Sentences with phrase «as arbitrary rules»

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.

Not exact matches

Arbitrary rules about meeting length or procedure may have their place, but the truth is the situation is fluid and it's hard to design guidelines that will fit all circumstances, especially as your company grows.

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.

Until this is accepted, the Abrahamic religions are going to have an increasingly difficult time, as fewer an fewer people will accept arbitrary rules based on irrational principles.

At its worst, this notion takes the form of the image of God as divine lawgiver and judge, who has proclaimed an arbitrary set of moral rules, who keeps records of offences, and who will punish offenders.

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?»

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.

By God's own teaching, his plan required that his creations, having free will, yet no appreciation of hardship or adversary, must, like all children do as they move from innocence to adulthood, think that they know better than there parents and elders and break seemingly arbitrary rules.

But if, on the other hand, we refuse to regard human socialization as anything more than a chance arrangement, a modus vivendi lacking all power of internal growth, then (excepting, at the most, a few elementary rules safeguarding the living - space of the individual) we find the whole structure of politico - economico - social relations reduced to an arbitrary system of conventional and temporary expedients.

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.

As soon as we start making arbitrary rules, it quickly becomes impossible to live them out consistentlAs soon as we start making arbitrary rules, it quickly becomes impossible to live them out consistentlas we start making arbitrary rules, it quickly becomes impossible to live them out consistently.

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.

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.

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).

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.

«It is important to note that the committee only endorsed a ruling by the court; this is not an arbitrary decision by the party as being speculated by Nii Noi's supporters».

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.

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.

If you're like most men, online dating comes across as something of a mystery, a game whose rules seem arbitrary and often unfair.

If you're like most men, online dating comes across as something of a mystery, a game whose rules seem arbitrary and... (read more)

If you're like most men, online dating comes across as something of a mystery, a game whose rules seem arbitrary and often... (read more)

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.

As a Hitchcock blonde, she would have been expected to at least sacrifice her individuality and strength at the altar of the questionable prize of domesticity, marking the world of the picture as Hitchcock's perhaps German Expressionist - inspired nightmare of automatons ruled by arbitrary rules and social systemAs a Hitchcock blonde, she would have been expected to at least sacrifice her individuality and strength at the altar of the questionable prize of domesticity, marking the world of the picture as Hitchcock's perhaps German Expressionist - inspired nightmare of automatons ruled by arbitrary rules and social systemas Hitchcock's perhaps German Expressionist - inspired nightmare of automatons ruled by arbitrary rules and social systems.

These sequences smack of improv theater exercises, as if actors and director have built out the scenes from a single gesture or some arbitrary linguistic rule.

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.

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.

Taken together with the way it locks off so much content until you hit arbitrary levels it feels bizarrely restrictive, forcing players into a grind - like trajectory that gradually dishes out tools that make gameplay more interesting, even as the deliberately limited combinations of rules, maps and modes chip away at the initially intoxicating sugar rush appeal.

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.

Baldessari has expressed that his interest in language comes from its similarities in structure to games, as both operate by an arbitrary and mandatory system of rules.

Using an arbitrary rule - based system translating each letter into its corresponding musical note (C, D, E, F, G, A, B) and treating each letter without a correlating note as a silent musical rest, Gaines has established a relationship between the structures of language and music; Manifestos 2 explores how the emotive properties of music affect the content of the manifestos and their interpretation.

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 firm submitted that there should be some predictability in contingency fee arrangements, instead of what they characterized as an «arbitrary compensation rule.»

Washington LLLT - in - training, Miryam Gordon, explains: «I think the 3,000 hour rule is onerous, arbitrary as a decided amount, and unjustified.

Manages the office «as if it were Yugoslavia circa 1971» with too many forms, arbitrary rules and favoritism.

While this may seem like an efficient way to save for home repairs, critics of this rule of thumb argue that the amount set aside is somewhat arbitrary, and doesn't account for a wide variety of factors, such as the age of your home, whether most of the value of your home is in the land itself, whether your home is attached or single family, etc..

You are confusing rules passed by Legislatures as you note and arbitrary rules passed by boards to protect status quo.

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.