Sentences with phrase «other arbitrary number»

We didn't just say, «Let's cut staffing by 30 %» or some other arbitrary number.

Not exact matches

God could have willed to order creation in an infinite number of other ways, since God's will is unbounded and arbitrary.

Clearly we could not simply state that our public policy is to limit EU immigration to a seemingly arbitrary number and expect the other 27 to agree.

Conservation triage, as Possingham and others call it, has some commonsense appeal and gives decision makers numbers to latch onto in a field where choices can seem arbitrary.

It's a somewhat arbitrary number, but it's about the cost of a chai latte — in other words, a frivolous throw - away cost.

While some say capping the number of charter schools controls the quality of education, others say the caps are arbitrary and limit opportunity.

Numbers such as «$ 6 million in 2012» have been hinted at for future pots, but — again — this is an arbitrary number seemingly unattached to other factors: downloads, rankings, retail cost of the book, anything.

What they did was pretty much take what made the first game good and ramp it up to 25, an arbitrary number that I just plucked out of the air for no discernible reason other than why the hell not.

After all, how can anyone realistically generate an arbitrary number score for something like the quality of graphics without comparing the game side by side with every other game in existence, and then with all other games on platform, and then with all games in the genre, and then with games released only in recent history (so it's held to the same standard), and so on?

About the other question, about arbitrary elements in his art, arbitrary, random and «found» need to be carefully compared and contrasted, but it needs to be pointed out that «found» elements play (found objects, colors, materials, number systems, etc.) were an important way around composition and other forms of expression.

For those upset at the arbitrary number $ 75B used for this exercise, Lomborg's other effort started asking where to spend $ 50B to «save the world».

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.

While it is good that the Board has adopted the «significant contributing factor» test for causation for both chronic and traumatic mental stress, this is not adequate to ensure equality because the policy imposes a number of other arbitrary limits on mental injuries.