Sentences with phrase «arbitrary line between»

Are we not looking at an unnecessarily arbitrary line between an intention to amuse and an intention to defraud -LSB-?]

For them, there is no ethical contradiction, the hospital wall being only an arbitrary line between in - patient and out - patient.

It invents an arbitrary line between citizen - enemies and alien enemy combatants, holding that flexible and uncertain rights to a «hearing» on their combatant status must be accorded to certain classes of combatants.

Not exact matches

Where there was no longer any common standard or perspective, the line was not easily drawn between a just freedom of responsible judgement and the play of arbitrary preference.

But Bergson has pointed out the arbitrary nature of the dividing line drawn by commonsense between the zone of «organic» determinisms and that of «spontaneity» in the course of embryogenesis.

In the post, the author discussed the arbitrary lines drawn between «spanking» and «abuse,» as well as the rationales given for corporal punishment.

The boundaries we've got are fairly arbitrary (for instance, the line between Machester and Salford, or Manchester and Trafford) and we need to act with greater cooperation.

«With respect to a records retention policy, my belief is the nature of the communication and its significance should determine how long it should be kept, and there likely should not be an arbitrary dividing line between retention and disposal,» Freeman said.

Others there also tried to make clear the point that the line drawn between a «5» and a «4» is arbitrary and the risk of strong storms is based on physics of large weather systems not on the category number assigned.

Precisely where we draw the line between «thick» and «thin» is somewhat arbitrary, given that the absorption shades smoothly from small values to large values as the product of absorption factor with amount of CO2 increases.

The dividing line between situations within the scope and those outside the scope of EU law often appears arbitrary, as was pointed by AG Sharpston in the case of Zambrano.

Thomas called any distinction between breath and blood tests «an arbitrary line in the sand.»