Sentences with phrase «arbitrary decision»

They put posters up, and they make arbitrary decisions about what's going to make people happy.

How many drivers will not be eager to share driving info with insurers and others either for privacy reasons or skepticism about what arbitrary decisions about them will be made based on that info?

Because of all these opportunities for arbitrary decision, only a small number of those convicted of capital crimes are actually executed.

Whether you are trying to save your local hospital or stop a sewage farm being built next to your village, your chances of challenging even the most arbitrary decision will be greatly reduced.

Of course, there are hundreds of online writing services nowadays, and choosing any, in particular, seems to be a rather arbitrary decision.

Seven Corners does not make arbitrary decisions on our members» files.

Every detail of our lives, as well as those of the universe, depends upon arbitrary decisions of God.

Not that it wasn't discriminatory, and not from a sort of arbitrary decision by the Committee that 200 years must be accepted.

In particular, national outlets did not highlight the role of state - appointed «emergency managers» who made arbitrary decisions based on budgetary concerns, including the catastrophic decision to draw Flint's water from the Flint River instead of Lake Huron (via the Detroit water system).

We are made up of individuals and associations all across British Columbia who believe the best way to protect those injured on the road and to provide stability for all road users is through established, inalienable rights — not arbitrary decisions that turn real people into a statistic.

by christian doctrine, we do not render ourselves sinful, it was one of those bizarre arbitrary decisions by god to bestow hereditary sin.

On the one hand, raising Jesus to himself can not simply be a purely arbitrary decision on God's part, but one made in response to the intrinsic quality of Jesus» life, suffering, and death.

Under such legacy laws, traditional districts remain the sole proprietor, able to make fairly arbitrary decisions about who else might benefit from these public goods.

Sunny's Nights is the story of Sultan's accidental foray into Red Hook, Brooklyn one summer night in 1995 and his almost arbitrary decision to drop in to a dimly lit, barely noticeable establishment that was soon to change his life.

Next I looked at my goals, made arbitrary decisions as to anticipated page counts (Young Adult = 180 pages, Single Title = 375 pages... your mileage may vary) and tried to anticipate how much time would be required for revision and polishing drafts.

As a practical matter, disputing an error can be a time - consuming, nearly impossible three - party negotiation between the credit bureau, the creditor and the individual — a negotiation for which the outcome is ultimately controlled by the sometimes arbitrary decision of the agency.17

What initially impresses with complex relational systems inevitably yields to simple, arbitrary decision branches.

if alcohol = blogs about alcohol, and laws = arbitrary decisions, then it must therefore be true that i am a hooker with a bad crack addiction.

As poverty on one side of the border is much the same as poverty on another, it seems much more logical to me to include all of humanity within our zone of moral responsibility, but I am aware that this is an essentially arbitrary decision.

If talks between the couple and their counsel fail, it could end up in court, she says, which is «never a really good idea because judges often make arbitrary decisions without much input from the parents.»

Regulators tried, but the individual market pre-ACA was very much a Wild West of policies that didn't cover what you thought they did, lack of recourse, lack of availability of coverage, insurers making seemingly arbitrary decisions, and health expenses that were out of control.

In an era in which female teachers were routinely fired for getting married or wearing pants, teachers needed protection from paternalistic employment laws, unfair rules, and arbitrary decisions by administrators.

Lamacchia said a five - member board would help reduce the potential for arbitrary decision making that can occur under a single leader, providing the agency with greater accountability.

Williamson also criticizes the somewhat arbitrary decision to use a 15 - year trend line to make projections.

This has led to a patchwork of arbitrary decisions about what is tolerable.

More than 75 % of company retreats are absolute failures dominated by «circular conversations and way too much partying» because they «are arbitrary decisions based on a task and not a result,» says Alan Weiss, an organizational development consultant with a client list that ranges from JPMorgan Chase and the U.S. Federal Reserve to Hewlett - Packard and Mercedes - Benz.

Without evidence, government makes arbitrary decisions that have the potential to negatively affect the daily lives of Canadians.

December 25th signifies nothing more than an arbitrary decision made in 4th century CE Rome.

No longer will predestination be... the arbitrary decision of an absolute sovereign power.

Faith and unbelief are never blind, arbitrary decisions.

Where truth concerns the whole man it has necessarily to do with the institutional, as far as this, taken in a very wide sense of the word, represents that reality through which the other has a true importance for myself even before being accepted by the arbitrary decision of the individual.

The commitment is not an arbitrary decision to be loyal.

But a pastor must resist the temptation to build fences around the fences of dogma and moral prohibition, thereby constructing middle realms in which arbitrary decision will be a temptation and will in any case be perceived.

The research shows that the medical practice of doctors and parents making arbitrary decisions to make invasive and irreversible surgical changes to an inter-sex child's body and to raise the child as a boy or a girl to match the surgical adjustments has failed in fifty percent of the cases.

It is not just a subjective or arbitrary decision, but needs to be grounded in the reality of our existence.

i replaced the Tapioca (which part to replace was an arbitrary decision) with hazelnut flour.

«Its not an arbitrary decision on who gets what.

«I know that 96 % of the problems in that constituency were caused by the party; the arbitrary decision in the change of date by the General Secretary brought about these controversies.

«It is important to note that the committee only endorsed a ruling by the court; this is not an arbitrary decision by the party as being speculated by Nii Noi's supporters».

The NASUWT remains in dispute with the Government over adverse changes to teachers» pensions, including the arbitrary decision to increase their normal pension age.

Without waiting for the aspiring candidates to exhaust their constitutional rights to challenge her arbitrary decisions and determinations, she arrogantly proceeded to refer the aspiring candidates to the police for investigation for the commission of various offences alleged by her in her statement of reasons for disqualifying them.