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1. It could be adjusted to carry something of arbitrary shape
2. Cody: Why did Douglas Adams choose the number ‘ 42’ to answer the ‘ ultimate question’? It means many different things depending on what context you’re using; for example from the actual story’s perspective, it’s an appropriated warning sent by some unknown alien force, symbolically it’s about cosmic connections, from a philosophical perspective it’s about how easy it is to apply meaning to arbitrary phrases and verses, from a thematic perspective it’s a red herring, because it seems like it has a religious meaning but is actually entirely secular
3. “Discovery of the implicit” or metaphorical manipulation Is more of an isolating and adding connections that seem More arbitrary than pre-destined; yet, interests often fall Into place with amazing, unthought of implications—
4. being almost entirely arbitrary, subjected the tenant to many vexations
5. The public services to which the yeomanry were bound, were not less arbitrary than the private ones
6. Even the violent and arbitrary
7. This superiority of conduct is suitable both to the character of the French nation, and to what forms the character of every nation, the nature of their government, which, though arbitrary and violent in comparison with that of Great Britain, is legal and free in comparison with those of Spain and Portugal
8. The law, so far as it gives some weak protection to the slave against the violence of his master, is likely to be better executed in a colony where the government is in a great measure arbitrary, than in one where it is altogether free
9. But in a country where the government is in a great measure arbitrary, where it is usual for the magistrate to intermeddle even in the management of the private property of individuals, and to send them, perhaps, a lettre de cachet, if they do not manage it according to his liking, it is much easier for him to give some protection to the slave; and common humanity naturally disposes him to do so
10. That the condition of a slave is better under an arbitrary than under a free government, is, I believe, supported by the history of all ages and nations
11. This prohibition, joined to the restraints imposed by the ancient provincial laws of France upon the transportation of corn from one province to another, and to the arbitrary and degading taxes which are levied upon the cultivators in almost all the provinces, discouraged and kept down the agriculture of that country very much below the state to which it would naturally have risen in so very fertile a soil, and so very happy a climate
12. During the continuance of this state of things, therefore, the corruption of justice, naturally resulting from the arbitrary and uncertain nature of those presents, scarce admitted of any effectual remedy
13. In its nature, it is arbitrary and
14. Whoever has attended for any considerable time to the administration of a French university, must have had occasion to remark the effects which naturally result from an arbitrary and extraneous jurisdiction of this kind
15. The tax which each individual is bound to pay, ought to be certain and not arbitrary
16. The application is pretty much regulated according to the discretion of the intendant of the generality, and must, therefore, be in a great measure arbitrary
17. The nations, accordingly, who have attempted to tax the revenue arising from stock, instead of any severe inquisition of this kind, have been obliged to content themselves with some very loose, and, therefore, more or less arbitrary estimation
18. The real taille, as it is imposed only upon a part of the lands of the country, is necessarily an unequal, but it is not always an arbitrary tax, though it is so upon some occasions
19. The personal taille, as it is intended to be proportioned to the profits of a certain class of people, which can only be guessed at, is necessarily both arbitrary and unequal
20. The latter is either altogether arbitrary, or
21. altogether unequal, and, in most cases, is both the one and the other; the former, though in some respects unequal, different slaves being of different values, is in no respect arbitrary
22. This fine, which was at first arbitrary, came, in many countries, to be regulated at a certain portion of the price of the land
23. They are in no respect arbitrary, but are, or may be, in all cases, perfectly clear and certain
24. In France, the great easily submit to a considerable degree of inequality in a tax which, so far as it affects them, is not a very heavy one; but could not brook the arbitrary assessment of an intendant
25. And further, here is what Madison"s Supreme Court appointee, Justice Joseph Story, wrote in his 1833 „Commentaries on the Constitution:" „The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them
26. Provided ample opportunities to self-destruct, that child soon acquires disagreeable habits that, reinforced by common attitudes, establishes the rocky foundations of a society populated by lingering, single-minded adolescents who, guided by their own (―exceptional‖) rules of conduct, acquire self-centered and perhaps anti-social points of view devolving into a collection of interchangeable parts reflecting the questionable character of that society‘s lowest forms that must negatively impact its social, cultural and political institutions including schools, churches, political organizations, judicial system, the news media, corporations, all! A free and open society should never impose arbitrary limits or draw uncertain conclusions as to how an individual should (otherwise) think or act however eccentric or unconventional such attitudes may appear; although that society, by example, should seek to broaden exemplary manners and customs essential to the maintenance of proper form if that society hopes to function effectively
27. ‖ What law protects their Rights? Or laws conferring arbitrary advantages and special privileges to certain individuals or favored (―political‖) groups at the expense of others? I am not at all certain that this is what the founding fathers had in mind when this document was initially conceived
28. It was not intended to promote arbitrary designs by prejudicial jurists with political axes to grind
29. Garcia withdrew his forces and marched against Holguin, and the bitterness among the people in the city was increased by the arbitrary orders of Shafter, and the conduct of the rough element of one or two regiments
30. fundamental to Christian Theology; otherwise, we would all be left with an uncertain notion that everything that is good, decent and worth pursuing is the arbitrary by-product of good intentions rooted in customs and manners rather than inspired by the Word of God
31. This system of rewards and punishment should not be arbitrary but applied in a consistent manner, rather, on the basis of acceptable standards of behavior
32. A moral relativist, on the other hand, is likely to embrace a broader set of (moral/ethical) assumptions whose arbitrary premises are less in keeping with absolute ideas that otherwise require critical thinking
33. ) Adopting conspicuously faulty and (otherwise) self-serving reasoning conveniently side-steps a very important fact; that we all exist in a less than perfect world subject to changing fortunes and other unexpected events that routinely challenge our mettle; and that Nature, however, has its own inestimable manner of compensating each of us with an innate capacity to endure hardships and rise above our present condition however unfavorable or improbable our prospects for a ―better‖ life may appear and that an individual‘s threshold for suffering and privation oftentimes vary in proportion to that individual‘s (mental) endurance and acquired habits in spite of that individual‘s accustomed environment and in any event, such (gratuitous) impressions are problematical at best and should not serve as a litmus test in determining who should or should not be permitted to live or given an equal opportunity to exercise free choice(s) pre-empted by selfish motives indifferent to such rights; motives whose arbitrary designs are (otherwise) impervious to the apparent limits or consequences of questionable solutions whose (hardened) indifference to Life must inevitably diminish the (inherent) value a society confers upon its citizens regardless of their station in life
34. where arbitrary corruption attends to its self-inflicted wounds, a tragic reminder of our (political) leaders who have lost their moral compass…
35. A criminal act, whether committed by an individual against another individual or against a group of individuals, notwithstanding that such actions may be either random or pre-meditated, constitutes a crime against society inasmuch as every member of that society is considered a (potential) victim that should otherwise be provided equal protection under the law and that any crime, whatever the motive, directed against (the) one represents a (potential) affront against (the) many; especially when such crimes are committed indiscriminately, without rhyme or reason; that is to say, in a manner that renders every member of that society a (potential) victim subject to arbitrary or uncertain (criminal) designs
36. This procedure must remain wary, however, of arbitrary or capricious designs whenever, for example, civilian populations are (unintentionally) killed or property destroyed (collateral damage) that oftentimes occurs during times of war yet are properly understood (or should be) as contingencies of war whose (untimely) deaths or destruction otherwise fail to meet the standards of (purposeful) criminal intent
37. Whether the (Holy) Scriptures should remain subject to generational contentions or modern interpretations, much in the manner that Constitutional Law is persuaded by the (legal) authority of evolving standards of decency, such arguments that otherwise provide recourse to alternative viewpoints, must be equally troubling as arbitrary viewpoints relating to Papal Infallibility or the Divine Rights of Kings!
38. Instead each (victim) was/is subject to arbitrary legal standards and other (social) expedients that effectively bar recourse to Justice
39. It fails to acknowledge sin as such; although it is willing to entertain forms of appropriate/inappropriate behavior defined by popular customs or manners that (in any event) oftentimes lose their social mandate as arbitrary conventions may vary
40. The mission of the United States is one of BENEVOLENT ASSIMILATION substituting the mild sway of justice and right for arbitrary rule
41. As far as I’m concerned, they’re all a gutless bunch of piss-ants, with way too much arbitrary power
42. The poor man had been turned down for a disability pension six times, and yet the guy had lost about the last hundred jobs he had, due to the mean and arbitrary nature of back trouble
43. The pension application process turned out to be kind of mean and arbitrary as well, with every government employee, charged with the responsibility of administering those pensions, taking great delight in conspiring to deny those benefits to anyone that actually needed them
44. (The problem is the use of unreal and arbitrary assumptions) (See #1 at end
45. This removes the notion of arbitrary results of capricious and totally unpredictable fate – or of living in a Kafkaesque world where life occurrences and situations are totally bewildering, bizarre, or illogical
46. But it is a little less arbitrary under him
47. somewhat arbitrary, but it is the order shown in all the best commentaries on the Bible
48. Nominal: Categorical data where the order of the categories are arbitrary ex: development type, defect type
49. The weight clouds are given as to their heating or cooling effect in any computer model is therefore an arbitrary determination
50. Jefferson and Lincoln warned of the danger posed by an irresponsible Supreme Court more interested in inventing and imposing its own arbitrary sense of “justice” than in enforcing the rule of law legitimately enacted
