Sentences with phrase «set arbitrary»

Conversely, a court does not know your children and can set an arbitrary plan with less input from you.

It adopted a moderate anthro - emissions scenario from AR4 as the AGW input, but set arbitrary constraints on its findings by excluding the greenhouse gas outputs» warming from the assessment of the permafrost's rate of melting, and by assuming that only CO2 was emitted - which allowed the projected future output to be stated in simple carbon tonnage.

But why set the arbitrary level at $ 75b?

Martin often set arbitrary constraints on his process, eg, limiting a painting to one gallon of paint, two gallons or twenty gallons.

All too often, Call of Duty games especially, the game designers will set arbitrary limits on magazine size having nothing to do with reality or have wildly different weapon damages for guns that shoot the same bullets.

For example, say you set your arbitrary savings goal at $ 2,000,000 — and the day comes when your assets reach that $ 2,000,000 goal.

In return for this, they can make their book available for KU subscribers to read without paying for it, and Amazon set an arbitrary amount (usually in the range of two million dollars) to be shared between all the authors whose books are read.

An indie author will most likely set an arbitrary budget based on «this is all I can afford,» and then find the editing and book design options that fall within that budget, even if the result is a terrible book.

In consultation with the course instructors, we set an arbitrary pass rate of 75 % correct as a framework for comparing the two video conditions with each other and with the control condition.

Focused on building academic proficiency in English and personalization, Meaningful Student Involvement encourages schools not to set arbitrary, one - size - fits - all timelines that do not take into account the learning needs of individual English language learners.

This week the Florida Board of Education is holding three workshops to set arbitrary pass / fail cut scores for the troubled 2015 Florida Standards Assessment.

«If you just set an arbitrary target without regard for what's achievable and where they're starting from, you're just shooting in the dark,» Foster said.

The College Board set an arbitrary cut off, that is a 1550 SAT -LSB-...]

The regulations set an arbitrary standard for the «other indicators of student success or school quality» — and then make sure those indicators won't matter anyway.

In a sweet, gently didactic scene, he kisses Linda's C - section scars and laughs at suburbia's «idiots» who set arbitrary, punishing standards of beauty and puritanical standards of conduct.

So don't set an arbitrary goal to lose a certain amount of weight.

«My opinion is that scientists do not know enough to set arbitrary limits on life.

Stories frequently emerge of advisers being set arbitrary targets to achieve this and being forced to find inventive ways to fulfill their quota.

EFA would not expect local authorities or colleges to set an arbitrary maximum number of hours for the study programmes, but instead to provide the number of hours required by the student to complete the programme.

Dortmund set an arbitrary August deadline for any transfer to be tied up, and it passed with Aubameyang still a BVB player.

Or we set arbitrary price ceilings on the stock, and we sell.

It would allow victims to bypass the prosecution and petition judges for hasty trials, as well as set arbitrary limits on the time to complete a state - level appeal.

So, I initially set some arbitrary targets like $ 2000 or whatever as a selling point, but then there's the regret I'd have to contend with if it goes to $ 20,000 in 2 years.

«If you sincerely want the world to be a better place, and you believe business is a way to get there, then it's pure academic nonsense to set some arbitrary size limit above which you can not be a responsible company,» says Gary Hirshberg, who founded the organic yogurt maker Stonyfield Farm in Londonderry, N.H., in 1983.

Otis spokesperson Jodi Hynes says, «we do not set arbitrary time limits.»

It is just the government setting an arbitrary qualification on who qualifies with the end result of preventing the «non-rich» from participating in investments.

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

It is clear that, by setting the arbitrary constants in (2) equal to the particular values a, b, c in (1), the hue scale will be in the units of wavelength.

So rather than we (the parents) setting arbitrary starting dates for introducing solids, and pushing «mush» (as they call it) on our little ones, it makes more sense to put «real» food in front of baby and let him take care of the rest.

And think about it this way, if the school is already setting an arbitrary deadline for toileting skills and not taking into account the individual needs of each child, what other areas will they apply this thinking to as well?

«So setting an arbitrary cap is not helpful, it almost certainly won't achieve the below 100,000 level the Conservatives have set anyway, so let's be practical about it.»

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.

And I'm tired of the various «caucuses» setting arbitrary standards entirely of their own creation, then decreeing that whomever does not meet that standard is «disrespecting» them.

Trump also unnecessarily disrupted the lives of «Dreamers» — some 800,000 undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children — and their families by ending President Obama's DACA policy, setting an arbitrary deadline (March 5, 2018) for Congress to save the program and then breaking promise after promise to support a bipartisan legislative solution.

It is important to build a diverse and inclusive workforce intelligently, not by sacrificing quality or setting arbitrary quotas.

The latter approach is simply inappropriate and unfair; why does setting an arbitrary bar and % cut mean our pupils who clear the bar will be more capable than before?

Resist the temptation of setting arbitrary improvement goals such as «increase by 5 percent.»

Reading goals are normally synonymous with a resolution, but resolutions should be focused on changing habits rather than goals, so I would say if you are looking to read more, think about what things you can change about your day to day to accomplish that, rather than setting an arbitrary quota.

Others take a similar approach but instead of setting an arbitrary income requirement for their retirement (whether traditional or early), instead they have a goal of retiring without reduction in their current level of income.

Some of you might disagree, and look to get the absolute «most» out of your miles — but Milenomics isn't about setting an arbitrary level to redeem at.

It also brings up the question of how to handle special game modes like one - city - challenge where the player voluntarily sets arbitrary and harsh restrictions on himself.

The latter would effectively reduce a quadratic to a constant but avoids imposing a model on the data from the outset and setting arbitrary boundary conditions like a zero slope at the beginning of the record.

While emissions standards have a noble objective, what we need much, much more than legislators setting an arbitrary standard is a gas tax.

«The State Dept made clear that setting an arbitrary deadline would put the State Department in a corner» and would not allow them to review the route «in a proper way,» Carney said.

Unless it is on a case by case basis, which would no doubt leave room for significant disputes, setting an arbitrary amount could just end in everyone being unhappy!

If we're trying to reduce delays in our legal system, setting these arbitrary limits and then making people have to challenge them by introducing evidence to the contrary and challenging the practice of the analytical process employed in the particular case is only going to cause more significant delays.»

My concern is that the Supreme Court, by setting an arbitrary limit with scant comparable evidence on trial delay, has stirred up a hornet's nest in political circles, where justice spending doesn't have the same political cachet as hospital spending.

A unique membership token mechanism makes Token Clarity an exclusive financial research product, without setting an arbitrary equilibrium between price and distribution.

If the property in question is a larger parcel — say 40 to 60 acres, Humongous Bank sets an arbitrary rule that it will only consider granting a mortgage on the value of the house plus five acres with nothing allowed for the other improvements (out - buildings) and the additional acres.

But, when the list price is arbitrary — and generally in excess of market value — giving a discount merely sets another arbitrary price.