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Перевод: arbitrary

[прилагательное]
произвольный; своевольный; случайный; капризный; деспотический

Тезаурус:

1. A "standard adequate for wellbeing" is potentially unrestricted - "the sky's the limit" - and therefore the actual limit imposed and the performance exacted are necessarily arbitrary, the decisions of brute force.
2. Ruskin's espousal of a craftsmanly aesthetics, Robinson points out, is grounded in Christian convictions about the humility proper to a fallen creature: lacking such grounds, Pound's holding to the craftsmanly not only seems arbitrary and unargued, it is as often presumptuous as humble.
3. Some libertarians (though not perhaps Mill himself) hoped that such freedom would have consequent advantages: that it would provide a safety valve for dissent, encourage full expression of both majority and minority opinions, allow truth to drive out error, and provide some check on arbitrary misrule.
4. I think the first LP was a bit one-dimensional, like an arbitrary collection of jangly pop songs.
5. But they are not renowned for their adventurousness and the final product has an arbitrary dullness about it that suggests the product of a predictable corporate culture.
6. (The choice of clockwise for + is arbitrary and probably due to thinking of the turn R as clockwise.)
7. In France, the bloody religious wars of the sixteenth century were fought partly against the arbitrary exercise of the royal prerogative.
8. However, even if such a classification is natural, it has arbitrary features.
9. It can be quite painful, for the insider is studying his own social navel, with the potential always present that he will recognize this to be only one of a number of arbitrary possibilities and perhaps also find that many practices are built on the flimsiest of moral precepts.
10. It added: "Long range drift from chimney emissions is being studied in order to avoid arbitrary restrictions on atmospheric discharges
11. It will fill an important gap in the framework of protection established by the Commission's existing "theme mechanisms" on "disappearances", torture and summary or arbitrary executions.
12. This arbitrary distinction helps us to focus attention on the importance in such documents of the contemporary recording of events.
13. In other words, it is not arbitrary that the wolf and dog are closer to one another than either is to the cat, but it is to some extent arbitrary whether one recognizes some given degree of similarity by placing two species in the same genus, or in the same family.