Sentences with phrase «arbitrary rules which»

I believe that this approach to loss - cutting is far superior to arbitrary rules which require cutting losses too short.

Not exact matches

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

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.

To assent to the rules of engagement prescribed by liberal public reason is to accept a voluntary and arbitrary limit on how deeply one is willing to think, which then becomes an involuntary limit on how far one is able to see.

God's Law isn't a list of arbitrary rules, but help guide us to understanding and conforming to His nature, which is the only real source of Goodness.

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.

Are the rules according to which it proceeds arbitrary selections of the mind?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mythrules are directives whose original purposes are often lost on students and which, as a result, are often perceived as arbitrary rules they must follow.

A civilised society should have a system which encourages competition to raise animal welfare standards, not competition to lower them and we should not jeopardise our farming industry simply because of some arbitrary rules set down by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).

«The granting of pardon also amounts to an arbitrary exercise of powers, which can only continue to weaken the rule of law, deny justice to the victims of corruption, and entrench a culture of impunity of the country's leaders,» the organization said.

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.

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.»

TCTA was pleased to see that the proposed rules expanded the list of laws from which districts of innovation can not be exempt, but noted that the list was arbitrary and didn't include particularly important provisions like class - size limits, student discipline measures, teacher and parent rights, and teacher benefits.

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.

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.

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».

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.

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.

Attached to the wall, hand - sanitiser dispensers of the type you find in hospitals reinforce the impression of arbitrary rules being enforced (speaking on the opening day, Sworn cites Eula Biss's On Immunity (2014), which suggests that these devices serve no purpose beyond reassurance).

Stephenson was interested in making deliberate and carefully controlled studies, the «rules» and proportions of which had been pre-determined, from paintings which were arbitrary.

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.»

There is a good basis for arguing that the way the FCC adopted this rule violated the APA, which prohibits «arbitrary and capricious» rulemaking.

But how it's technically justified in the order now is so demonstrably wrong that it could very well be open to a lawsuit alleging that these rules could very credibly be challenged under the Administrative Procedure Act, which prohibits regulations that are «arbitrary and capricious.»

Looking at existing Mississippi law, the court found that while private organizations are generally free to discipline members who violate prescribed rules of conduct, private organizations must also describe possible punishments which can be imposed for various rules violations, in order to alert the member as to the possible punishments when he / she joins the organization and also avoid arbitrary disciplinary actions by the organization against its members.