Exacting a threshold by which utility companies must supply green energy is not just arbitrary but also expensive, forcing consumers to buy products that they may not typically select, the groups say.

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She said unions were willing to work with departments to make efficiencies, but did not want an "arbitrary cut".

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But there need not always be arbitrary, inefficient, and wasteful government regulation.

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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.

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Because the effort targets bodegas, restaurants, food carts, and movie theaters, but not convenience and grocery stores, critics say it is arbitrary.

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And not feelings about unruly (but fungible) politicians or arbitrary targets?

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The number was arbitrary, but the mood was beginning to bear down, not the cold or the wind but the missing light, the missing man.

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The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security, but at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth.

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But the definition of such an affiliation is not given, freeing the Guardians to make arbitrary decisions.

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But there are some arts of the male female divide that are not just society imposing arbitrary rules.

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