Sentences with phrase «other arbitrary system»

It is absurd to read it as a preference for some other arbitrary system that was not on the table.

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Those who spoke to Quartz felt the performance review system could be unfair or even arbitrary, with managers awarding higher scores to friends or favorites, to the detriment of other team members.

At scale we will use this liquidity system to set all of our exchange rates across all currency pairs for which there are liquid exchanges (in other words, the rate is not simply arbitrary.)

If there is any public policy proposition that a pluralistic system must agree upon — for the protection of all its members — it is that human life must be immune from arbitrary violation by other humans.

Cudworth, more clearly than any of his contemporaries, realized that if nature was in some sense a coherent and intelligible system, then it could not be explained in terms either of the random movements of matter in space such as Hobbes supposed or of arbitrary and incalculable acts of God and other supernatural and demonic agents.

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 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.

BAAM - CI, a large - scale additive manufacturing platform, allows arbitrary geometric components to be 3 - D printed on a scale 10 times larger than any other commercial system.

Lubbers observed that the issues of an asylum - seeking have henceforth been approached with prudence and led to close scrutiny of both refugee and immigration regulations.37 Refugees and asylum - seekers are the most victims of the growing climate of fear of terrorism and other transnational crimes and thus being treated with suspicion, and sometimes, arbitrary detained and, actually, deported.38 The states are changing their refugee - immigration related policies because of concern that the terrorists may gain entry to the territory through the channel of asylum system.39

Parameters in the plan work to «pull» teachers already in the system to remain until arbitrary points in their careers, and «push» teachers out after these points — regardless of their life circumstances, passion or dispassion for teaching and other job conditions.

Because once such a system is in place, some teachers will be found to be better than others, which could lead to ditching an arbitrary seniority system should layoffs be a necessity.

Still others (such as Apple iBooks) apply a proprietary DRM — «Digital Rights Management» technology that encrypts the content of an EPUB file such that it can only be read on the vendor's own software and can't be «sideloaded» into other EPUB compatible reading systems — note that while Apple doesn't make their FairPlay DRM available to 3rd - party reading systems, even on Apple devices and computers, Apple iBooks does allow users to «sideload» non-DRM protected EPUB files that come from arbitrary sources.

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.

One who thinks any naming is just an arbitrary cultural invention equal in value to all other namings — the only inferior system being that of the mad robot scientists who secretly rule 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.

Section III of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — 5th Edition (DSM - 5) offers an alternative model for personality disorders intended to address the scientific problems of the categorical system (currently preserved in Section II), including within - diagnosis heterogeneity, excessive overlap with other diagnoses, and arbitrary categories that were developed from diverse traditions and clinical observations.