Sentences with phrase «so arbitrary a reason»

For me it's simply logic — my body isn't counting down days until my baby turns six months or a year, and the milk doesn't automatically switch off, so I can't see how the benefits (including immune benefits) would suddenly stop for so arbitrary a reason either.

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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.

Reformer Michelle Rhee has noted that while there should be protections in place so that teachers can't be fired for arbitrary reasons, she doesn't think we need to reform tenure; she doesn't see any need for it at all.

Dennis Cooper's experience is not unique — Amazon authors often get their work pulled for very arbitrary reasons — so there is no 100 % protection from robot overlords censoring your work.

The reason is that there are so many risks: government regulations of short - selling (SEC Rule 204), special government regulations put in place during market panics (e.g. the 2008 SEC ban on short selling financials), forced buy - ins, unlimited losses, debt to the brokerage, interest one is charged for being short which can vary arbitrarily, brokerages could change margin requirements to any arbitrary amount, arbitration clauses, you agree to indemnify the brokerage for anything it did even if it did the wrong thing, some brokerages also do market - making and thus have further incentive to fleece the client, and all the other «screw you» legal language that you agreed to when opening an account.

As a photographer, Cliff can use his camera to snap shots of noteworthy objects and scenes throughout the story, and there's no real reason for doing so other than going through an arbitrary «yay videogame content» checklist.

In 1962 Donald Judd wrote, «The only reason Chamberlain is not the best American sculptor under forty is the incommensurability of «the best» which makes it arbitrary to say so.»

Street checks are police instigated stops in high - crime neighbourhoods, and the reason the tactic has received so much recent media attention is because it usually results in arbitrary detention of citizens.

... we may not consider the correctness of the court's ruling de novo or second guess its exercise of discretion... Rather, we are limited to a determination of whether the court's decision was «manifestly unsupported by reason or so arbitrary that it could not have been the result of a reasoned decision.»

So we had to make decisions that might have been a bit arbitrary, including the decision that we would test a combination of individual and group ST.. We reached this decision with the reasoning that each format meets a different kind of need (for individual attention and for being a member of a group of peers, etc.).