Sentences with phrase «as arbitrary a measure»

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It turns out that how you measure your metro region is just as arbitrary.

The ISDS chapter in a trade agreement of a country where you are considering doing business or investing could act as a shield against any arbitrary foreign government measures that would negatively impact your business.

About as far from «arbitrary» as an event could be since they were noticed and measured by ordinary, untaught humans for dozens of centuries and led us to further scientific discoveries.

But if this is asserted and if we do not wish to think of the orientation of the development by God as a series of arbitrary measures taken by him and as giving impetus to the development from outside (a way of representing the matter which is absurd in fact and method, for all kinds of reasons), then this orientation can only be conceived as happening precisely through, and out of, 11 the of course ultimately divinely - created reality of what Is itself developing in that way.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie told reporters on Monday that the final measure was a compromise, of sorts, even as good - government groups called its threshold «completely arbitrary.»

Today Mr Reid told the cabinet he was «mindful of the need for balancing measures to reassure the public when introducing moves that could be perceived as an increase in arbitrary power», and of the need to secure cross-party consensus on any changes.

Equally striking, if less well known, are the so - called squeezed quantum states: Normally, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle means that one can not measure the values of certain pairs of physical quantities, such as the position and velocity of a quantum particle, with arbitrary precision.

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.

It's unclear if this had anything to do with the sudden decision to move the release date, and since the movie is listed as «completed» on IMDb (admittedly an arbitrary way to measure these things), this news is a little surprising.

The more specific goal of her case was to seek a judgment: (1) setting aside or vacating Sheri's individual growth score and rating her as «ineffective,» and (2) declare that the New York endorsed and implemented growth measures in use was / is «arbitrary and capricious.»

You end up optimizing for arbitrary and easily measured metrics which do not necessarily alight with (and are often diametrically opposed) the quality or «soul» that we seek to find and produce in writing as an art.

At the 1930 Solvay meeting Einstein proposed a thought experiment purporting to defeat Heisenberg uncertainty by opening the shutter of a box arbitrarily briefly to allow a photon to escape at an accurately known time then measuring the resulting decrease m in weight of the whole box to arbitrary accuracy so as to estimate the photon's energy E accurately as mc ^ 2.

Yet even as a measure of the human carbon footprint, the EF uses an arbitrary methodology that is highly sensitive to its authors» assumptions.

As a result, a regime of general data retention should be established on the basis of measures adopted by a legislative authority, that are accessible and foreseeable while offering adequate protection against arbitrary interference with the rights of privacy and data protection (§ 153).

The measures must be fair and not arbitrary; the means should impair the right in question as little as possible; and there must be proportionality between the effects of the limiting measure and the objective.

This onus is met if: a connection exists between the measure and the objectives so that the former can not be said to be arbitrary, unfair or irrational; the measure impairs the Charter right or freedom no more than necessary; and the effects of the measure are not so severe as to constitute an unacceptable abridgement of the right or freedom.

The 2 studies used different measures as proxies for the parenting dimensions of warmth and sensitivity, both with arbitrary cut points to dichotomize the parenting dimensions, so that they could have measured different underlying constructs.