Sentences with phrase «seemingly arbitrary»

Twitter has also been criticized for the seemingly arbitrary way it enforces its rules and has previously said it plans to do a better job of responding to users» reports of abuse.

The only point of comparison is the price and the seemingly arbitrary and unexplained rating.

Thank God as that was a confusing and seemingly arbitrary distinction to make clear to end users of Google Assistant that had multiple devices with it present.

As best I can tell, there aren't any standardized activity guidelines for cats, so you have to rely on Poof's seemingly arbitrary scoring system to tell you how your pet's doing.

At least North American Android enthusiasts are highly unimpressed and even saddened / disheartened by the seemingly arbitrary rush to copy this design... I know that I would never even consider any Android phone with this unsightly design - abomination that is a notched display.

Regulators tried, but the individual market pre-ACA was very much a Wild West of policies that didn't cover what you thought they did, lack of recourse, lack of availability of coverage, insurers making seemingly arbitrary decisions, and health expenses that were out of control.

The current process undermines the rule of law due to perceptions of partisanship, the ability to appoint at pleasure through a seemingly arbitrary process, and dismiss chairs and members on arbitrary bases and without cause.

The LSLA's has consistently believed the market should determine rates and that the CJC Committee's model - expense of time plus a seemingly arbitrary pre-determined profit level - was not going to reflect market rates fairly.

Today, a lawyer can reasonably be expected to race between three or more courthouses on opposite ends of a traffic - choked city struggling to meet seemingly arbitrary times and dates just to provide a sixty second update on a case as it crawls through the system.

The new HadSST3 dataset still contains some seemingly arbitrary assumptions.

and «no data or computer code appears to be archived in relation to the paper» and «the sensitivity of Shindell's TCR estimate to the aerosol forcing bias adjustment is such that the true uncertainty of Shindell's TCR range must be huge — so large as to make his estimate worthless» and the seemingly arbitrary to cherry picked climate models used in Shindell's analysis.

Seemingly arbitrary decisions by dendro specialists on inclusion / exclusion of tree ring data has long been a source of criticism at Climate Audit.

For this viewer, the tartan abstractions work best when the composition remains informal, seemingly arbitrary, and leaves all the edges of the canvas without reference to a solid color background or a formal symmetry.

Matisse's animated brushwork and seemingly arbitrary application of bright colors, as in Woman with a Hat (1905), would prove foundational to Fauvism, while his similarly radical The Red Studio (1911) was a seminal, nearly monochromatic study in perspective.

This week we check out Rene Ricard's big,»80s - style canvases peppered with seemingly arbitrary images and nearly nonsensical inscriptions; Nadia Khawaja's carpal tunnel - inducing rhythmic, abstract pen drawings; and Peter Blake's cheery, butterfly - covered prints.

In Untitled, Kounellis arranges a series of seemingly arbitrary and incongruous letters and signs.

These seemingly arbitrary gestures become intermediaries: they are embodied in relief sculptures and incorporated into a series of transaction windows.

Gaines» work since 1990 has explored meaning in seemingly arbitrary relationships through the use of images and text.

Seemingly arbitrary forms are meticulous compositions; distinctly evocative, sensitive and forceful.

Rather than simply have a seemingly arbitrary level you have to achieve to advance the story it feels more like you constantly have a lot of short term goals that you can accomplish in not too much time.

You'll be given a seemingly arbitrary choice at the beginning of the game as to which division you'll be a part of.

It's not perfect; items are dispersed on huge grids, and must be unlocked in sequential order, which creates a seemingly arbitrary gating system.

Developers have complained that the approval process for new apps is inordinately long, and that apps have been rejected from the store for seemingly arbitrary or capricious reasons.

And with only the barest of resizing options, many of them seemingly arbitrary, there's no way to make it all line up in anything resembling a handsome layout.

And I don't just mean the often unattainable government fuel economy rating — though I will ask that you ignore the seemingly arbitrary MPGe number assigned to the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid.

In other circumstances, adult bias focuses on student behavior, with adults relying on students complying with any seemingly arbitrary boundaries and expectations laid out by their classroom teachers and building leaders.

The network created two seemingly arbitrary deadlines for Elia to respond to their appeal.

Rather than seeing a seemingly arbitrary letter at the top of a test, one that traditionally signals finality, students see what teachers like Maura and Mary Claire have helped them to interpret as a sign of possibility for continued growth.

The former teachers talk of an intimidating workplace, nepotism, a lack of transparency and seemingly arbitrary firings.

Actresses Britt Robertson and Gia Mantegna are frequently shown nude (or semi-nude) in seemingly arbitrary moments unrelated to plot or dialog.

• Also revelead this week were the seemingly arbitrary International Press Academy's Satellite Award Nominations.

It turns out the seemingly arbitrary slaying of Donal's ma was no accident, having grown from roots that go back to 1970s IRA violence and other shared family secrets.

It doesn't help that Coco's somewhat complicated mythology, which involves ofrendas, blessings, and a seemingly arbitrary sunrise deadline, also requires a good deal of table setting.

It would be useful to know if the association was dose - dependent (i.e. the more extreme the folate and B12 levels, the higher the autism risk), or was only observed for the group above this (seemingly arbitrary) cut - off.

- Reviewer 2 for the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: The trouble with the authors» suggestion in the manuscript is that it asks the reader to set this concept aside in favour of the seemingly arbitrary assertion that lifespan is normally distributed... This is asking a lot.

Cosmological natural selection could help explain the seemingly arbitrary values of fundamental constants.

Thinking broadly, Trewhella believes, is the key to bridging science's seemingly arbitrary barriers and making breakthroughs.

Their argument rests on examples in which one chimp learns from another, and on the seemingly arbitrary differences in habits between chimpanzee groups at different sites.

Moskowitz recently appealed to state education commissioner MaryEllen Elia to settle the legal discord between the city and state, assigning the state a seemingly arbitrary deadline of Feb. 15.

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.

We can not emphasize enough how seemingly arbitrary and frustrating blackout rules can be.

This seemingly arbitrary date is actually a clever and considered solution based on logic that speaks to both biologists and theologians.

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.

For all those who feel as if they've got Christians by the throat simply by pointing out that Christmas is celebrated at a seemingly arbitrary or previously pagan time of year, get your facts straight.

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Both residents and state media blasted it for its seemingly unfair and arbitrary criteria, with one state - run newspaper comparing the system to the «good citizen» certificates issued by Japan during its wartime occupation of China.

Quite the contrary, large areas of Jewish law pertain to what the Torah holds up to Jews as God's (at least seemingly) arbitrary ordinances for his people.

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.

Bound by Flame also includes the seemingly mandatory crafting system, but manages to make it feel less arbitrary than most.

One could be forgiven for noticing a resemblance between this game and a fourteen - year - old's summer project, thanks to its seemingly nonsensical nature and arbitrary mechanics.

Polyptyque (4 panneaux)(1966), Composition abstraite (1962) and Composition abstraite (1966) each feature a host of swirling, asymmetrical shapes compiled in a seemingly free composition, but as with the previous painting, no element of this is arbitrary.