After examining divorce laws across the U.S., the commission concluded that such guidelines were "very, very arbitrary, " Mr. Kiernan said.

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Otherwise, decorating can be very arbitrary.

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So I cite those facts because it goes straight to the point about the very political and arbitrary action taken by some folks in Congress, by Republicans in Congress, to try to play political games with the payroll tax cut.

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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.

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The only thing you have to specify is the mass of the Higgs boson, after that, all interactions of the Standard Model are fixed, and you can make predictions to arbitrary accuracy (though it is very hard practically).

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He used a screwdriver to scratch the words "very silly", "really wrong" and "arbitrary" on to 24 cars, Newcastle Crown Court heard.

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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.

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