals would constitute arbitrary executions," the experts said.
Failing that, the government should at least stop putting arbitrary caps on the populations of megacities.
Limiting outdoors culture to a "white people thing" seemed more arbitrary and inaccurate than ever before.
Simply hitting some arbitrary spec is not the same as illustrating that the spec is enough.
Ethnic delegates have complained about what they saw as an arbitrary schedule set by the government.
At a minimum, the Senate's absurd and arbitrary 60-vote threshold should be dropped for good.
I don't even remember when it came out because of this arbitrary four-month lead up.
As Mark Joseph Stern writes for Slate, this sets a  precedent of using an arbitrary, capricious
BBC News reports that China's citizens have been confused by the arbitrary nature of the ban.
What's troubling is the arbitrary and extralegal way this government is going about investigating these cases.
In El Salvador, they told women not to get pregnant for two years, an arbitrary number.
These limitations laws "limit" prosecutions to a prescribed, arbitrary window of time after the alleged crime.
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) is expected to announce its decision on Friday.
Moreno's lawyer, Jose Luis Castillo, said the decision was arbitrary and that he planned to appeal.
It also shows how people of color are subject to arbitrary social expectations and heightened scrutiny.
Residents and human rights monitors say extra-judicial killings, rape and arbitrary arrests have taken place.
However, the inevitable gaming of those arbitrary demarcations has been a driver for reforming Dodd-Frank.
"I think it's clear disruption of a press conference is not an arbitrary reason," Burnham said.
"A government of laws and not of men can never tolerate that arbitrary power," Gorsuch wrote.
Recently we described how arbitrary drug expiration dates cause us to toss safe and potent medicine.
But critics say it is an arbitrary policy that could limit the effectiveness of federal agencies.
In Egypt Mr Sisi's rule is proving as oppressive as it is arbitrary and economically incompetent.
I will support her steadfast bravery against the arbitrary, unfair, irrational constraints set by Chairman Grassley.
It doesn't necessarily happen elsewhere, that the arbitrary arrest and jailing of journalists has economic impact.
When courts review agency decisions, they strike down those made in an "arbitrary and capricious" fashion.
Among the inmates' demands were the release of political prisoners and an end to arbitrary trials.
"The idea of imposing an arbitrary deadline like this is just horrific to me," said Haskett.
It requires that Federal agencies may not be "arbitrary and capricious" in changing or nixing regulations.
Many Democrats have criticized what they deem to be an arbitrary time limit to the investigation.
Unrelated to the Title IX complaint, he also abruptly fired other students for apparently arbitrary reasons.
Even though our nation was founded, in part, in rebellion against the arbitrary authority of monarchy.
If Americans truly cherish their free speech, they should reject arbitrary and restrictive limitations on it.
The United Nations committee, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, is under the Human Rights Council.
Some people can cross, others cannot, and the difference is sometimes literally arbitrary, determined by lottery.
He also praised Trump's decision not to impose "arbitrary" deadlines on the American mission in Afghanistan.
The gap in Medicaid funding for Puerto Rico is the product of two arbitrary policy decisions.
To him, it felt arbitrary, so he called around to his investors to better understand why.
Trump should "learn more about the facts" before discussing "arbitrary cuts in the program," he added.
The Law of Parties stands as a grotesque demonstration of how utterly arbitrary capital punishment is.
While curious individually, the work's many elements, cobbled together, amount to an arbitrary sequence of events.
There are some wrinkles and a load of arbitrary exceptions, which only adds to the confusion.
Those promises cannot be met under the pressure of compressed and arbitrary time and page limits.
And an arbitrary assumption in one part of the model can affect everything else in it.
The decision came after investors and proxy voting advisers complained that Dimon's pay was too arbitrary.
The Supreme Court upholds administrative agency actions alleged to be arbitrary 92 percent of the time.
I don't have great reasons for cutting some of these; ultimately, it's all kind of arbitrary.
The cabaret law is an arbitrary rule that really put unnecessary oversight on the nightlife industry.
The criticism around her appointment can be described as arbitrary at best, and chilling at worst.
To the Editor: History, political expediency and arbitrary rules have caught up with the Catholic Church.
Identities are represented with private, seemingly arbitrary strings of letters and numbers known as cryptographic keys.
But by July 4, exasperation at the seemingly arbitrary nature of the arrangement had set in.
"These include unlawful killings, torture, arbitrary detention, gang rape, slavery, forced labor and extortion," it said.
The folly reflects an all-too-common reliance on arbitrary boundaries for defining public health issues.
"Così" explores the baffling truth that romance may be more arbitrary than we like to admit.
But hormonal contraceptives are often not enough to get testosterone down to the arbitrary permissible level.
"For the Canadian leader to use 'arbitrary' to describe Schellenberg's trial in China was extremely irresponsible."
They set arbitrary dollar limits for health care services, leading to huge surprise bills for consumers.
President Trump's use of numbers in his public statements and tweets has always been somewhat arbitrary.
It's a reminder that people of color are subject to arbitrary social expectations and heightened scrutiny.
"'We don't like the person or their politics,' would be arbitrary and capricious," Mr. Sandler said.
But in the somewhat arbitrary, mildly mysterious way in which these things happen, it became huge.
It's a very arbitrary decision to pay them some amount of money to shut them up.
In China, summary executions and the arbitrary killing of opponents were the order of the day.
Furthermore, letting people apply losses to other tax years helps businesses deal with the arbitrary Dec.
In an appearance on "Good Morning America," Ms. Attah said the marshal's response was not arbitrary.
Second, the kind of arbitrary process Souter had in mind is one that is without reason.
Lists are bullshit, but they're fun bullshit because they force you to make completely arbitrary decisions.
It's a somewhat arbitrary analysis, but it may hint at what some investors are hoping for.
Rights advocates say the prisoners are plunged into a judicial system that is mysterious and arbitrary.
The task of pushing a little ball to the center of a platform was completely arbitrary.
" Bridgeton Landfill disagrees with the EPA's plan, calling the agency's decision to excavate "arbitrary and capricious.
I am curious about the impact on their wealth when he makes these seemingly arbitrary announcements.
It's not an arbitrary regimen: "YouTube's algorithm promotes channels that are releasing frequent content," Dawn explains.
Giving up your active work life just because you have reached an arbitrary age is ridiculous.
Challengers argue that the rescission was "arbitrary and capricious" in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act.
Far from arbitrary, these prices are contingent on a variety of factors, just like interest rates.
Which is back to your question on December 15th, David, there's no arbitrary deadlines here, okay?
Despite long arbitrary detentions — in some cases up to 10 months — indictments have not been prepared.
Civilians were further harmed, they said, by the coalition's arbitrary restrictions on shipping and air travel.
The collection is neither quite right nor quite wrong, which is to say it is arbitrary.
The arbitrary line drawn between 17 and 18 should not prevent Kavanaugh's character from being impugned.
"It is an affront to their dignity and an arbitrary interference with their right to privacy." 
His was a voice of reason in a Formula One world that can often be arbitrary.
On the ground, these programs can make Israeli offers of help seem somewhat arbitrary and capricious.
The theme entries (denoted by asterisks) are a seemingly arbitrary and somewhat odd list of phrases.
"Federal Defendants' decision not to initiate the NEPA process proves arbitrary and capricious," Judge Morris wrote.
The storming of the Bastille represented the destruction of a hated symbol of arbitrary royal power.
A United Nations panel ruled earlier this year that Assange's living situation amounts to arbitrary detention.
For others, an arbitrary calendar date isn't inspiration enough to get people into a gym regularly.
The less quantitative the process gets, the higher the potential for arbitrary factors to corrupt it.
Assange's legal team has intensified its calls for Sweden to adhere to a non-binding opinion by the United Nations working group on arbitrary detention, which stated in February that their client's confinement in the embassy should be considered as arbitrary detention enforced by Sweden and Britain.
On a previous trip, we found that police and military raids in low-income and immigrant communities over the past year have led to widespread allegations of abuse, including extrajudicial killings, mass arbitrary detentions, maltreatment of detainees, forced evictions, the destruction of homes and arbitrary deportations.
In a carefully worded statement that garnered support outside the university for Weinstein's position, the biology professor characterized the event, in effect, as a show of arbitrary power by a coalition of groups that have struggled over time to overcome their own subordination to arbitrary power.
Amnesty International's report on the state of the world's human rights documents how 2017 saw the arbitrary and brutal suppression of the right to peaceful protest in more than 20 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, including through unlawful bans, excessive use of force, harassment and arbitrary arrests.
And "Them Bones," the Alice in Chains song, seemed an arbitrary jolt of in-your-face intensity.
It's because of a well-intended but arbitrary policy known as the Windfall Elimination Provision, or WEP.
If you're up on the [insert arbitrary time period here] that's good; if you're down, that's bad.
But the properties of individual quarks seemed arbitrary, and in another universe they might have been different.
The Administrative Procedures Act (APA) says government agencies may not be "arbitrary and capricious" when changing regulations.
"There are no medical reasons for any of these arbitrary dates to be chosen," Dr. Horvath says.
These trade rules were designed precisely to stop the arbitrary and capricious behavior that Trump is proposing.
As states scramble to implement arbitrary new lethal injection protocols, the cruelty of the procedure only worsens.
Does someone make an arbitrary decision, or does the asset have to hit a threshold of worth?
While it has helped develop some effective interventions, it is fundamentally unreliable, kind of arbitrary, and confusing.
The difference might seem arbitrary, but at the current point in time, identity is everything to Sivan.
At the same time, the Process isn't arbitrary enough that we can safely discount it as misguided.
But we absolutely believe in our constitutional right to earn a living free from arbitrary government interference.
The first would be opposition to arbitrary power, and as a consequence, a commitment to social equality.
Since Valve ultimately made the call on including games, the process could also seem arbitrary and opaque.
Because if accepting the arbitrary standards of beauty is surrender, it is also a kind of sacrifice.
Stratford urged negotiators should get the agreement right and not rush talks to meet an arbitrary deadline.
In the country's slums, arbitrary lists of supposed drug-users determine who will be shot to death.
The area's arbitrary Soviet-era borders had separated many families, who are delighted by the new opening.
After her death, arbitrary cliques and clichés matter less than the ubiquitous loss haunting the student body.
One study from 2017 found that people have a hard time remembering names, because they're relatively arbitrary.
An arbitrary limit on the choice of search engine your users can pick seems a telling example.
Another solution is to invest in x number of companies per partner, which is even more arbitrary.
The problem is that a lot of this tech has felt weirdly arbitrary, shoehorned into our foyers.
Human-rights campaigners fear that such technology has already been used to monitor activists, enabling arbitrary detention.
However, the actual, not-completely-arbitrary, laws-of-physics cutoff is a bit harder to precisely define.
Now, with the prospect of being taken into arbitrary detention by China, that safety is at risk.
The choice of whom to include, how many speeches to use, and which ones was somewhat arbitrary.
The highest court in Washington state struck down capital punishment, finding that itis "arbitrary and racially biased".
The FAA issued ridiculous and arbitrary rules that allow airlines to cap how much they offer volunteers.
Ryan worries more about crossing Trump than he does about Trump crossing some arbitrary line of propriety.
Google's arbitrary suspension of the account of a presidential candidate should be of concern to all Americans.
These aren't arbitrary edicts; vexillological expert Ted Kaye canonized them in his book, Good Flag, Bad Flag.
The procedure act prohibits actions by federal agencies that are arbitrary, capricious or an abuse of discretion.
Here is Ghosn's full statement on his re-arrest: My arrest this morning is outrageous and arbitrary.
Valve's content controls on Steam aren't clear, and in fact seem rather arbitrary most of the time.
There is nothing arbitrary or strange about a Genesis Breyer P-Orridge show at The Rubin Museum.
Linking strategic arms control and sanctions policy also implies that the latter is purely political and arbitrary.
The choice to start the demo portion off with the iPod part of the iPhone wasn't arbitrary.
Arbitrary arrests of sex workers are common, despite a High Court order in 20093 specifically banning it.
This is why the CMS process is not an auction at all, but an arbitrary pricing process.
Insurance companies could set arbitrary limits on annual care, exclude behavioral health benefits, or deny coverage altogether.
Assange sent a complaint about his situation to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in 2014.
The prevailing belief among linguists had been that the sounds used to form those words were arbitrary.
RDF, or the Resource Description Framework, is basically a grammar for describing certain properties of arbitrary resources.
In a letter on Wednesday, 70 Democrats urged Congress to remove the "arbitrary" cap on TSA screeners.
I'm certain there are reasons behind these seemingly arbitrary rituals of flying, but they aren't always obvious.
" And the Times thundered: "Diplomacy is hard enough when foes act in a belligerent and arbitrary way.
Third, the process for judging the adequacy of Living Wills has been criticized as arbitrary and opaque.
"It would have driven us insane to not draw some boundaries, even if arbitrary," Mr. Coker said.
It's all so arbitrary and exhausting I'm not even sure why I'm continuing to write this sentence.
Second, it creates a system of haves and have-nots among military families based on arbitrary criteria.
Clinton's arbitrary standards, what does this say about President Obama's lack of leadership the last eight years?
The United States should prioritize maintaining access to the nuclear program rather than making arbitrary breakout timelines.
Determining who is eligible for this life-saving treatment should not be done by arbitrary age requirements.
Chutkan agreed, calling the Trump administration's decision to reverse the rule "arbitrary and capricious," according to Reuters.
Recall that goofy, arbitrary Flood Risk Management Standard that would have elevated bridges high above flooded roads.
Finally, Congress needs to lift the arbitrary workforce cap it placed on full-time hires at TSA.
They include charges of arbitrary arrest and detention, denial of due process and curtailment of free expression.
With 9 Republicans left, I call on the RNC to get rid of arbitrary requirements for debates.
"There are a lot of arbitrary practices," said Andrew Gardner, a researcher on Turkey for Amnesty International.
Arbitrary exceptions and complicated rules are making it hard to figure out how it will be applied.
The opinion of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has not been publicly released yet.
The seemingly arbitrary division has roused incomprehension and bitterness among an estimated 13,000 Afghans stuck in Greece.
Assignments are arbitrary and quite literally random, chosen from a pool of different things you can do.
Regulations and codes require a standard that can be upheld, otherwise decisions can be arbitrary and capricious.
Developed in residence at the Society for Art and Technology (SAT), the installation's name is not arbitrary.
People on hunger strike are among "nearly 150,000 people arbitrary dismissed" since the coup attempt, she said.
We therefore cannot take arbitrary decisions favouring a project, or blocking another on the basis of preferences.
Is this month significant to women's history, or is it just an arbitrary month on the calendar?
So their wage may be extremely low for arbitrary reasons beyond the person's physical capacity or control.
And women, some certainly more than others, know what it means to navigate life's daily, arbitrary pain.
"We can't be driven by some arbitrary timeline," Daniel Elwell, the acting F.A.A. administrator, said on Thursday.
The Fourth Amendment was written to protect against arbitrary searches and seizures of property by the government.
Republicans, who have criticized the SIFI process as opaque and arbitrary, have introduced legislation to curb it.
" In September, a federal judge ruled that Ms. DeVos's delay was illegal, calling it "arbitrary and capricious.
Journal rejections and conference feedback could be arbitrary and cruel, but at least they usually weren't personal.
Saving for college bribery is an expensive process, larded with arbitrary costs and unforeseen criminal cover-ups.
Federal policymakers should consider whether harsh, arbitrary enforcement in non-egregious immigration cases is worth the cost.
Many workers said they had been frustrated by what they considered a harsh and arbitrary management style.
He explained that in Mr. Sorey's hands, seemingly arbitrary rearrangements can actually make a performance more electric.
Their dissents recognized that the death penalty is inherently arbitrary and commonly racist and hence never permissible.
It was an arbitrary decision, and one that was out of step with the company's stated policies.
And all these deadlines were completely arbitrary, because there was no rush to do any of it.
Next, to circumvent the time problem, I created an arbitrary time unit, which I called fake seconds.
Requiring government actors to be answerable to the people protects the public from arbitrary and tyrannical governance.
"This government acts in a manner that is almost the definition of arbitrary and capricious," he said.
It's now a strange political weapon, extremely powerful but available only in certain limited and arbitrary circumstances.
Levy discovers she is not exempted from certain hard truths: Fate is arbitrary and beyond our control.
It's an arbitrary line in the sand, but one he himself touted in many pre-inauguration boasts.
"A save — it is an arbitrary number," Los Angeles Angels Manager Mike Scioscia said over the winter.
The government will start to bully ordinary people for arbitrary things like race, religion, political views, etc.
"March 1 was always an arbitrary deadline," said Craig Allen, president of the US-China Business Council.
"Vague laws lend themselves to arbitrary enforcement, which can be used in a discriminatory way," Knapp said.
Life seems random, a pointless series of events that, at some arbitrary point in time, just stop.
These distinctions are necessarily arbitrary, but I find it useful to split Google into three distinct eras.
The United Nations' own Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) has ruled on many of these cases.
Colas said those traders can cause individual stock prices to swing wildly on arbitrary and noneconomic information.
The bill, he argued, included arbitrary phase-ins and expirations designed to mask the bill's true costs.
The lack of transparency about moderation decisions, which can seem arbitrary, fuels conservative anxiety about Twitter's impartiality.
Libya is "not a safe port", Shamdasani said, citing documented killings, torture and arbitrary detention of migrants.
What is apparent is that Ryback is frustrated at what is certainly a strange, arbitrary wage structure.
Lawyers and rights groups say China's justice system is marked by torture, forced confessions and arbitrary detention.
In the lab they learn arbitrary sequences, following one flower to the next over hundreds of trials.
Bitcoin core developers coded a specific instruction, called OP_RETURN, to add 80 arbitrary bytes in a transaction.
He wrote that arbitrary British laws were one of the reasons the U.S. founders revolted against England.
The March 5 "deadline" may have been an arbitrary date when the administration picked it in September.
The official recently said torture appeared to be increasing, while reports of arbitrary arrests had not diminished.
The United Nations' top human rights official has said that could entail illegal "collective and arbitrary expulsions".
Patients are often left coordinating their own care among fragmented providers and dealing with arbitrary coverage decisions.
What's your completely arbitrary white whale that you've let drag all your enjoyment into the black depths?
The problem with the decision boundary approach to classification, says Clune, is that it's too absolute, too arbitrary.
Ahead, our very arbitrary ranking of the movies and TV shows with the word "American" in their titles.
This might well be better than the more complex and arbitrary turnout methods built by other media pollsters.
But in rural areas they are seen as efficient, at least, and willing to challenge arbitrary government power.
Nor can outside attorneys for potentially aggrieved parties (like Sekulow) impose self-serving, arbitrary limits on the testimony.
This discriminatory and arbitrary profiling also had wide-ranging and devastating effects on communities of immigrants already here.
The ACLU challenged this practice a decade ago to ensure that arbitrary and discriminatory passport denials would stop.
Probably for marketing reasons, they just set the patch level to almost an arbitrary date, whatever looks best.
The idea of imposing a week-long deadline on an investigation before it begins seems arbitrary and unserious.
Bankers, by contrast, are well aware that stock valuations are largely arbitrary, and realize that volatility is normal.
Non-citizens can face a harder path, as immigration agents can often deny entry for seemingly arbitrary reasons.
Both India and China are members of the World Trade Organisation, which forbids arbitrary bans on foreign goods.
Unfortunately, they provided limited information and made threats under arbitrary deadlines which were not reasonable under the circumstances.
"President Trump's withdrawal of federal guidance supporting protections for transgender students is arbitrary, misguided and cruel," he said.
Though arbitrary, that threshold has assumed huge symbolic importance among traders, economic officials and fund managers (see Buttonwood).
If it's true that he was pressured to drop the investigation, it's unlikely that was for arbitrary reasons.
It's not just the puzzles, it's things like the arbitrary rules for where enemies can and can't go.
Some force, subjective and arbitrary, has entered into scene with a character who is in fact projecting him.
If they kill off my favorites, I expect those deaths are going to feel arbitrary, manipulative, and cheap.
The ministry later issued its own travel warning, citing the "arbitrary detention" of a Chinese national in Canada.
But that decision can feel arbitrary and opaque to travelers who don't understand the vicissitudes of airline operations.
The reality exposed by journalists, NGOs and former detainees includes mass surveillance, arbitrary detentions, brainwashing and even torture.
Unfortunately, they provided limited information and made threats under arbitrary deadlines which were not reasonable under the circumstances.
The lawsuits are predicated on a simple proposition: the government cannot be arbitrary in its treatment of people.
If an arbitrary completion date isn't sufficient motivation for you, attach a consequence to not accomplishing your goal.
When the Department of Homeland Security rolled back DACA, its action was "arbitrary and capricious", Judge Alsup wrote.
Much of it has to do with the AFK's painfully convoluted and at times completely arbitrary admission criteria.
But it would reintroduce an arbitrary element to a system that is already an act of self-harm.
The U.S. government said the measures would help prevent unreasonable restrictions, such as the arbitrary blocking of websites.
Even the popular bike-sharing firms could one day find their business models undermined by arbitrary new rules.
Maybe they're just The Bad Place where the punishments are arbitrary, cruel, and incapable of creating meaningful change.
Given those deficiencies, he found Mr Ross's move to be "arbitrary and capricious", in violation of administrative law.
In practice, however, time zones and calendars are more than just arbitrary ways to rule lines on time.
We were just two people having a conversation about her life, with Eloise remembering even small, arbitrary details.
Seth and Summer challenged all the arbitrary social norms of the early 2000s, starting with this countertop confession.
What good was I doing myself to ignore and dismiss this pregnancy just because of some arbitrary timeline?
In the words of the APA, agencies may not alter rules for reasons that are "arbitrary and capricious".
Indeed, the PBOC likes to draw arbitrary lines and to defend them, before retreating gradually while tightening controls.
The United Nations sounded alarm last year that migrants there suffer arbitrary detention, forced labor, rape and torture.
They argue the FCC ran afoul of federal law prohibits federal agencies from passing "arbitrary or capricious" regulations.
I would like to know how they decided that the discount would be for that seemingly arbitrary amount.
Set aside the exact date when Kennedy was nominated, which, as Dickerson also suggested, is an arbitrary marker.
Some worry the information used could be arbitrary - such as the websites or television channels their families use.
"We should be using more holidays as arbitrary points to stop doing things," says the talk show host.
And we are hopeful we can do this quickly but we're not going to set an arbitrary deadline.
By imposing arbitrary rules, Iowa and Wisconsin have given their own residents incentive to take their talents elsewhere.
Families are taken away by the country's secret police for arbitrary crimes such as "gossiping" about the state.
Human rights groups have accused the government of arbitrary arrests and politically motivated prosecutions to silence its opponents.
Unless a statute requires a different standard, review occurs under the Administrative Procedure Act's "arbitrary and capricious" standard.
State security forces in Central America and Mexico are often accused of arbitrary detentions by human rights groups.
Fighting in Deir Ezzor intensified recently, including suicide bombings, mass abductions and arbitrary killings, rights activists have said.
Mauritania's government spokesman denied that the state restricted the activities of human rights groups or made arbitrary arrests.
"The petro is being set at an arbitrary value, which only exists in the government's imagination," Ramirez wrote.
A third aspect of ungovernability is the systematic corruption of constitutional norms, making political processes haphazard or arbitrary.
The courts will also invalidate a rule change that, in the substance of it, looks arbitrary to them.
All it takes is a little shift in perspective to realize the center is just another arbitrary point.
"Us" versus "them" does not need to be predicated on deep meaning: even arbitrary labels rapidly create bias.
Facebook has struggled to apply the rules, and the company's classifications have led to complaints of arbitrary judgement.
Two people meet on a date within a system that dictates an arbitrary time limit to all relationships.
In March the UN's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention urged Argentina's government to justify her detention in writing.
The dictatorship was responsible for countless human rights violations, including arbitrary arrests, sexual violence and hiding dead bodies.
The real good liar is whoever convinced Mirren and McKellen to class up such thin and arbitrary material.
All three courts found that the repeal was "arbitrary and capricious" in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act.
The first problem is that the five-year period is both arbitrary and, in some contexts, unnecessarily long.
Sherif's experiment showed how quickly conflict can arise between groups even when the divisions separating them are arbitrary.
But these small liberalising steps were overshadowed by the arbitrary locking up of feminists, plutocrats and many others.
Five were imprisoned for a year or more, on charges like blocking traffic, detentions the commission found arbitrary.
Still, he dislikes "setting down arbitrary timelines on an issue this important" and expressed skepticism about leadership's deadline.
Mattis appears to have resigned because this decision was made in an arbitrary way and without consulting allies.
And since there was no public market for these shares, the pricing of the shares was totally arbitrary.
But much as he prizes regional character, Howe is not wedded to any sort of arbitrary geographical boundaries.
Arbitrary coverage rules and anemic funding for transplants should make our nation's lawmakers sit up and take notice.
Indeed, it is the very type of arbitrary action the rule of law is designed to protect against.
"This has got to be one of the more arbitrary and capricious potential prosecutions I've seen," Cramer said.
Historically, ISIS has not been arbitrary in the attacks it claims have been carried out by its supporters.
We are concerned the badge is assigned in an arbitrary manner, or worse, based on fraudulent product reviews.
"EPA's action was arbitrary and capricious in any event," the ruling by two judges on the court said.
What they found in the ensuing 30-plus years, however, was that the six-month timeframe was arbitrary.
Yet they find themselves ineligible for military retirement benefits because they don't meet the arbitrary 28503-year standard.
It will turn some arbitrary midpoint of your torso back into a waist with its patented squeezing technology.
That whole process steals at most a few bytes of arbitrary data from one of the CPU's buffers.
Last year's arbitrary arrests of Saudi businessmen, government officials and even his uncles and cousins spooked global investors.
One of our favorite (if somewhat arbitrary) metrics at Crunchbase News is the count of supergiant venture rounds.
Having compared Steve Bruce and Big Sam in those five arbitrary categories, then, we're left with a tie.
It leaves us with the feeling—the same one we have every year—that this all basically arbitrary.
This is one holiday that shouldn't just be treated like an arbitrary day off of work or school.
The murders were arbitrary and backed by the force of law and institutions at all levels of government.
Critics accused Maduro's government of arbitrary detentions and the systematic use of torture against dissidents and military officers.
The speaker places a jar into a rural landscape where it imposes a fortuitous order on arbitrary nature.
Any court would hold that such an agency action is arbitrary, capricious and not in accordance with law.
His understanding of global trade is bilateral balance, which is as good as arbitrary, given global supply chains.
But Gorsuch worries that too much deference to regulatory agencies can make the regulatory process arbitrary and undemocratic.
Rights groups say the detentions are arbitrary and extralegal, sweeping up huge numbers of people on scant evidence.
As a policy matter, it's relatively aggressive but not unprecedented — and constrained by law from getting too arbitrary.
But their lessons run deep: Our interpretations of reality are often arbitrary, but we're stubborn about them nonetheless.
He acknowledged that the settlement process could appear arbitrary, but said quick reforms were what the kingdom needed.
It was an attempt to foreground the arbitrary by not going for one coherent image of Isabelle Eberhardt.
Even its less convincing bits — spells of arbitrary invention, shifting postmodern metaphors — come off as forms of playing.
As it stands, Chrome is changing itself to *not* support web standards across certain blurry and arbitrary lines.
"This deadline is completely arbitrary," said Katz, in between meetings with clients at the renewal clinic in Virginia.
But look at the news — full of arbitrary injustices and disasters, human beings treating each other with cruelty.
Spending time browsing here was among my most dismal shopping experiences in recent memory: joyless, arbitrary, spiritually empty.

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