Her decision to move was entirely arbitrary. From LearnThat.org.
An arbitrary decision. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
“But I know people that define art as anything that somebody has claimed to be art, effectively rendering the term arbitrary and useless.”. From Wordnik.com. [Row Three » Creepy New Trailer for Shyamalan’s The Happening - Where Cinema is more than just $100 Million productions] Reference
The existence of what we called arbitrary coherence. From Wordnik.com. [Dan Ariely: The Fallacy of Supply and Demand] Reference
As to the institutes of Genghiz Khân, which he calls arbitrary institutes, I never saw them. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12)] Reference
This he contends is the sole law of the country he governed, as laid down in what he calls the arbitrary Institutes of. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12)] Reference
His lawyer, David Mann, also pointed out what he described as the arbitrary nature of the government's responses to document requests. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
I don't know how to discern purpose in arbitrary systems. From Wordnik.com. [Bunny and a Book] Reference
Java and JavaScript should be modified so they cannot use external programs in arbitrary ways. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: January 20, 2002 - January 26, 2002 Archives] Reference
It was created by adding an apparently arbitrary "y" to the Greek word for 8 okto 1000-8=10-24. From Wordnik.com. [Yocto yok!] Reference
Making things feel inevitable and not arbitrary is a significant portion of the storyteller's craft. From Wordnik.com. [and the prison priests are decent. my attorney seems sincere.] Reference
The horizontal displacement (vertical axis) is in arbitrary units, because no scale was included in the photographs. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference
Christians, and even by the Russians, till the reign of Peter I The period, however arbitrary, is clear and convenient. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
When somebody has a way to perform an experiment to discern purpose in arbitrary systems, then you might have an argument. From Wordnik.com. [Bunny and a Book] Reference
31 There are some actions again which we call arbitrary, because their issue depends on an 'arbitrium' or order of the judge. From Wordnik.com. [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference
AIGUY: When somebody has a way to perform an experiment to discern purpose in arbitrary systems, then you might have an argument. From Wordnik.com. [Bunny and a Book] Reference
Others have been held in arbitrary detention, without any precise charges leveled against them and without any judicial oversight. From Wordnik.com. [mjh's blog — 2007 — June] Reference
DSM catagories are hardly "arbitrary" - they're drawn from decades of research and clinical experience - and they're certainly not. From Wordnik.com. [World of SL]
Provide a mechanism to call arbitrary Objective-C libraries. From Wordnik.com. [Miguel de Icaza] Reference
TM: Support calling arbitrary JSFastNatives from trace bug 470650. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Essential to the concept of absolutism was the notion of arbitrary rule. From Wordnik.com. [The State, That's Me!] Reference
Punishments are almost always arbitrary, which is a great defect in jurisprudence. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
Nor is it the party litigant or accused alone who rejects the idea of arbitrary justice. From Wordnik.com. [LEGAL PRECEDENT] Reference
Being able to tag arbitrary nodes in Amazon is interesting, as you can see from example pages on the site. From Wordnik.com. [Everyone Must Have Tags! - Anil Dash] Reference
These include synthetic scenarios (also referred to as arbitrary or incremental scenarios) and analogue scenarios. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to Future Climate Change~ Modeling and Scenarios for the Arctic] Reference
It sometimes merely means a king; but the idea of arbitrary power, whether well or ill used, is always involved in it. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2] Reference
And it is the bane of spiritual truth, for men, in the pretended declaration of it, to coin arbitrary distinctions, without. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Justification by Faith] Reference
Philosophy leads to the recognition that at the deepest level, this is arbitrary, which is an extraordinarily dangerous realization. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Krugman on ID - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
"arbitrary" - at least, as arbitrary as any atheistic attempt to define morality. From Wordnik.com. [Arizona Daily Wildcat] Reference
Even democrats say that it's kind of arbitrary and not particularly reasonable. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 14, 2009] Reference
We know full well that this kind of arbitrary cost-cutting in Medicare doesn't work. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicare reform illusion] Reference
Dr. BROOKS: As Im talking to you, every sound that comes out of my mouth has some kind of arbitrary meaning assigned to it. From Wordnik.com. [When Did We Become Mentally Modern?] Reference
So my question is, isn't that going to be difficult then to give export/import credits when you run that kind of arbitrary risk?. From Wordnik.com. [Background Briefing Japan] Reference
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