Sentences with phrase «make arbitrary decisions»

Seven Corners does not make arbitrary decisions on our members» files.

They put posters up, and they make arbitrary decisions about what's going to make people happy.

Without evidence, government makes arbitrary decisions that have the potential to negatively affect the daily lives of Canadians.

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.

In particular, national outlets did not highlight the role of state - appointed «emergency managers» who made arbitrary decisions based on budgetary concerns, including the catastrophic decision to draw Flint's water from the Flint River instead of Lake Huron (via the Detroit water system).

Not exact matches

Another bias is mental accounting where an investor divides wealth into arbitrary categories and makes irrational decisions based on the category, such as a stock purchase or sale tied to an emotional attachment to the company.

Unfortunately, they are both still centralized content distribution entities that can make arbitrary and unilateral decisions.

December 25th signifies nothing more than an arbitrary decision made in 4th century CE Rome.

When one couples this with what we have said earlier about man's freedom, the openness to the future which is before each of us and all of us, and the importance of decision as to choices made, the moral question is radically transformed from obedience to arbitrary command to willing acceptance of the invitation of love.

i think many decisions wenger makes are simply arbitrary ideas.

Indeed, they go directly to the heart of the questions the Great Charter Convention series has raised: how can we contest and contain arbitrary power in society when certain individuals or group systematically have more influence over political decision - making?

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».

I've never been entirely satisfied with the comment policy on this site, so let's take this fine Fall morning to make an arbitrary executive decision.

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.

Right off the bat, by defining a «fast food chain» that would be impacted by its decision, the board will «make distinctions that result in arbitrary and disparate treatment of businesses and their employees,» the council argues.

Researchers in decision theory have uncovered a variety of mental biases underlying some of our more illogical and arbitrary behaviours (see «Mental glitches that make fools of us»).

The team investigated «input - output processes», assessing the mathematical framework used to describe arbitrary devices that make future decisions based on stimuli received from the environment.

Williamson also criticizes the somewhat arbitrary decision to use a 15 - year trend line to make projections.

For instance, choose to do sets of 3 - 5 reps, 4 - 6 reps, 5 - 7 reps, or 6 - 8 reps.. The decision is somewhat arbitrary; just make sure you write down the rep bracket you selected and stick with if for the duration of the program.

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.

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.

The worst traits principals could display, according to previous research cited in this study, are arbitrary decision - making, abusiveness, and neglect of responsibilities.

The district can't give up its ability to make arbitrary and capricious decisions.

«While observations make good sense, if you start bringing in outside people... you're more likely to end up with arbitrary and capricious decisions from which someone makes money.»

The district is relinquishing its ability to make arbitrary and capricious decisions,

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.»

Is it just on account of an arbitrary engineering decision that was made decades ago (perhaps to simplify some piping or electrics) and has just been perpetuated through inertia?

(You can replace this with «get married» or make any big life decision — apparently those with anxiety need to put their entire life on pause until they fit some arbitrary definition of mental health.)

Similarly, citing 13 weeks of age as the termination of the Critical Period was merely an arbitrary decision made by researchers — a decision which had very little relevance to the social world of companion dogs.

The narrative is also one of Witcher 3's strongest points, managing to force the player into more organic decision making rather than the arbitrary instant gratification that we've been conditioned to engage in.

At the same time, there is nothing arbitrary about the decisions he made.

I did not make an arbitrary, abstract decision.

Julia: At first glance, I agree that the decisions to group certain images seems arbitrary but my favorite aspect of the show was the free - form associations it allowed me to make.

His decision to cease making blue and red paintings in 1954 was due to his realization that viewers reacted strongly to his color choices, feeling attracted to one color or another based on arbitrary preferences, ignoring the formal problematics Reinhardt was engaged with.

Around 1960, the traditional pictorial rectangle began to be seen as arbitrary, enough so that certain abstract painters worked to make each new picture's exterior profile an active ingredient rather than a rote decision.

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 need to build this infrastructure that benefits American consumers, and so I'm hopeful, that on a bipartisan basis, we can gather around an approach to infrastructure and release those investment dollars that are anxious to be invested one they're confident there won't be arbitrary decisions made that would restrict our ability to build the infrastructure.»

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.

Given the life changing decisions made by immigration judges, arbitrary quotas should be placed on how many cases they need to rush through in any given day or week.

Where there are no published rules, there will always be a perception or suspicion of arbitrary or capricious decision making.

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?

However, the decision also makes clear that the actual moment when a child's life begins (and warrants legal protection) can not be fixed at the moment of birth any more than it can be fixed at some arbitrary point during gestation.

Stare decisis's most prominent cost is binding judges to interpretations of law that they find unpersuasive, raising the fundamental question of when and why such a restraint on judges» decision - making autonomy is justified.30 In an ideal world, stare decisis would insulate valid principles of law from arbitrary and unprincipled revision without entrenching «bad» precedent against further review.31 In reality, stare decisis hinders defection from both appealing and unappealing precedent.

A great example of how disruptive this data - driven approach to understanding your customers can be is NetFlix, which has started developing original series into hits by taking out the guesswork about what their audiences might want and replacing it with extensive knowledge gleaned from customer usage data, and putting the traditional Hollywood content development model of instinct, experience and arbitrary hope & pray decision - making to shame in the process.

The decision to use the period in the first instance was an arbitrary one, made by commercial legal publishers seeking to brand their key products in the legal marketplace.

Regulators tried, but the individual market pre-ACA was very much a Wild West of policies that didn't cover what you thought they did, lack of recourse, lack of availability of coverage, insurers making seemingly arbitrary decisions, and health expenses that were out of control.

I hope that more people with the authority to make hiring decisions will see the wisdom in hiring the most qualified candidate and stop a practice that potentially screens out good applicants because of something as arbitrary as employment status.

To avoid an arbitrary decision made by the court, you would be wise to learn more about how child custody decisions are made and the laws in your particular state.

Because the parents make the decisions, they are more likely to stick to the agreement that they have reached, than comply with an arbitrary court order that does not meet their or their children's needs.

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.).