There is difficulty because we have not selected an arbitrary unit of work.

These services, therefore, being almost entirely arbitrary, subjected the tenant to many vexations.

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.

The tax which each individual is bound to pay, ought to be certain and not arbitrary.

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.

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.

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.

The latter is either altogether arbitrary, or 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.

This fine, which was at first arbitrary, came, in many countries, to be regulated at a certain portion of the price of the land.

They are in no respect arbitrary, but are, or may be, in all cases, perfectly clear and certain.

They give occasion, it is pretended, to much extortion in the officers of the farmers-general who collect the tax, which is in a great measure arbitrary and uncertain.

His assessment, therefore, must, in most cases, depend upon the good or bad humour of his assessors, and must, therefore, be altogether arbitrary and uncertain.

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.

This classification is not arbitrary like the grouping of the stars in constellations.

Several of the best botanists, such as Mr. Bentham and others, have strongly insisted on their arbitrary value.

Arbitrary law had not yet established itself in the mind of the judge, for then there was no cause to judge and no one to be judged.

It must invent or imagine some event, which it ascribes to the object as its effect; and it is plain that this invention must be entirely arbitrary.

It could not, therefore, be discovered in the cause, and the first invention or conception of it, _a priori_, must be entirely arbitrary.

On the sidewalk they must behave so as not to cause danger to pedestrians (which is an arbitrary judgment that seems to translate into traveling at walking pace).

Computers can process data much more quickly than humans, but lack the ability to respond meaningfully to arbitrary stimuli.

Yet, although autocratic, the very existence of the complex bureaucratic machinery consistituted a check on his arbitrary exercise of power.

To generate the Dowker notation, traverse the knot using an arbitrary starting point and direction.

This finding rendered the church’s decision arbitrary and invalid.

The first player makes an arbitrary move to begin with.

He or she can do this as long as the strategy doesn't call for placing a stone on the 'arbitrary' square that is already occupied.

If this happens, though, he or she can again play an arbitrary move and continue as before with the second player's winning strategy.

The limit of 150°C is an arbitrary choice.

Otherwise there is a generic chunk (0x0102) to accommodate any arbitrary sequence of bits.

Isochrone maps can be generated using the Google Maps API and this can be done from arbitrary starting points.

However, this approach is rather arbitrary as it is more an assumption of political as opposed to cultural and linguistic developments.

It is an arbitrary categorization scheme, and is not associated with phylogenetics-based taxonomy.

The structure of this site is incredibly arbitrary and unpredictable.

But, in spite of his confinement, he contrived to publish a narrative of his arrest, entitled "A Defiance against all Arbitrary Usurpations", and a still more violent attack on the peers, called "An Arrow shot from the Prison of Newgate into the Prerogative Bowels of the Arbitrary House of Lords".

In their childhood Nina and Juanita suffered from their father’s arbitrary nature.

(""Significant"" is somewhat arbitrary and may be subject to the bias of a particular inspector.)

The general definition makes sense for arbitrary coverings and does not require a topology.

Also considered arbitrary and imprecise, Freud dismissed the decoding method as well.

The lack of regulations that defined how such should be assessed allowed for arbitrary assessments and financial persecution.

However, the urban planning was sometimes arbitrary and followed by dysfunctions.

The above example could be used in an arbitrary method like this: Python.

But the categories are artificial and often arbitrary.

Severe and arbitrary beating occurred daily.

Thus the royal prerogative is in theory an unlimited, arbitrary authority.

Let formula_128 and formula_153 be arbitrary functions.

Campbell implied that McGurk's had been an arbitrary target.

The external field replaces the interaction of all the other particles to an arbitrary particle.

The petitioners argued that the distinction between the two drugs was arbitrary, and that cannabis should be rescheduled as well.

Zaslaw deems some of the divisions "arbitrary", and calls for "clearer, more honest categories" for the problematic works.

Anonymous visitors can insert any arbitrary name into the "username" field.

The persecution included beatings, arbitrary arrests and war rape.