adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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apparently
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To do this he did not need to make any apparently arbitrary appeal to particular revelation or received authority.
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Why not something else equally apparently arbitrary , such as blowing bubbles, or dropping pebbles?
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The links between sound, language and meaning can be complex and sometimes apparently arbitrary .
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Many of the new rules seem as arbitrary as the old familiar ones.
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Legislative response to that conviction can not be regarded as arbitrary or capricious and that is all we have to decide.
entirely
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He lived so much within his own head that the times at which he ate and slept were entirely arbitrary .
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Objects, however, by virtue of their concrete nature, can never possess that entirely arbitrary and abstract capability.
quite
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But this reduces the distinction between the national and the comprador bourgeoisie to a quite arbitrary judgement on what constitutes national development.
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Catholicism, however gripped the masses by virtue of its incense, its ritual, all quite arbitrary , compulsion without purpose.
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Sometimes an action or object has a meaning in this dimension that is quite arbitrary .
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The decision as to what to accept as a distinct class is quite arbitrary .
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Not having any for fifteen years means I find them quite arbitrary now, impossible to control.
somewhat
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The amount by which one changes weights is somewhat arbitrary .
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Any judicial act of line-drawing may seem somewhat arbitrary , but Roe was a reasoned statement, elaborated with great care.
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This is of course a somewhat arbitrary limitation from a fire protection point of view.
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Essentiality is a somewhat arbitrary and relative term when it comes to the food value of treats.
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The diversity of services outlined in Figure 8.4 makes any classification somewhat arbitrary .
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The inputs employed for simulation are somewhat arbitrary , but they reflect underlying realities.
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Some of the ill feeling dates back to the somewhat arbitrary way Edison was first given the charter.
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It is however clear that whatever percentage holding is regarded as indicating minority control, the figure selected will be somewhat arbitrary .
■ NOUN
arrest
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Non-violent protests outside the jails and the Ministry of the Interior are met with arbitrary arrest .
decision
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He infuriated his allies with his arbitrary decisions and devious ways.
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They want continuity of policy, not capricious or arbitrary decisions .
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No element in glass to rest on my own arbitrary decision alone, he wrote.
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Case law has shown that court rulings on these kind of scenarios have resulted in arbitrary decisions .
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This effectively enables the Home Office to make arbitrary decisions , deporting people as they see fit, without any independent inquiry.
power
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In the absence of any clear division between administrative and judicial functions, even the humblest official enjoyed arbitrary power .
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Constitutionalism, therefore, is to be set in contradistinction to arbitrary power .
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The Whigs were concerned that the arbitrary power of a prince was being replaced by the arbitrary power of the legislature.
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Others, including Stead, attacked the bill for increasing the arbitrary power of the police on the streets.
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As a means of assuring us that the management of large public companies do not wield arbitrary power it is unsatisfactory.
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Equally, there is an insistence on the need to protect people from the arbitrary power of the state.
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Parliament could if it so wishes confer arbitrary powers upon government.
rule
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The arbitrary rule restricting profit to a 10% margin applying to service companies would not operate.
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Safety is a matter of active attention and alert work practices, not blind obedience to arbitrary rules .
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It is so much easier to conform to arbitrary rules imposed by some one else on the basis of age.
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The arbitrary rules grated on Wirk, but it was the no-smoking requirement that eventually precipitated her departure from the fellowship.
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Torturers kept making up new arbitrary rules , for which they would punish disobedience.
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I remember, during arguments with my father, there seemed to be arbitrary rules , which I never understood.
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Before, it had justified their arbitrary rule .
way
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Instead, the probabilities would have to be assigned in some arbitrary way .
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But rain has fallen here, too, in that arbitrary way which makes life so unpredictable.
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Some of the ill feeling dates back to the somewhat arbitrary way Edison was first given the charter.
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Prisoner after prisoner has complained about the arbitrary way in which the prison regulations are enforced.
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Swallowtails, woodpeckers and many other creatures all show how Nature can change in an arbitrary way .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The fans complained about the apparently arbitrary distribution of tickets for the next game.
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The government has carried out numerous executions and arbitrary arrests.
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The way the programme of events is organized seems completely arbitrary to me.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But these images were not arbitrary , let alone trivial.
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Casinos sound such arbitrary and decadent places; nobody would want their economy's fate to be determined in one.
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In the absence of any clear division between administrative and judicial functions, even the humblest official enjoyed arbitrary power.
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Throughout the day, repeal supporters argued that the ban on some types of weapons is arbitrary and unconstitutional.
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We had to tell the truth, and we were then judged by mysterious, arbitrary standards.
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You see that the ornaments we are discussing are nothing if not arbitrary .