Sentences with phrase «fairly arbitrary decisions»

Under such legacy laws, traditional districts remain the sole proprietor, able to make fairly arbitrary decisions about who else might benefit from these public goods.

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«The review process that the Trump administration has been undertaking has been fairly arbitrary, so it is honestly a guessing game as to which monuments are most at risk and how the review is being conducted and whose voices are being heard to drive Secretary Zinke's decision,» the Wilderness Society's vice president for conservation, Melyssa Watson, said in a news conference yesterday.

However, HarperCollins» decision seemed to be fairly arbitrary, at least in the eyes of many opponents of the move, despite the publisher's explanations to the fact that this decision was a balance of weighing the interests of the libraries and of the authors the publisher represents.