Sentences with phrase «like arbitrary»

Relationship research has shown that passion decreases gradually throughout a relationship, making 3 - years seems like an arbitrary cut - off (but perhaps not arbitrary in terms of tying in with the movie).

Still, charging a fee for full smart lock functionality feels like an arbitrary move, and a stingy one at that.

Judges appear to be more easily persuaded by a reasoned opinion of the vehicle's value before the accident and after the repairs, as opposed to a broad statement that it has lost a certain percentage of its value; this can sound like an arbitrary figure that has been plucked out of the air.

In fact most if not all of the posited explanations look very much like arbitrary efforts to explain away the difficulties by filling in certain gaps with ad hoc, retrospectively derived, models.»

As the guy who doesn't like arbitrary, subjective thresholds, this seems awfully arbitrary and subjective.

Like the arbitrary UHI ajustments, these sources of error are disregarded altogether, subjected to arbitrary adjustments without adequate experimental verifications, and generally denied as a confounding problem in the preparation of the IPCC reports and conclusions.

What they mean when they say that is «Under absolutely no circumstances will I agree to grant China - like arbitrary power to Al Gore, as Thomas Friedman fantasizes about doing».

While it may seem like an arbitrary distinction — image vs. place — the two could not be further apart.

The result is that the compartmentalized squares feel more like an arbitrary aesthetic device.

In the absence of any contextualizing label, however, the combination seems like an arbitrary provocation, something that might be said about any number of the pairings here.

But, in execution, Macel's pseudo-pavilions start to feel, at times, too simplistic, at others, like an arbitrary device.

It's also just bureaucratic, as the Burst Gauge - to - cutscene pattern feels like an arbitrary game - lengthening device.

The game also features «retro 8 - bit color graphics», which seems like an arbitrary choice for its visual design, but I guess it's what's in now.

Job systems also breathe extra life and replay value to a game, without it feeling like arbitrary padding.

While these may sound like arbitrary additions it really does add something new that the series has been critically lacking.

Having to start out with no weapon / skill upgrades despite ending the previous game fully upgraded felt like an arbitrary downgrade for «game logic» reasons.

Six months sounds like an arbitrary figure, but if the dog isn't healed by then, it probably never will be.

What's pleasant about this approach is that the Vox doesn't feel like an arbitrary reskin of Android, in spite of the interface's different functionality and look.

Picking out 10 of the best 2 door sports cars can sometimes feel like an arbitrary exercise, simply because there are so many good, and fun, high performance automobiles on the market.

The silvery monochrome photography itself feels like an arbitrary choice, handsome in hue but not especially evocative of the period, and exacerbating the under - composed aspect of the shots.

I'm all for absurd surrealism, but here it plays more like the arbitrary magic of a Harry Potter movie.

But in Jolie's cautious hands, Unbroken plays like an arbitrary series of trials suffered by a superhumanly unwavering young man we know little about.

But most importantly, it just seems like an arbitrary distinction that does not sufficiently take into account human biology.

It's important to educate kids about the purpose of helmets, so having to use one seems less like an arbitrary rule and more like something that will help him.

But, it seems like an arbitrary cut - off.

If it seems like an arbitrary mark to care about, well, welcome to baseball.

Over time, though, it began to seem like an arbitrary limitation on God's power to confine it to the realm of the living.

It felt like an arbitrary question to ask a kid, so I saw it more as an exercise in creative storytelling than actual life planning.

He would have liked the arbitrary choice of green and its varied, intuitive placement.

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The aim is «to create a meritocracy,» says Kirshner, where employees are rewarded solely on the value they bring to the company vs. arbitrary metrics like age and experience.

«The regulation, like the Soda Ban before it, is completely arbitrary in its scope, reach, and application,» the group said.

But it's also why partial disclosures like Ontario's Sunshine List are failures: they don't go far enough, fostering us - vs - them divisions based on picking an arbitrary salary cutoff.

But arbitrary code vulnerabilities like Stagefright can, for example, turn on a phone's microphone to use it as a spy device, even if the phone has no access to anything more sensitive than a public Twitter account.

Ignore for a second that stock index milestones like Dow 21K are inherently rather arbitrary.

It shows the power of an arbitrary index weighted by share price instead of fundamentals like size or free float.

So, I initially set some arbitrary targets like $ 2000 or whatever as a selling point, but then there's the regret I'd have to contend with if it goes to $ 20,000 in 2 years.

It will, instead, manifest itself as a desire to hold more of something with near - cash - like liquidity that is not subject to arbitrary devaluation by central banks and governments.

I'd rather make that determination based on how much I've saved and how much I will need, not some arbitrary thing like how many years I've got in the system.

Common allegations against such brokers were high pressure «account managers» (more like salesmen really) who traded away all their clients» money, plus arbitrary withholding of withdrawals.

The ventriloquists of our humane verbal fundamentalisms are but like lunacies of mental arborists who become jealous regarding differing sensualists whose only ills are to recreations of sensualistic pleasing outrightly set apart from the emotionally disturbed religious fundamentalists who seem to be fixated in their arbitrary mindset issues of straight lined sensualistic commonalities complacencies.

«lionlylamb2013 High 5 «imagination», The ventriloquists of our humane verbal fundamentalisms are but like lunacies of mental arborists who become jealous regarding differing sensualists whose only ills are to recreations of sensualistic pleasing outrightly set apart from the emotionally disturbed religious fundamentalists who seem to be fixated in their arbitrary mindset issues of straight lined sensualistic commonalities complacencies.

Our society fails to present a coherent sense of what a good life should look like or how one arrives at a good life; and without a sense of purpose, the demands that fall on teens to «get into a good college» seem arbitrary and dehumanizing.

«Whatever insults human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery... the selling of women and children; as well as disgraceful working conditions, where men are treated as mere tools for profit, rather than as free and responsible persons; all these things and others of their like are infamies indeed... they are a supreme dishonour to the Creator.»

Sounds like a big, arbitrary jerk to me.

America, like Mosaic Israel, was a government of settled laws, not arbitrary men.

The «christian view» goes something like this, «there is a benevolent sky daddy who made some arbitrary rules that include condoning slavery and stoning unruly children to death, and if I don't follow these rules, I burn in hell for all eternity... unless I ask for forgiveness at some point before I die, then all is forgiven and I live in heaven for all eternity, even if I'm a baby rapist!».

Like the concept of the Chosen People, election has often been regarded as an objectionable idea because it makes the deity seem arbitrary and unjust to many.

He is rather like a dictator, only larger and more arbitrary.

And now, on an arbitrary Saturday in 2017 America, hundreds feel the freedom to show the world not only open - faced hate for anyone not like them, but to do so without hoods.

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.