Sentences with arbitrary
ar·bi·trar·y
A a - Arbitrary arrests and detention without trial were common.
- An arbitrary constant
- Thus, while it maintains its parliamentary majority, the Commonwealth can legislate in arbitrary and coercive ways.
- They have a better sense of the arbitrary nature of words.
- arbitrary decision, arbitrary judgment
- Young children and their arbitrary rules for games
- The federal minister should not bully us into a system focused on meeting arbitrary targets, says Christopher Bantick.
- A mannered reduction necessarily occurs; the slabs of paint acquire an arbitrary relationship to the forms that they describe.
- An arbitrary decision.
- An arbitrary government.
- An arbitrary demand for payment.
- An arbitrary constant.
- Benjamin Franklin's designation of "positive" and "negative" to different charges was arbitrary. In fact, electrons flow in the opposite direction to conventional current. The decision to use 18 years as the legal age of adulthood was arbitrary, as both age 17 and 19 were reasonable alternatives.
- "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. " (Max Born, Letters to Einstein)
- The equation is true for an arbitrary value of x.