arbitrary
ਇਖਤਿਆਰੀ
definition
adjective
his mealtimes were entirely arbitrary
based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system.
example
These kings have not unlimited or 'arbitrary' power, and the generals do more by example than by authority.
So, here I would only talk about a few rather 'arbitrary' points that have occupied my mind in the recent days and leave the rest to other people to explore.
The use of the severity and rarity criteria has meant that 'arbitrary' and unjust decisions have been applied to many claims.
He was an eloquent opponent of the exercise of 'arbitrary' power by governments the world over.
In the fourteenth century, two parallel movements were under way to enforce Magna Carta's curbs on 'arbitrary' royal authority.
The following films deal with rebellion against 'arbitrary' or repressive authority.
It also meant freedom from 'arbitrary' power, which by 1792 was being routinely identified as the power of any king.
The question seemed rather 'arbitrary' with no rhyme or reason whatsoever.
How you can tell whether a binary number of 'arbitrary' size is divisible by 10 without looking at the whole number?
Why couldn't people see that tradition, while rather 'arbitrary' , was the only fair way to do things?
They become a matter of subjective and 'arbitrary' whim if they are cut off from collective deliberations.
Yes, this requires work - but that is what makes it a justice system rather than one of 'arbitrary' punishment.
By the time of the Revolution, the standing army had become a symbol of repressive authority and 'arbitrary' rule.
In contemporary frameworks, the rule of generalization invokes a singular term, the 'arbitrary' constant introduced into the text.
His either/or choice was 'arbitrary' and unnecessary, and he hurt his organization as a result.
So too, one might think that an organized police force poses less of a threat of 'arbitrary' power than a volunteer force.
They have, I believe, lost their way and taken a path that can only lead back to the supremacy of 'arbitrary' power.
To each triangle, there exists a similar triangle of 'arbitrary' magnitude.
Police officers cannot take 'arbitrary' measures based on suspicion.
It has been said more than once that 10 seems a rather 'arbitrary' number, and it has not been clear how the authors of the law arrived at it.
If not, what is to prevent the exercise of excessive or 'arbitrary' power?
Capricious and 'arbitrary' as the system might be, it serves several contradictory needs at once.
Curbs were placed on the 'arbitrary' exercise of power and steps were taken to give some measure of regularity to the legal system.
For tabular presentation we used 'arbitrary' cut off values.
The very idea of the rule of law is partly derived from the conclusion that it is reasonable and morally good to limit 'arbitrary' power.
The numbering of years is a cultural artifact based on some rather 'arbitrary' decisions made along the way.
That was the system - 'arbitrary' , incomprehensible, illogical - and fairness had nothing to do with it.
This system was so 'arbitrary' and irrational that it resulted in large numbers of poor persons being excluded.
Freedom from 'arbitrary' power is a great good - but so is the avoidance of anarchy.
To put those forms of authority on the same register as the state and-worse-subject them all to the 'arbitrary' power of the state is not helpful.
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