Sentences with phrase «own arbitrary rules»

Arbitrary rules about meeting length or procedure may have their place, but the truth is the situation is fluid and it's hard to design guidelines that will fit all circumstances, especially as your company grows.

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.

Not getting into a club or obeying arbitrary rules.

Until this is accepted, the Abrahamic religions are going to have an increasingly difficult time, as fewer an fewer people will accept arbitrary rules based on irrational principles.

Another reason is the arbitrary rules.

These people can't accept that reality because it would mean that they have no reason to oppose homosexuality other than a completely arbitrary rule that divides humanity into two different classes without any real reason to do so.

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.

because of arbitrary rules they made up.

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.

The «christian view» goes something like this, «there is a benevolent sky daddy who made some arbitrary rules that include condoning slavery and stoning unruly children to death, and if I don't follow these rules, I burn in hell for all eternity... unless I ask for forgiveness at some point before I die, then all is forgiven and I live in heaven for all eternity, even if I'm a baby rapist!».

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.

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.

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.

often religion sets arbitrary rules that bring people into conflict where there was none.

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.

As soon as we start making arbitrary rules, it quickly becomes impossible to live them out consistently.

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.

Plus, dogmatic adherence to what really are arbitrary rules (as opposed to a gluten free diet, which has established medical benefits for those who need it) tends to annoy me.

This is a sport / entertainment for crying out loud... Things that don't affect fighter safety like 0.2 lbs they can look the other way... Let's not apply super strict rules to a sport that has arbitrary rules in the first place!

The only semi-compelling argument behind teams testing for pot is itself a rationalization — that the testing is simply an «intelligence test» to see if the player will follow (or successfully skirt) an arbitrary rule that has no bearing whatsoever on their ability to do their job at a high level.

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.

Mythrules are directives whose original purposes are often lost on students and which, as a result, are often perceived as arbitrary rules they must follow.

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.

Lose arbitrary rules.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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).

Too often we see government making arbitrary rules for businesses based on false or incomplete data.

In modern usage, legal or administrative bodies with strict, arbitrary rulings and secretive proceedings are sometimes called, metaphorically or poetically, «star chambers».

To map conscious and unconscious processing of information, Lieberman used a classic psychology experiment in which subjects learn arbitrary rules about stringing letters together, known as an artificial grammar.

I love pumpkin everything... but I have an arbitrary rule that I can't indulge until October.

I'm really not one for following arbitrary rules.

Rules like this aren't normally necessary but if you can't help but sending 3 emails asking if everything is okay it would be far better to have arbitrary rules like this.

Some people consider arbitrary rules to be game playing.

A preoccupation with arbitrary rules and numbers recalls Lanthimos» earlier, funnier work with co-writer Efthymis Filippou.

There are certain arbitrary rules that seem to define awards season: Movies released early in the year will be ignored; Horror never gets nominated; First time directors don't have a chance; Stories about racism should be told through a white gaze.

Unlike that other 2010 movie that made such a big deal of explaining arbitrary rules for getting from one level of storytelling to another, «The Social Network» just does it.

As a Hitchcock blonde, she would have been expected to at least sacrifice her individuality and strength at the altar of the questionable prize of domesticity, marking the world of the picture as Hitchcock's perhaps German Expressionist - inspired nightmare of automatons ruled by arbitrary rules and social systems.

Thankfully, things are back in order this year, at least in terms of following arbitrary rules about how many top things you're allowed to...

Truly, «Mad Max: Fury Road» and my No. 2 pick are both the best films of 2015 in my mind — and incredibly different in what makes them the best — but the arbitrary rules of list - making dictate that I must choose.

Class size is a favorite target of theirs, and economist Eric Hanushek is one of those who imposes his own arbitrary rules to distort class size research findings.

In a major speech, Theresa May will launch the new government's green paper, including plans to scrap the «arbitrary rule» which prevents new grammar schools from opening.