It's an arbitrary assumption, but it does show the relative success of schools in their missions.
Tomosynthesis is a three-dimensional imaging technique that provides an arbitrary set of reconstructed images of the breast.
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Faced with an arbitrary ceiling on spending, a determined Congress could easily turn those subsidies into tax credits.
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The formula to decide which ones to restrict and which ones not to would surely be an arbitrary one.
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What we did not anticipate was an arbitrary decision to constrain consumer choice.
It's an arbitrary assumption--who knows what turns a person's career might have taken?
The earned income credit actually works as an arbitrary ceiling on earning power.
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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.
The American solution: Issue development permits in an arbitrary way, so that zoning insiders and their lawyers get all the loot.
Because many things everybody knows about are technically secret, creating an arbitrary, ever-shifting line between the classified and the public domains.
Second, he feels that the 24 FPS is an arbitrary choice that is not necessarily the best way to present a film.
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If they did have coverage, insurance companies might impose an arbitrary limit.
In fact, 10, 000 barrels provided to be an arbitrary enough figure it was not much later changed to 15, 000 (where it remains today).
If funds must be reallocated from the 1990 account, it should be done on a considered basis, not according to an arbitrary figure.
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The coroner says one challenge has been fixing a time of death for Katrina's victims, so he says he's made an arbitrary decision.
An arbitrary system like IPAB lacks transparency and oversight, substituting an unelected board for government, without any true checks and balances by Congress.
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"Asking search engines to withdraw the information in an arbitrary manner is very dangerous, " Google lawyer Luis Javier Aparicio Falon told the court.
How can it be more plausible to draw an arbitrary line based on equidistance when there is already a jurisdictional boundary set out?
But if you had told me to just to cut back, the cutback would have been an arbitrary number, rather than an informed decision.
Ultimately, such a model arrives at a cross roads where it has to either limit access in an arbitrary way, or face uncontrolled cost increases.
Why make fans stay up until two or three in the morning and restrict the number of debut-night showings, studio executives reasoned, based on an arbitrary rule?
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.
To put up an arbitrary barrier and keep it out of the hands of someone who might evangelize that work is a bad business decision for the author.
It vowed to take the fight to CITES. Sergi Tudela, WWF's head of fisheries in the Mediterranean, said the announced reduction was an arbitrary political measure for one year.
Which is why McCullough also talked about the importance of pursuing passions for the sake of passions, rather than seeking accolades or striking off items from an arbitrary checklist.
Moreover, you suggest that monetary policy can be guided by an index that combines conventional measures of consumer prices with an arbitrary measure of inflation in current house transactions.
The completion handler is called on an arbitrary queue.
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That is, rather than announcing plans to stop printing money at an arbitrary date or dollar figure, the Fed announced it would continue printing money until an economic recovery got under way.
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