Sentences with phrase «arbitrary rules for»

Unlike that other 2010 movie that made such a big deal of explaining arbitrary rules for getting from one level of storytelling to another, «The Social Network» just does it.

Too often we see government making arbitrary rules for businesses based on false or incomplete data.

Insurance companies are not in compliance with the law if they have arbitrary rules for a set number of consultations or certain age of the baby.

Not merely arbitrary rules for what to do and don't do, but the kinds of things important to maintaining a functional, peaceful, stable society.

So it makes no sense to assign an arbitrary rule for one of the greenhouse gases.

Not exact matches

Americans for Annuity Protection has engaged in active outreach to leaders of influence to establish the argument that the DOL's fiduciary rule should be returned because of the analysis performed by the department is flawed, inconclusive and arbitrary; it is not compatible with the Uniform Security Law or established insurance law, and the law has potential conflict with the Dodd - Frank requirements to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on reviewing a uniform fiduciary standard.

While numerous crypto exchanges are offering their services, the pitfalls of centralized systems plus the often unfair trading fees, arbitrary rules and security threats add considerable risk for users.

When you strip the conformist requirement, suppression of the individual, arbitrary and anachronistic rules, and ritual observances, it is very easy for a group of otherwise good people to become an unthinking mob.

I'm afraid the bible and it's changing rules are a bit too arbitrary for me.

They worship tradition, dress up in gaudy expensive clothes and march around, making arbitrary rules and regulations about every little thing, thinking if they do these things and make magical gestures that this somehow «cleanses» the outside of the cup, yet Jesus already knew of their type of priest in the old days, speaking against Pharisees for doing the exact same things the Catholics have been doing for centuries.

The «christian view» goes something like this, «there is a benevolent sky daddy who made some arbitrary rules that include condoning slavery and stoning unruly children to death, and if I don't follow these rules, I burn in hell for all eternity... unless I ask for forgiveness at some point before I die, then all is forgiven and I live in heaven for all eternity, even if I'm a baby rapist!».

Regulations in family and classroom can be used as a basis for developing a high concept of law, when they are presented as approximations to right — not as arbitrary impositions, not as expressions of superior power, not as absolute rules which can never be questioned or modified.

Referring to C. S. Lewis's much - cited claim in The Abolition of Man, Kass writes that if «man's so - called power over nature is, in truth, always a power exercised by some over others with knowledge of nature as their instrument, can it really be liberating to exchange the rule of nature for the role of arbitrary human will?»

The freedom of the Christian man which Luther rewon for the Christian is that which comes from seeing that no arbitrary rule, ecclesiastical law, or abstract principle takes precedence over this concrete necessity and our conscientious response to it.

Left with nothing but inherited sensibilities and arbitrary fiat, their heteronormative measure failed where its procreative predecessor had succeeded for centuries, in offering sound reasons for rules.

Plus, dogmatic adherence to what really are arbitrary rules (as opposed to a gluten free diet, which has established medical benefits for those who need it) tends to annoy me.

This is a sport / entertainment for crying out loud... Things that don't affect fighter safety like 0.2 lbs they can look the other way... Let's not apply super strict rules to a sport that has arbitrary rules in the first place!

The only semi-compelling argument behind teams testing for pot is itself a rationalization — that the testing is simply an «intelligence test» to see if the player will follow (or successfully skirt) an arbitrary rule that has no bearing whatsoever on their ability to do their job at a high level.

Let's say there's a law against paying for lunch with money from your right pocket (likely a law sponsored by Senator Warren, as this would be an arbitrary, ineffective, and invasive financial rule).

I don't think that strict boundaries and rules provide anything more than an arbitrary obstacle for them to overcome.

For republicans, interference is rendered not arbitrary — and so does not reduce our freedom — when we are subject to the rule of law.

In the ruling by Supreme Court Justice Richard McNally tossing the suit, the challenge was deemed «arbitrary and capricious» while requiring a competitive civil service examination for the fellowship program was called impractical, given that it only lasts for two years.

DeScioli says our rule - making system is arbitrary, producing the belief that masturbation is «bad», for instance.

In FCC v. Fox Television Stations, the high court ruled, 5 - 4, that an agency can change regulations without the move being considered arbitrary or capricious under the Administrative Procedures Act as long as it provides a «reasoned explanation» for the change.

I'm really not one for following arbitrary rules.

The «3 - date rule» for sex seems arbitrary.

Watching Krisha is a revelation: there are expected «rules» for such material (a former addict returns home for a holiday), but then director / writer Trey Edward Shults breaks every rule, making those rules seem tired and arbitrary in the process, and he does so with bravura, confidence, flash.

Netflix movies, of course, are presently not allowed to compete for the Palme d'Or unless they consent to French exhibition laws, a rule that does seem a bit arbitrary in light of the very real possibility that the streaming giant could snap up a Cannes competition entry after the fact.

The unions argue that the rules protecting teachers are needed for school districts to attract and retain good teachers and to ensure that employees are not fired for arbitrary or unfair reasons.

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.

She will say that the country has for too long «tolerated a system that contains an arbitrary rule preventing selective schools from being established», which she claims has sacrificed children's potential «because of dogma and ideology».

Oral arguments were held on September 13, 2016 and on October 13, 2016, the court denied the petition for review and held that the ELD rule is not arbitrary or capricious, nor does it violate the Fourth Amendment.

For others, Amazon is symbolic of everything wrong with corporations: arbitrary rules, hoops to jump through, and now, even the loss of revenue, income, and a potential fan base.

As she explained in a Commerce Committee meeting on aviation safety, these rules seem almost arbitrary in light of the fact that they are not in place for the numerous people who travel on Air Force One, all presumably with portable devices.

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The reason is that there are so many risks: government regulations of short - selling (SEC Rule 204), special government regulations put in place during market panics (e.g. the 2008 SEC ban on short selling financials), forced buy - ins, unlimited losses, debt to the brokerage, interest one is charged for being short which can vary arbitrarily, brokerages could change margin requirements to any arbitrary amount, arbitration clauses, you agree to indemnify the brokerage for anything it did even if it did the wrong thing, some brokerages also do market - making and thus have further incentive to fleece the client, and all the other «screw you» legal language that you agreed to when opening an account.

The 15 % rule is good, even if arbitrary, for that reason.

Essentially, this ruling now makes breed specific legislation in Ohio for anything beyond «purebred» American Pit Bull Terriers and American Staffordshire Terriers very problematic — meaning that they would have to go through all due processes and puts more pressure on cities with laws pertaining to mixed breeds and other breeds, like cane corsos, that declaring these types of dogs dangerous without due process is «unreasonable and arbitrary.»

BUT overall, I think it is better for most people to have a revenue model as it is egalitarian, which leads to companies not making arbitrary rules that hurt 80 % of customers because of the 20 % who game the system.

It's somewhat of an arbitrary rule, though the idea is just so you can't sign - up for a hundred accounts and instantly purchase miles out of them.

Whereas, conceptual artist John Baldessari has incorporated appropriated stock and movie imagery combined with texts for the narrative potential of images and the associative power of language, because of the structural similarities of linguistics to games, since both operate as a mixture of arbitrary and mandatory systems of rules.

An intense interest in the disquieting operations of arbitrary, rule - based systems makes a certain sense for an African American artist raised into the perversity of the Jim Crow South.

Arbitrary increases in SCC values artificially boost the claimed benefits for emissions reductions in agency cost - benefit analyses on everything from power plant regulations to rules on kitchen appliances.

The toolset of denialist restriction - by - authority is always the same: rudeness, abuse, anger amounting to rage, personal profiling, selective enforcement of arbitrary rules, legal threats, enemy lists, and outright censorship of threatening ideas — always with a view toward sustaining a «protected bubble» for denialist beliefs.

They want governments to compel everyone to observe such arbitrary rules and pay for their enormous costs too.

The Supreme Court must decide two distinct questions — does FERC have jurisdiction to set rules for demand response at the wholesale level, and was the compensation set by FERC «arbitrary and capricious» as the D.C. Circuit ruled?

The HIA brief charges that the DEA's «Final Rule» should be invalidated because the agency is exercising arbitrary and capricious authority by attempting to outlaw hemp seed and oil without holding formal hearings on the issue or finding any potential for abuse.

«I don't feel like it's good government to impose rules on one group for just an arbitrary reason,» Karakehian said.

applying the rule to lawyers is «arbitrary, capricious and contrary to law,» and that the FTC has failed to «articulate, among other things: a rational connection between the practice of law and identity theft; an explanation of how the manner in which lawyers bill their clients can be considered an extension of credit under the [Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act]; or any legally supportable basis for application of the Red Flag Rule to lawyers engaged in the practice of law.&rarule to lawyers is «arbitrary, capricious and contrary to law,» and that the FTC has failed to «articulate, among other things: a rational connection between the practice of law and identity theft; an explanation of how the manner in which lawyers bill their clients can be considered an extension of credit under the [Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act]; or any legally supportable basis for application of the Red Flag Rule to lawyers engaged in the practice of law.&raRule to lawyers engaged in the practice of law.»