The program documented other unhealthy changes, brought about by inbreeding and a quest for arbitrary standards for what certain breeds should look like: Dachsund's have been elongated, and their legs made smaller, leading to serious back problems. (ohmidog.com)
And I'm tired of the various «caucuses» setting arbitrary standards entirely of their own creation, then decreeing that whomever does not meet that standard is «disrespecting» them. (nystateofpolitics.com)
Niebuhr said that moral pride «is revealed in all «self - righteous» judgments in which the other is condemned because he fails to conform to the highly arbitrary standards of the self. (religion-online.org)