Sentences with phrase «arbitrary decisions by»

Seemingly arbitrary decisions by dendro specialists on inclusion / exclusion of tree ring data has long been a source of criticism at Climate Audit.

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.

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

«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».

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

Not exact matches

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.

The case was brought by Verizon, which claimed the FCC's «decision to impose the rules was arbitrary and capricious,» the ruling says.

The idea that the capacity to receive from another or to be influenced by another is truly indicative of power is not derived from an arbitrary linguistic decision to extend the term «power» to include the receiving of an influence.

That's an arbitrary decision, but it's mine and I stand by it along with all the other picks on my ballot.

This came shortly after the Zac Goldsmith suggested that May's decision to reduce stop and search by an «arbitrary figure» had led to an increase in deaths.

«While we welcome the decision to end the arbitrary retirement age, raising the state pension age over this short timescale is clearly driven by a desire to cut spending rather than a planned approach to introducing more flexible retirement,» he said.

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.

Right off the bat, by defining a «fast food chain» that would be impacted by its decision, the board will «make distinctions that result in arbitrary and disparate treatment of businesses and their employees,» the council argues.

This comes just a week after Zac Goldsmith suggested the decision to reduce stop and search by an «arbitrary figure» had led to an increase in deaths in the city.

As mentioned earlier, by its nature this is an arbitrary decision.

Granted, the boost to starting salaries is not as great as some advocates would like — the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce has called for starting salaries of $ 45,000 — but remember that this new schedule is based on the arbitrary decision to reward credentials that improve test scores by 1 percent of a standard deviation with a 1 percent boost in salary.

All of higher education is negatively impacted by this decision, and to those of us who believe in the power of human reason to improve the human condition, the arbitrary and unsubstantiated basis of the decision moves us away from the cosmopolitan aspirations of democracy and of the Enlightenment, back to an age of darkness.

In a subsequent post on its website, the union went bonkers, claiming, «Corporate millionaires and special interests have mounted an all - out assault on educators by attempting to do away with laws protecting teachers from arbitrary firings, providing transparency in layoff decisions and supporting due process rights.»

In a series of questions about the state's dismissal laws, and whether they serve a useful purpose, Seymour agreed that they do, saying they help «protect teachers from arbitrary decisions that might be made by a principal or district for reasons not related to their teaching competence.»

But the court in a unanimous decision written by Justice Jaynee LaVecchia said Hendricks had met the required standard that the decision was not «arbitrary, capricious or unreasonable.»

Did any decision makers consider the good will that you have lost and will consider to lose by your unilateral and arbitrary changes in terms against us?

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

In a sharply worded 111 - page ruling, U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell said the 2012 decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to take the wolves off the list and hand management responsibilities over to Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin was «arbitrary and capricious» and violated the Endangered Species Act.

Similarly, citing 13 weeks of age as the termination of the Critical Period was merely an arbitrary decision made by researchers — a decision which had very little relevance to the social world of companion dogs.

By your same logic, you could argue that McIntyre's decision to treat all variance, even the trending non-stationary component, as «noise» is arbitrary.

These hypothetical Laffer models (GCMs) have the tax revenues (global temperatures) decoupled from expenditures (OLR) by arbitrary policy decisions (denialist handwaving).

Like Beck, Rees and Stern, Schmidt imagines a society, not comprised of autonomous, thinking agents, capable of negotiating their own risks and responding to their own «challenges»; but of a fragile system, which is closely dependent on stability for its own survival, imperilled by the arbitrary decisions and desire of so many unthinking, blind, and ignorant bodies.

These decisions make the adjusted ocean temperature series and trends in my view more uncertain and potentially arbitrary than those for the land — and the ocean outweighs the land by a factor of 70/30.

Given the life changing decisions made by immigration judges, arbitrary quotas should be placed on how many cases they need to rush through in any given day or week.

... we may not consider the correctness of the court's ruling de novo or second guess its exercise of discretion... Rather, we are limited to a determination of whether the court's decision was «manifestly unsupported by reason or so arbitrary that it could not have been the result of a reasoned decision.»

Speaking generally, it may be true (as Laws J said in a passage also quoted by Lord Bingham from R v Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Ex p First City Trading [1997] 1 CMLR 250, 278 - 279) that «Wednesbury and European review are two different models — one looser, one tighter — of the same juridical concept, which is the imposition of compulsory standards on decision - makers so as to secure the repudiation of arbitrary power».

A great example of how disruptive this data - driven approach to understanding your customers can be is NetFlix, which has started developing original series into hits by taking out the guesswork about what their audiences might want and replacing it with extensive knowledge gleaned from customer usage data, and putting the traditional Hollywood content development model of instinct, experience and arbitrary hope & pray decision - making to shame in the process.

The decision to use the period in the first instance was an arbitrary one, made by commercial legal publishers seeking to brand their key products in the legal marketplace.

Many databases of administrative tribunal decisions have arbitrary start dates that result in the omitting of key decisions in the area regulated by the administrative tribunal.

plaint of Judge Louire in dissent, not a result of an arbitrary policy decision by the en banc majority.

The decision to talk about the issue was also influenced by an April 2013 report by the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions detailing ethical, legal, and other concerns raised by lethal autonomous robots.

To avoid an arbitrary decision made by the court, you would be wise to learn more about how child custody decisions are made and the laws in your particular state.

Working through the details is best done when both sides can participate in joint discussions rather than having an arbitrary decision thrust on them by a judge.

A suit filed by a Guam organization claiming that the federal government's decision to sharply reduce the percentage of requests for H2B temporary worker visas it approves is arbitrary and harmful to Guam's economy.