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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Mr Shannon alleged his place on the year-long economic and social history course was withdrawn due to the "arbitrary figure" the college had set.

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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).

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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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We ranked the list's vehicles based on what it costs to fuel them per year, according to the EPA. We measured cars by fueling cost because the EPA lists two gas-mileage figures per car, city and highway mileage, and we did not want to make an arbitrary decision about which mileage figure is more important.

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He asked her for 1, 000 korunas, a figure that struck her as relatively arbitrary.

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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.

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