An inauguration date of January 20 can seem arbitrary when a country is facing its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
Libya continues to be seen as a high-risk country with an arbitrary leader and a bewildering bureaucracy.
Electoral reform in Scotland and Wales has achieved its object of ensuring that a party without a majority of the votes cannot claim the arbitrary power of a sovereign majority, though the prime minister appears to have been surprised to discover that this was the case.
Another brother-in-law resigned as defence minister in November after a quarrel with Commodore Bainimarama over arbitrary taxes imposed on a bottler of mineral water.
Just a modicum of arbitrary confiscation will give you just a little bit of the inflation and mess that plagues, say, Argentina and Venezuela currently.
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This makes auditing a challenge as government requirements are sometimes arbitrary or relate to a specific dispute that may or may not be relevant.
Again, this is an arbitrary deadline on a number of moving parts politicians already kicked once from 2010 to 2013.
People know anywhere from 50, 000 to 100, 000 words, each of them an arbitrary pairing between a sound and a meaning.
The government has some goody to hand out, and in the course of doing so in an arbitrary way enriches a middleman.
It is entirely a function of an arbitrary budget "bogey" and a desperate, hasty effort to figure out how much can be maintained and acquired for that amount.
Several oil-services companies and politicians in Louisiana have challenged the drilling ban on the grounds that it is arbitrary and has a negative economic impact on the region.
David Sloan Wilson, of Binghamton University, in New York state, agrees with that point, but reckons the actual moral sense an individual acquires is not arbitrary, as a language is, but is functionally adapted to circumstances.
But union leaders say it will mean hundreds of arbitrary sackings, a version that has been vehemently denied by the Peruvian government but that has been carefully used by union leaders to manipulate the teachers to march.
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Yet, these are almost arbitrary headlines of a thirty-year-old all out overt asymmetrical war against the U.S. and its allies that began in 1979 for Iran and dates back even further for the leftists in Central and South America.
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There was a time when I might have speculated on the cause but then I learned that rather than continuously update my priors I should instead consider every piece of evidence in isolation and adhere strictly to the absolutely non-arbitrary standard of a 95% confidence interval.
An arbitrary starting point heck, a whole series of arbitrary starting points have been handed down, anchored into practice with insufficient adjustment, this irrational marketplace enduring in large part because the prices are opaque to most customers who, besides which, are protected from most of the expense because they have insurance.
You know, the kind of fragmentation that has already left users running not one, not two, not three, but four distinct versions of the little green guy (1.5, 1.6, 2.0, and 2.1) depending on a seemingly arbitrary formula of hardware, carrier, region, software customization, and manufacturers' ability to push updates in a timely fashion.
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Of course, for people outside of Silicon Valley, dividing the world like that is a bit arbitrary.
Which seems pretty arbitrary and based on a bunch of as-of-yet unelected politicians.
The Bolivarian state wants to rule in a most arbitrary manner and have its prerogatives above any civil group.
The court found on Tuesday that his arrest was "arbitrary", and a number of his human rights had been breached.
But as I've thought about it this year, I'm wondering if my stance is a bit arbitrary: I don't adhere to most of the rules and guidelines prescribed by Jewish dogma.
For Gazprom to succeed it needs to maintain a patina of respectability and fairness, something that will quickly become impossible if its persists in pricing its gas in such a completely arbitrary and haphazard manner.
First of all, it achieves the arbitrary goal -- utterly arbitrary goal -- of doing dollar-for-dollar in deficit reduction -- or spending cuts, rather -- and lifting of the debt ceiling -- a dangerously arbitrary goal, okay?
Unfortunately, in just four days, Congress is poised to allow a series of arbitrary, automatic budget cuts to kick in that will slow our economy, eliminate good jobs, and leave a lot of folks who are already pretty thinly stretched scrambling to figure out what to do.
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Whether you think spending cuts are good or bad, what are the odds politicians follow through faithfully with an automatic plan forged in the wake of a debate over an arbitrary marker particularly when the cast of players likely changes a bit this November (and two years hence, and two years hence, and two years hence)?
And a lot of these rules are arbitrary, and unstated. (One of the greatest arbitrary rules in our society is that you need a formal credential to be successful.) If you are creative, willing to take some risks, pick yourself up after some failures, and keep trying new approaches until you succeed, you can usually make your own game in life a wide open blue ocean with your own rules.
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Almost as bad as noncomputable problems are intractable ones (such as determining whether there is a guaranteed winning strategy for an arbitrary chess position), which cannot be solved in a reasonable amount of time.
As a type of arbitrary detention, RTL should not be reformed: it should be abolished outright.
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Faced with an arbitrary ceiling on spending, a determined Congress could easily turn those subsidies into tax credits.
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