Sentences with phrase «on arbitrary nature»

I won't dwell on the arbitrary nature of that date, or the centuries between one area and another.

The speaker places a jar into a rural landscape where it imposes a fortuitous order on arbitrary nature.

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so, if there is agreement on the nature of morality from most religions, wouldn't that make holding specific, e.g. christian, religious beliefs even more arbitrary?

On this account, to refuse marriage to gay couples is not to say that they may not marry (which might seem arbitrary and unjust) but simply that, given the very nature of marriage itself, they can not marry.

If the framers of the Constitution had been more morally courageous in identifying slavery as an evil, or if the later compensatory amendment had rooted liberty in a common human nature rather than on weaker procedural grounds of equality under the law, then perhaps the expansion of protected classes and arbitrary rights would not have advanced so stridently.

Yet natural law theory holds that the judgments of good and evil are not (or at least should not be) arbitrary judgments based on convenience or political utility, but are in fact located in the very nature of the behaviors (or behavers) themselves.

And to the original article, any marriage will fail horribly if it's based entirely on following silly arbitrary laws that deny human nature.

The contrived nature of the system is even more abundantly clear when it comes to the discriminatory burdens placed on the nation's minor parties and independent candidates, whether the issue is unfair ballot access laws or the arbitrary and exclusionary 15 percent polling threshold imposed by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) on the Libertarian Party's Gary Johnson and Jill Stein of the Greens — or any other third - party presidential candidate, for that matter — to appear in the nationally - televised debates this autumn.

Given the simpler, mechanical nature of the Graham / Schloss approach, an arbitrary upper limit on the number of stocks in my portfolio seems unnecessary and probably raises my opportunity costs.

The film could be seen as a slapstick take on cultural history — both its reliance on stereotypes and its arbitrary nature.

Justice Newbury rejected this argument, finding that the arbitrary nature of the case was that the facts were unusual as the compensation would be based on the value of the estate, which was not based on any skill of the lawyers involved.

In public regulation of this sort there is no such thing as absolute and untrammelled «discretion», that is that action can be taken on any ground or for any reason that can be suggested to the mind of the administrator; no legislative Act can, without express language, be taken to contemplate an unlimited arbitrary power exercisable for any purpose, however capricious or irrelevant, regardless of the nature or purpose of the statute.

One definition of arbitrary is: «based on or determined by individual preference or convenience rather than by necessity or the intrinsic nature of something» Consequently the question becomes, who is being arbitrary and who is acting dangerously in the interests of efficiency?