Two arbitrary benchmarks must be met to find targeted dumping.

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And in the general election itself it is by no means certain that Mr Hague's promise to rule out British membership for an arbitrary period of two parliaments will play better than Mr Blair's promise of a referendum as soon as the time is right.

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State and federal sentencing guidelines have been introduced, over the past two decades, to rule out arbitrary behaviour by judges.

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Rich and poor alike have accepted the somewhat arbitrary principle that warming should not be allowed to exceed two degrees.

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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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