Sentences with phrase «with arbitrary rules»

One feels forced to come up with arbitrary rules to narrow the field.

Without the answer to the question, the verification of identity becomes a sadly familiar exercise in blind compliance with arbitrary rules.

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

Not exact matches

Americans for Annuity Protection has engaged in active outreach to leaders of influence to establish the argument that the DOL's fiduciary rule should be returned because of the analysis performed by the department is flawed, inconclusive and arbitrary; it is not compatible with the Uniform Security Law or established insurance law, and the law has potential conflict with the Dodd - Frank requirements to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on reviewing a uniform fiduciary standard.

There are certain aspects of religion that used to be anathema to me: anything with a whiff of submissiveness, modesty or apparently arbitrary rules.

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.

Referring to C. S. Lewis's much - cited claim in The Abolition of Man, Kass writes that if «man's so - called power over nature is, in truth, always a power exercised by some over others with knowledge of nature as their instrument, can it really be liberating to exchange the rule of nature for the role of arbitrary human will?»

Left with nothing but inherited sensibilities and arbitrary fiat, their heteronormative measure failed where its procreative predecessor had succeeded for centuries, in offering sound reasons for rules.

Let's say there's a law against paying for lunch with money from your right pocket (likely a law sponsored by Senator Warren, as this would be an arbitrary, ineffective, and invasive financial rule).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Expressed mathematically, Leonardo's rule says that if a branch with diameter (D) splits into an arbitrary number (n) of secondary branches of diameters (d1, d2, et cetera), the sum of the secondary branches» diameters squared equals the square of the original branch's diameter.

The Hyper Games do not inhibit athletes with arbitrary definitions of «fairness» or with patronizing safety rules.

But arbitrary rigid rules aren't sustainable and will likely lead to an unhealthy relationship with food.

Watching Krisha is a revelation: there are expected «rules» for such material (a former addict returns home for a holiday), but then director / writer Trey Edward Shults breaks every rule, making those rules seem tired and arbitrary in the process, and he does so with bravura, confidence, flash.

«The problem with such arbitrary percentage rules is that they prevent a full cost analysis by state and local governments and arbitrarily eliminate sound renovation projects.

What is the main issue is all of the other rules and regulations (some of which are incredibly arbitrary) that go along with these programs make it undesirable to participate in the program.

For others, Amazon is symbolic of everything wrong with corporations: arbitrary rules, hoops to jump through, and now, even the loss of revenue, income, and a potential fan base.

As she explained in a Commerce Committee meeting on aviation safety, these rules seem almost arbitrary in light of the fact that they are not in place for the numerous people who travel on Air Force One, all presumably with portable devices.

Essentially, this ruling now makes breed specific legislation in Ohio for anything beyond «purebred» American Pit Bull Terriers and American Staffordshire Terriers very problematic — meaning that they would have to go through all due processes and puts more pressure on cities with laws pertaining to mixed breeds and other breeds, like cane corsos, that declaring these types of dogs dangerous without due process is «unreasonable and arbitrary.»

Taken together with the way it locks off so much content until you hit arbitrary levels it feels bizarrely restrictive, forcing players into a grind - like trajectory that gradually dishes out tools that make gameplay more interesting, even as the deliberately limited combinations of rules, maps and modes chip away at the initially intoxicating sugar rush appeal.

Whereas, conceptual artist John Baldessari has incorporated appropriated stock and movie imagery combined with texts for the narrative potential of images and the associative power of language, because of the structural similarities of linguistics to games, since both operate as a mixture of arbitrary and mandatory systems of rules.

Combining the scientific with the arbitrary, at times juxtaposing the two in order to force the viewer to question their assumptions about rules in the natural and formulaic world, Abdul - Aziz is methodical in her explorations.

And how they did that, you know, objectively, without coming up with some completely arbitrary set of rules.

The toolset of denialist restriction - by - authority is always the same: rudeness, abuse, anger amounting to rage, personal profiling, selective enforcement of arbitrary rules, legal threats, enemy lists, and outright censorship of threatening ideas — always with a view toward sustaining a «protected bubble» for denialist beliefs.

We often get frustrated with seemingly unnecessary red tape and arbitrary rules — but every once in a while we run across requirements from other countries that are mind boggling.

Manages the office «as if it were Yugoslavia circa 1971» with too many forms, arbitrary rules and favoritism.

The intestacy rules apply in an arbitrary manner, particularly where a client does not have children, because a surviving spouse or civil partner may have to share assets with other relatives — whom the client may not wish to benefit.

This is another move toward a pro-temporary foreign worker environment, Bellissimo says, adding that although it was «a controversial and arbitrary rule» best done away with, «optically, it played well to the politics to say either they're immigrants who are staying or they're workers who are moving on.»

Arbitrary «exemptions» from costs management do not fit with either the rules or practice.

But apart from the (rather fundamental) rule of law point — that obligations need to have some legal authority for them to be binding — if they do want to impose such an obligation, it should be expressly set out in the Rules, with a corresponding commentary, so that lawyers know exactly what actions they have to take, or not take, to comply with their obligation (and, crucially, aren't at the whim of arbitrary diktats from the LSUC).

I just found the system so obsessed with forms and rules: It often seemed so picky and arbitrary, and rules - and rights - oriented.

For many couples — particularly young couples with strong social support — the rule is simply arbitrary.

«No Member Board, nor any Institute, Society or Council, shall apply any arbitrary numerical or other inequitable limitation on its membership nor adopt any rule, regulation, practice or policy inconsistent with or contrary to any policy adopted by the Board of Directors.»

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.