Sentences with phrase «arbitrary rules in»

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!

Owing to an arbitrary rule in Bitcoin's source code, the currency is unable to scale effectively.

Not exact matches

Likewise, to prosper, the private sector in China is dependent in large degree on guanxi and arbitrary government rules.

Ruling out a huge portion of the talent pool in favor of an arbitrary hiring requirement is not the smartest move.

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.

When my times comes and when your times comes, which will both be unannounced anyways, how we are saved is not as simple as an arbitrary or superficial rule written on a book in an imperfect world.

Indeed even the rule of law is a nondemocratic principle, sorely needed to hold in check the potentially arbitrary whims of the popular will.

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.

Many commonplaces of today are the improbabilities of yesterday, and in any branch of science «improbabilities» occur from time to time which are apparently arbitrary exceptions to previously observed rules.

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?»

Even the Davidic monarchy, as in the cases of king Solomon and king Ahab, used religious institutions and trappings to justify their arbitrary actions and rules.

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.

The linguistic and biblicist vetos have been seen to be both arbitrary and unwarranted — which makes it all the more pathetic that Dr Paul van Buren in The Secular Meaning of the Gospel still seems to accept them as valid and to rule out «God - statements» as «meaningless» while at the same time his excessive Barthian christocentrism and bibliocentrism turns the patent intention of scriptural statement into a parody of their proper meaning.

At many other points in the judicial process, discretion rules, and arbitrary or incorrect decisions are possible.

If the participation of persons in world mission is lacking or is limited by arbitrary rules, all areas of the church's life will suffer.

In order to have a concept of «disorder» we need to have a concept of «order» and since this book completely fails to explain the Catholic view of sexuality and vocation to family life, the ban on artificial contraception can only be described as some kind of pointless arbitrary rule.

Thanks to dumb and arbitrary rules that are only now being changed because they are dumb and arbitrary, Aubameyang is unfortunately cup tied to Dortmund who, like CSKA Moscow, were bounced from the group stage of the Champion's League and were given a berth in the Europa League knockout stages as a consolation prize.

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.

Most rules are arbitrary; anchored in control and profit.

It's just I have found these people in particular that feel their own inadequacies so strongly that it compels them to prove their own self - worth by adhering to some set of arbitrary rules that they legitimize with trumped up science and a gang mentality.

The term servitù is always the one he uses when speaking of how an individual or a whole people living subject to the discretionary power of someone else will suffer loss of liberty, whether the power be internal to the polity (in the form of a prince or ruling oligarchy wielding arbitrary control) or external (in the form of a colonising power).

On 15 June 1215 at Runnymede (a small meadow outside of London, marking the midpoint between two armies locked in civil war) King John set his seal on Magna Carta — the «great charter» that has become synonymous throughout the world with opposition to arbitrary rule, and with the protection of individual rights and liberties.

«I think Labour's arrived at the right position on this issue, not ruling out a referendum in any circumstances, but neither making an open - ended, arbitrary commitment to one in three years» time,» the Labour peer said.

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.

The Ghana Police Service must show fidelity to the state rather than the ruling government, and also, be professional in their conduct in order to protect life and property of all our citizens, instead of the arbitrary application of its powers.

In some ways the rules can be arbitrary, but generally they help to preserve order.

The court found that Marquez's termination was in bad faith, arbitrary and capricious and in violation of Westchester County Civil Service rules.

In modern usage, legal or administrative bodies with strict, arbitrary rulings and secretive proceedings are sometimes called, metaphorically or poetically, «star chambers».

To map conscious and unconscious processing of information, Lieberman used a classic psychology experiment in which subjects learn arbitrary rules about stringing letters together, known as an artificial grammar.

However, another way in which this universe deviates from perfection is that the rules in use are arbitrary and vague — if they are defined at all — and they differ considerably between collaborations and institutions.

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.

In the current study, complex nano - forms displaying arbitrary wireframe architectures have been created, using a new set of design rules.

And the rule changes will come in random and completely arbitrary ways.

It seems as though any attempt to escape arbitrary social rules via utilitarianism eventually runs smack into a set of somewhat biased and arbitrary social rules that must be implemented in order to measure and compare the utility of different groups of people.

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.

There are certain arbitrary rules that seem to define awards season: Movies released early in the year will be ignored; Horror never gets nominated; First time directors don't have a chance; Stories about racism should be told through a white gaze.

Perfecting his style of absurdist deadpan comedy, Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth) introduces new rules, activities, and gruesome punishments at every turn: Matches are made based on arbitrary similarities; trial couples are assigned children; and time extensions can be earned by hunting down renegade singles who live in the woods and only listen to electronic music.

Thankfully, things are back in order this year, at least in terms of following arbitrary rules about how many top things you're allowed to...

Truly, «Mad Max: Fury Road» and my No. 2 pick are both the best films of 2015 in my mind — and incredibly different in what makes them the best — but the arbitrary rules of list - making dictate that I must choose.

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.

This year, a state court judge ruled in favor of a Long Island teacher, determining that the «ineffective» rating she had received on the growth - score portion of her evaluation (the part linked to student test results) was «arbitrary and capricious.»

What is the main issue is all of the other rules and regulations (some of which are incredibly arbitrary) that go along with these programs make it undesirable to participate in the program.

Though this may seem arbitrary, it has a very important purpose, which the NH ruling explains in detail: without the harm requirement, courts would have sweeping power to override the will of voters and their elected representatives.

Space here does not allow me to go into details about the manner in which the District handled this affair (which is likely not over yet) but it is telling that Judge Banks stated in his ruling: «I find the rejection [of the petitions] to be procedurally unfair, unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious.»

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In a major speech, Theresa May will launch the new government's green paper, including plans to scrap the «arbitrary rule» which prevents new grammar schools from opening.

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.

Considering himself «a humble citizen of the greatest nation in the world,» Jun Do becomes a professional kidnapper who must navigate the shifting rules, arbitrary violence, and baffling demands of his Korean overlords in order to stay alive.