Sentences with phrase «as arbitrary»

It's imperative that your associates start thinking about what they too often dismiss as an arbitrary process.

Indeed, many of the social norms around marriage proposals — such as the arbitrary benchmark of two months» salary that men should spend on an engagement ring — come from De Beers» successful advertising efforts.

It is acknowledged that focussing solely on the post-release phase could be seen as arbitrary or creating an artificial distinction, partitioning off post-release experiences from pre-incarceration and incarceration experiences.

If you want to get a job as an Arbitrary Representative, but you don't have any prior experience in the job position, then you need to ensure that you write an excellent resume that showcases any relevant skills that you have to qualify you for the job.

I hope that more people with the authority to make hiring decisions will see the wisdom in hiring the most qualified candidate and stop a practice that potentially screens out good applicants because of something as arbitrary as employment status.

Presenting MoviePass access as arbitrary and subject to political maneuvering is hardly a consumer - friendly tactic.

The step counter is just as arbitrary as every other smartwatch I've used — which is to say, very arbitrary.

At Robinhood, we view commission fees as arbitrary mark - ups like taxes, which discourage participation in the financial markets.»

Originally Soderbergh had scripted over 40 different content nodes for the app, but tightened Mosaic up to around 15 so the decisions don't feel as arbitrary or like a chore.

To combat what many saw as arbitrary insurance rates, Californians voted into law Prop 103 on November 8, 1988, which called for consumer - driven regulation on insurance companies.

As arbitrary as the Avvo rating may seem, it matters in the eyes of your potential clients.

Statutes and ordinances have been struck down as arbitrary [Footnote 2/133] or as violative of state constitutional prohibitions

And there can not ever be any social law that will adequately define such a point - you might just as well define it as arbitrary as you want.

As has been discussed at the links at the bottom of our post, and in the post itself, there is good reason to think that the figures produced by the WHO and GHF were as good as arbitrary.

But 30 years was adopted as an arbitrary standard (i.e. the «classical period of climate») in the year of the International Geophysical Year (the IGY was in 1958 and it was thought that 30 years of climate data had then been amassed).

On September 30, 2013, Georgia Aquarium filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia challenging the agency's decision under the federal Administrative Procedure Act as contrary to the MMPA and its implementing regulations and as arbitrary and capricious.

I do believe that Franke James is on the right path and that the censorship of the Harper Administration sounds as arbitrary and fulsome as the actions of our own administration.

The Hat series began in 2012 using a generic bowler hat as an arbitrary form in which to generate a host of other forms and suggestions.

Vaughn seems consumed by what the rest of us perceive as arbitrary, going to great lengths to mount the skeletal fabric on beefy, custom - shaped plexi that mimics the existing industrial cuts.

Around 1960, the traditional pictorial rectangle began to be seen as arbitrary, enough so that certain abstract painters worked to make each new picture's exterior profile an active ingredient rather than a rote decision.

Seven or eight different screens were used to create Shadows, as evidenced in the slight shifts in scales of dark areas as well as the arbitrary presence of spots of light.

I think from early admiration of artists like Freud, Auerbach and Giacometti, I find it easier to trust something that comes from sustained struggle, although of course this is as arbitrary as any a priori standard one brings to bear.»

«Shoot, die, try to do a bit better next time» hits the same one - more - go factor as a slot machine, but on its own that's as fake an addiction as the arbitrary levelling system in a bad mobile game.

The elements themselves are still as arbitrary as ever, perhaps even more so in the Shin Megami Tensei series since it draws its monsters from humanity's most bizarre myths and legends (or in Persona makes them all puddles of blackness).

Doing would will result in offspring that carry a new set of traits from both parents that have been randomly selected as well as arbitrary mutation.

Its episodic nature comes off as arbitrary to begin with, the DLC slinging is flagrant, and overall it looks and plays like something either very old, or a budget game punching above its weight.

The only use I could see that [i] Odama [/ i] even has for the time limit — other than as an arbitrary inflation of difficulty — is as an impromptu scoring device (every 100 seconds you have left over after each board results in an «extra ball») that could easily be replaced by an actual score tally.

It's classic multiplayer hooks to keep you invested but in a way that doesn't feel as arbitrary as seeing a number go up — even though that's precisely what it is.

If 500 registrations and 100 litters are taken as arbitrary guidelines to determine rarity, 49 AKC breeds met the criteria last year.

Answer: Eight years old is generally considered senior, however, this number is about as arbitrary as designating humans seniors at age 65.

As an arbitrary guide, owners should start to consider age - related issues at 7 years in dogs and cats.

This part of the Aristocrats methodology strikes me as arbitrary and backward - looking.

For example, you can be approved on the basis of something as arbitrary as a gym membership or student loan.

In other cases, including in Rochester, Syracuse, Houston and in Knox County, Tenn., teachers have taken a different legal approach, attacking the value - added models as arbitrary and unreliable.

In other words, the definitions of culture and character provided in the preface strike me as arbitrary.

They hate it when state officials give their schools black eyes or low marks for not meeting targets that they view as arbitrary and beyond their control.

Divided into chapters each representative of a tarot attribute, the meanings assigned are perhaps meant to be as arbitrary as these designations.

When his Efraim becomes a backstabber, it's as arbitrary as it is obvious.

Anoushka's two gay friends, Mark (Timothy Spall) and Mark Two (Oliver Platt), seem as arbitrary as their names, and Annette Bening does as much as she can with the underwritten role of an American poet named Bella.

Upon first blush, the decision registers as an arbitrary homage to the golden age of American Westerns.

It's a strange pursuit, as arbitrary as reading tea leaves, but at least it brings us together over a hot cup of tea.

It has come to this: bisexuality as an arbitrary character point, like smoking or wearing a hat.

The hallmark doctrine is the 1922 Colorado River Compact, which divided the Colorado River into the upper and lower basins and chose Lee's Ferry, Ariz., as the arbitrary dividing point.

But perhaps the main argument, the participants agreed, was that 0.005 is just as arbitrary as 0.05, and that the threshold depends on what is already known about a topic and the risks associated with getting a wrong answer.

In principle, dividing the sound into two parts is as arbitrary as asking, «If x plus y equals 10, what are x and y?»

As the good - government advocates criticized such a cap as arbitrary, Heastie cautioned against getting hung up on the percentage and the type of salary that percentage is linked to.

In Hungary the courts are already working as arbitrary popular tribunals.

That view attributes to the state a wildly exaggerated capacity to provide security — not only because of the all - too - apparent limitations of the competence of state officials to keep us safe but also because, as the arbitrary power of the state increases, the more the state itself becomes a source of insecurity.

But any later starting date may be seen as arbitrary and chosen to maximise bargaining advantage.

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.