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Arbitrary
"Arbitrary" in a Sentence (16 examples)
My mother prefers the arbitrary selection of the lottery machines over my lucky numbers.
Our decision to go to Portugal was quite arbitrary.
Of course, they are suffering from terrible working conditions such as low wages and arbitrary layoffs, as well as from various forms of discrimination.
Lemma 5 cannot be generalized to arbitrary artinian rings.
Nowhere but in the world of the antique is it more obvious that many of the things that we as individuals hold dear are completely arbitrary.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
C++0x will admit template functions that take an arbitrary number of arguments.
Godwin's law teaches us that any infinite discussion about an arbitrary subject converges to a Nazi comparison.
It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures.
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Benjamin Franklin's designation of "positive" and "negative" to different charges was arbitrary.
The decision to use 18 years as the legal age of adulthood was arbitrary, as both age 17 and 19 were reasonable alternatives.
1937/1938, Albert Einstein, letter to Max Born The Russian trials were Stalin's purges, with which he attempted to consolidate his power. Like most people in the West, I believed these show trials to be the arbitrary acts of a cruel dictator.
The bromide conforms to everything sanctioned by the majority, and may be depended upon to be trite, banal, and arbitrary.
The equation is true for an arbitrary value of x.
And in this long chain of consistence, a chain stretching from the long dead to the far unborn, the notion of the arbitrary could only survive as the notion of a pre-established arbitrary.
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