Sentences with phrase «on arbitrary lines»

It would be naive, I believe, to think we will have a unified global price, but my pitch is much more about promoting a measure of effort which is not based on arbitrary lines in the sand.

Not exact matches

For another, angled lines drawn on charts, such as the lines drawn on the HUI chart displayed above, are always subjective interpretations and somewhat arbitrary.

It invents an arbitrary line between citizen - enemies and alien enemy combatants, holding that flexible and uncertain rights to a «hearing» on their combatant status must be accorded to certain classes of combatants.

There are of course many exceptions on both sides of wherever that arbitrary dork - line is drawn.

And it's a straight line, and it also wraps around the sky from east to west, so if you see a planet, the planet has to be on that line; it can't just be in some arbitrary place.

But he said only lines that were developed before 9 p.m. on Aug. 9, 2001, could be used, which obviously seems like a bit of an arbitrary deadline.

Area 2 includes the town of Ileret, is bounded on the northwest by Il Eriet, on the east manly by Ileret Road, on the southwest by an 4 arbitrary line segments through areas with little or no exposure, and by Lake Turkana on the west.

The Supreme Court rejected the district court's assertion that the school district boundaries «are no more than arbitrary lines on a map.»

«Unsettled Landscapes» will plumb the thorny question of land and the meaning of land — who owns it, who sells it, who depends on it, who exploits it, who draws arbitrary lines across it, who despoils it, who defends it, who holds it sacred, and why.

In this spirit, many of his works are sequences showing attempts at accomplishing an arbitrary goal, such as Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (1973), in which the artist attempted to do just that, photographing the results, and eventually selecting the «best out of 36 tries», with 36 being the determining number just because that is the standard number of shots on a roll of 35 mm film.

This lone line on a pristine sheet of paper in Shilpa Gupta's solo exhibition succinctly sums up the plight of people whose lives undergo dramatic changes by the often arbitrary redrawing of national borders.

As we now know, both definitions of the philosophical «scratch line» were not merely arbitrary, but rested on factually false assumptions....

Maintaining those trend lines will depend on how policymakers answer a number of questions, most notably having to do with declining domestic gasoline consumption, changing market dynamics for American refineries, and the removal of arbitrary barriers to exporting certain energy products that were installed during the OPEC embargoes of the 1970s.

Others there also tried to make clear the point that the line drawn between a «5» and a «4» is arbitrary and the risk of strong storms is based on physics of large weather systems not on the category number assigned.

I think the purchaser's reliance upon this clause can be described as «capricious or arbitrary» where the vendors had removed the curb and replaced it within the lot line so that it did not encroach on the adjacent lot, and I can not find her action to be «reasonable and in good faith» Vendors and purchasers owe a duty to each other honestly to perform a contract honestly made.

To institute a divisional Multiple Listing Service based on geographic lines within a Board jurisdictional area limits access to Board services and activities in a way which could be deemed and adjudged arbitrary and unreasonable.