Sentences with phrase «of arbitrary rules»

The toolset of denialist restriction - by - authority is always the same: rudeness, abuse, anger amounting to rage, personal profiling, selective enforcement of arbitrary rules, legal threats, enemy lists, and outright censorship of threatening ideas — always with a view toward sustaining a «protected bubble» for denialist beliefs.

Attached to the wall, hand - sanitiser dispensers of the type you find in hospitals reinforce the impression of arbitrary rules being enforced (speaking on the opening day, Sworn cites Eula Biss's On Immunity (2014), which suggests that these devices serve no purpose beyond reassurance).

A civilised society should have a system which encourages competition to raise animal welfare standards, not competition to lower them and we should not jeopardise our farming industry simply because of some arbitrary rules set down by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).

It's just I have found these people in particular that feel their own inadequacies so strongly that it compels them to prove their own self - worth by adhering to some set of arbitrary rules that they legitimize with trumped up science and a gang mentality.

God's Law isn't a list of arbitrary rules, but help guide us to understanding and conforming to His nature, which is the only real source of Goodness.

because of arbitrary rules they made up.

Dr Ahmad said once media play its investigative role and providing the public with information about the actions and opinions of the legislators, tyranny and excesses of arbitrary rule would be prevented.

You should not feel obligated to spend a certain percentage of your income on mortgage payments, just because of some arbitrary rule of thumb you found on the Internet.

It's somewhat of an arbitrary rule, though the idea is just so you can't sign - up for a hundred accounts and instantly purchase miles out of them.

Not exact matches

Federal Court Judge Michael Phelan ruled that forcing patients to buy marijuana through the mail from a licensed producer was an «arbitrary and overbroad» violation of patients» charter rights.

While it is somewhat arbitrary, I use a rule of thumb that anything that involves a timeline of less than a year should be considered a tactic; anything longer than a year becomes a strategy.

Ruling out a huge portion of the talent pool in favor of an arbitrary hiring requirement is not the smartest move.

Americans for Annuity Protection has engaged in active outreach to leaders of influence to establish the argument that the DOL's fiduciary rule should be returned because of the analysis performed by the department is flawed, inconclusive and arbitrary; it is not compatible with the Uniform Security Law or established insurance law, and the law has potential conflict with the Dodd - Frank requirements to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on reviewing a uniform fiduciary standard.

While numerous crypto exchanges are offering their services, the pitfalls of centralized systems plus the often unfair trading fees, arbitrary rules and security threats add considerable risk for users.

There are certain aspects of religion that used to be anathema to me: anything with a whiff of submissiveness, modesty or apparently arbitrary rules.

Not merely arbitrary rules for what to do and don't do, but the kinds of things important to maintaining a functional, peaceful, stable society.

They think ownership of another persons life is perfectly fine if god gives some arbitrary rules.

Indeed even the rule of law is a nondemocratic principle, sorely needed to hold in check the potentially arbitrary whims of the popular will.

To assent to the rules of engagement prescribed by liberal public reason is to accept a voluntary and arbitrary limit on how deeply one is willing to think, which then becomes an involuntary limit on how far one is able to see.

People are tortured because of the arbitrary and obviously unclear rules that your god puts forth.

When you strip the conformist requirement, suppression of the individual, arbitrary and anachronistic rules, and ritual observances, it is very easy for a group of otherwise good people to become an unthinking mob.

They worship tradition, dress up in gaudy expensive clothes and march around, making arbitrary rules and regulations about every little thing, thinking if they do these things and make magical gestures that this somehow «cleanses» the outside of the cup, yet Jesus already knew of their type of priest in the old days, speaking against Pharisees for doing the exact same things the Catholics have been doing for centuries.

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.

Are the rules according to which it proceeds arbitrary selections of the mind?

Many commonplaces of today are the improbabilities of yesterday, and in any branch of science «improbabilities» occur from time to time which are apparently arbitrary exceptions to previously observed rules.

These aren't arbitrary rules; these aren't some sort of cosmic, intangible things God has come up with just to see how we are doing.

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?»

The freedom of the Christian man which Luther rewon for the Christian is that which comes from seeing that no arbitrary rule, ecclesiastical law, or abstract principle takes precedence over this concrete necessity and our conscientious response to it.

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.

If the participation of persons in world mission is lacking or is limited by arbitrary rules, all areas of the church's life will suffer.

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.

Ginsberg came down particularly hard on the commissioner's decision to increase Rice's initial two - game suspension to an indefinite one, a decision a judge ruled arbitrary at the conclusion of the appeal hearing.

But it should also be noted that more often than not, those same arbitrary rules have led to your team being given spectacular opportunities, opportunities that more often than not you didn't take advantage of.

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.

Insurance companies are not in compliance with the law if they have arbitrary rules for a set number of consultations or certain age of the baby.

The whole idea of trying to police a set of sometimes logical and sometimes arbitrary laws through a combination of rule setting, surveillance, «keeping the peace», and punishment gives me the hives.

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.

These charters all aimed to curtail arbitrary rule, but could only be guaranteed by the force of royal oath.

The term servitù is always the one he uses when speaking of how an individual or a whole people living subject to the discretionary power of someone else will suffer loss of liberty, whether the power be internal to the polity (in the form of a prince or ruling oligarchy wielding arbitrary control) or external (in the form of a colonising power).

Each of these rules is a barrier to arbitrary uses of power by the majority.

On 15 June 1215 at Runnymede (a small meadow outside of London, marking the midpoint between two armies locked in civil war) King John set his seal on Magna Carta — the «great charter» that has become synonymous throughout the world with opposition to arbitrary rule, and with the protection of individual rights and liberties.

A federal judge ruled against the Trump administration's decision to end a program protecting some young immigrants from deportation, calling the Department of Homeland Security's rationale against the program «arbitrary and capricious.»

For republicans, interference is rendered not arbitrary — and so does not reduce our freedom — when we are subject to the rule of law.

The chorus of criticism is clear: setting an arbitrary rule that you have to maintain a surplus radically limits the chancellor's room to manoeuvre when there are economic problems.

The Ghana Police Service must show fidelity to the state rather than the ruling government, and also, be professional in their conduct in order to protect life and property of all our citizens, instead of the arbitrary application of its powers.

«The granting of pardon also amounts to an arbitrary exercise of powers, which can only continue to weaken the rule of law, deny justice to the victims of corruption, and entrench a culture of impunity of the country's leaders,» the organization said.