Of course, for people outside of Silicon Valley, dividing the world like that is a bit arbitrary.
The Bolivarian state wants to rule in a most arbitrary manner and have its prerogatives above any civil group.
But as I've thought about it this year, I'm wondering if my stance is a bit arbitrary: I don't adhere to most of the rules and guidelines prescribed by Jewish dogma.
For Gazprom to succeed it needs to maintain a patina of respectability and fairness, something that will quickly become impossible if its persists in pricing its gas in such a completely arbitrary and haphazard manner.
You know, the kind of fragmentation that has already left users running not one, not two, not three, but four distinct versions of the little green guy (1.5, 1.6, 2.0, and 2.1) depending on a seemingly arbitrary formula of hardware, carrier, region, software customization, and manufacturers' ability to push updates in a timely fashion.
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It is entirely a function of an arbitrary budget "bogey" and a desperate, hasty effort to figure out how much can be maintained and acquired for that amount.
When a word is arbitrary, it is most easily protected against imitators.
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And yet, less than one week from now, Congress is poised to allow a series of arbitrary, automatic budget cuts that will do the exact opposite.
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Unfortunately, in just four days, Congress is poised to allow a series of arbitrary, automatic budget cuts to kick in that will slow our economy, eliminate good jobs, and leave a lot of folks who are already pretty thinly stretched scrambling to figure out what to do.
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Electoral reform in Scotland and Wales has achieved its object of ensuring that a party without a majority of the votes cannot claim the arbitrary power of a sovereign majority, though the prime minister appears to have been surprised to discover that this was the case.
An inauguration date of January 20 can seem arbitrary when a country is facing its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
In practice, it's a confusing set of arbitrary guidelines not everyone follows.
Again, without a culture specific, consumption specific account of risk, the claim is meaningless, a product of the arbitrary weightings of the risk model.
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Their primary function is to provide "signals" of intelligence and competency, which is why they put students through a variety of mostly arbitrary and useless academic hoops.
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Almost as bad as noncomputable problems are intractable ones (such as determining whether there is a guaranteed winning strategy for an arbitrary chess position), which cannot be solved in a reasonable amount of time.
Even if voters understood what nominal GDP was - as they currently don't - will they really ever believe that a government is going to withstand years of well above, or well below, target inflation, simply to get back to a particular, fairly arbitrary path for the cash value of the economy that was laid down by the folk who were in power before them?
No doubt, the sequester is a blunt, inefficient, arbitrary, even stupid way to cut outlays.
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Again, this is an arbitrary deadline on a number of moving parts politicians already kicked once from 2010 to 2013.
People know anywhere from 50, 000 to 100, 000 words, each of them an arbitrary pairing between a sound and a meaning.
This frame rate stuck as a result of this rather arbitrary decision.
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Since call-centre conversations tend to be about very specific subjects, this is a far less daunting task than creating a system able to hold arbitrary conversations.
Charles Dickens, for example, or Bob Dylan, who is represented by a list of twenty-seven quotations that will seem, to anyone who is a Dylan listener, hopelessly arbitrary.
Several oil-services companies and politicians in Louisiana have challenged the drilling ban on the grounds that it is arbitrary and has a negative economic impact on the region.
David Sloan Wilson, of Binghamton University, in New York state, agrees with that point, but reckons the actual moral sense an individual acquires is not arbitrary, as a language is, but is functionally adapted to circumstances.
But union leaders say it will mean hundreds of arbitrary sackings, a version that has been vehemently denied by the Peruvian government but that has been carefully used by union leaders to manipulate the teachers to march.
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There was a time when I might have speculated on the cause but then I learned that rather than continuously update my priors I should instead consider every piece of evidence in isolation and adhere strictly to the absolutely non-arbitrary standard of a 95% confidence interval.
Moreover, to put such a question off-limits is arbitrary.
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He asked her for 1, 000 korunas, a figure that struck her as relatively arbitrary.
Its aim is to provide a modicum of systemic stability by discouraging arbitrary arrest and prosecution.
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