Sentences with phrase «for arbitrary decision»

Because of all these opportunities for arbitrary decision, only a small number of those convicted of capital crimes are actually executed.

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But the potential for instability, international sanctions and arbitrary political decisions affecting Russia's exports bolsters the case for more than a dozen liquefied natural gas terminals proposed for the British Columbia coast.

A group of copper users has rounded on the Securities and Exchange Commission for its «arbitrary and capricious» decision to approve the first US investment product that would hold physical copper.

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Within the ethical thinking regarding pure sacrifice that I am opposing, one's decision to be responsible for this person rather than that appears to be entirely arbitrary.

A state judge has ordered a new parole hearing for Judith Clark, a former left - wing militant who took part in a 1981 armored car robbery that left three dead, saying the State Board of Parole's decision last year to deny her parole was arbitrary and capricious.

Beyond the absurdity of trying to write a contract which could serve as an algorithm for making arbitrary presidential decisions, the US constitution states that officers of the US can be impeached only for «high crimes and misdemeanors».

It rightly quashed the arbitrary and unlawful decision of the Commissioner made on the 10th of October 2016 invalidating the nomination of the applicant as a candidate for the coming Presidential Election for alleged non-compliance with regulations 7 of the Public Elections Regulations, 2016 (CI 94) and ordered the Commissioner to comply with the Regulations.

Without waiting for the aspiring candidates to exhaust their constitutional rights to challenge her arbitrary decisions and determinations, she arrogantly proceeded to refer the aspiring candidates to the police for investigation for the commission of various offences alleged by her in her statement of reasons for disqualifying them.

«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.

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Granted, the boost to starting salaries is not as great as some advocates would like — the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce has called for starting salaries of $ 45,000 — but remember that this new schedule is based on the arbitrary decision to reward credentials that improve test scores by 1 percent of a standard deviation with a 1 percent boost in salary.

In this post, I examine in detail how Nevada's pension plan for teachers operates and show how it incentivizes teachers to make employment decisions around arbitrary points in their careers.

In a series of questions about the state's dismissal laws, and whether they serve a useful purpose, Seymour agreed that they do, saying they help «protect teachers from arbitrary decisions that might be made by a principal or district for reasons not related to their teaching competence.»

As part of their «relentless respect» for staff members, effective principals steer clear of arbitrary decisions based on personal preference.

Thank you for taking this opportunity to empower educators, parents and local school councils and to end arbitrary facilities decisions.

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.

Next I looked at my goals, made arbitrary decisions as to anticipated page counts (Young Adult = 180 pages, Single Title = 375 pages... your mileage may vary) and tried to anticipate how much time would be required for revision and polishing drafts.

As a practical matter, disputing an error can be a time - consuming, nearly impossible three - party negotiation between the credit bureau, the creditor and the individual — a negotiation for which the outcome is ultimately controlled by the sometimes arbitrary decision of the agency.17

Hence, the game developer does not have to balance everything to be «very easy» so that it becomes unnecessary for the player to think until his decisions get arbitrary.

The decision, Judge Molloy wrote, was arbitrary and capricious because officials quantified the benefits of expanded mining «while failing to account for the costs, even though a tool was available to do so.»

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.

Like Beck, Rees and Stern, Schmidt imagines a society, not comprised of autonomous, thinking agents, capable of negotiating their own risks and responding to their own «challenges»; but of a fragile system, which is closely dependent on stability for its own survival, imperilled by the arbitrary decisions and desire of so many unthinking, blind, and ignorant bodies.

These decisions make the adjusted ocean temperature series and trends in my view more uncertain and potentially arbitrary than those for the land — and the ocean outweighs the land by a factor of 70/30.

We are made up of individuals and associations all across British Columbia who believe the best way to protect those injured on the road and to provide stability for all road users is through established, inalienable rights — not arbitrary decisions that turn real people into a statistic.

Cerqueira v American Airlines indicates a possibilty for cause of action in case a decision is «arbitrary and capricious» (a standard originating in Williams v. TWA 509 F. 2d 942), especially in connection with anti-discrimination law.

How many drivers will not be eager to share driving info with insurers and others either for privacy reasons or skepticism about what arbitrary decisions about them will be made based on that info?

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.

So we had to make decisions that might have been a bit arbitrary, including the decision that we would test a combination of individual and group ST.. We reached this decision with the reasoning that each format meets a different kind of need (for individual attention and for being a member of a group of peers, etc.).

A suit filed by a Guam organization claiming that the federal government's decision to sharply reduce the percentage of requests for H2B temporary worker visas it approves is arbitrary and harmful to Guam's economy.