Can I fence off an arbitrarily large area of unowned land and claim it as new property? |
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The grinning jackanapes who has so arbitrarily dismantled the constitution is now half mad with power. |
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But can an Assembly be dissolved arbitrarily, capriciously, whimsically, at the absolute discretion of a Chief Minister? |
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If the host doesn't like the competitor or ratings slump the timer will be arbitrarily accelerated. |
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Hipparchus was critical of the grid defined by Eratosthenes, saying reasonably enough that it was chosen arbitrarily. |
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In order to find out, he stuck 18 volunteers in a mock prison, arbitrarily making them either lags or screws. |
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He gives us few tempo indications, but gives us repeats that we can arbitrarily take or not. |
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The resulting model should be applicable to other anisotropic systems as well as arbitrarily shaped microchannels. |
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This isn't a rhetorical question but one that, again, would help show whether they're applying this rule fairly or arbitrarily. |
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He later practiced decalcomania, a process that involves rubbing paint arbitrarily between two sheets of paper. |
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The problem was to create a storyline that would make each arbitrarily chosen episode compatible with the others. |
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The main index of proper names also shifts arbitrarily from English into French. |
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Because of the small populations of these communities, villages are arbitrarily coded to protect their identity. |
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Elements of the exhibition have been arranged fairly arbitrarily on a table. |
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Socialist realism was sometimes wielded arbitrarily as a tool of discipline by the party. |
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For sensitivity analysis, we arbitrarily doubled the coefficient of fertilizer in the variance function. |
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It is an unpardonable negligence to place the ornaments arbitrarily how they wish. |
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Regulations issued by the Imperial Army spelled out procedures intended to ensure that prisoners weren't punished arbitrarily. |
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There was no evidence that the police acted in bad faith or arbitrarily when issuing those orders. |
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He was arbitrarily arrested by local police allegedly without a warrant and in violation of his rights. |
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The rules of due process were designed to ensure that the government cannot arbitrarily imprison innocent people. |
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As all units of measure are determined arbitrarily in the first place, though not fixed by law, obviously they can be altered by law. |
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The shots of this film are arbitrarily put together with no rhyme or reason, creating haphazard action that is barely cogent. |
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Does he really believe in, and worship, a God who arbitrarily decides to kill people just to show them who's boss? |
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The English regions are, by comparison, ahistorical, nebulously conceived, arbitrarily imposed. |
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They admit variation as a vera causa in one case, they arbitrarily reject it in another, without assigning any distinction in the two cases. |
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Whoever perpetrated these acts has to be prepared to pay for the lives they have so arbitrarily taken. |
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They have the desire to carve a tribal land from out of the three countries created somewhat arbitrarily by the colonialists. |
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His immediate superior divided his time between hitting on female staff and incompetently and arbitrarily changing working arrangements. |
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It follows from the property of density that on arbitrarily small stretches of a line, infinitely many points must lie. |
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From the cowfish we see that fish are named arbitrarily, and it's up to them thereafter. |
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The suggestion that people are arbitrarily reliving the past and exploiting it under the pretense of creating art strikes her as an affront. |
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No longer must we rely on our clumsy thumbs to arbitrarily slam derailleurs into the proper speed. |
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Individuals, when recognised as travellers, are sometimes arbitrarily refused entry or access to public places and services. |
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You are allowing the Executive to lock people up arbitrarily, perhaps for life, without due process. |
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Using the technology of bobbling, he can put his characters arbitrarily far into the future. |
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The technique adopted in this volume is to bundle a series of essays arbitrarily culled from various publications with an explanatory introduction by the volume editor. |
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It is not the full shilling and some people are arbitrarily excluded. |
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This standard was adopted internationally in 1961, replacing an arbitrarily assigned value of 16.000 amu for the atomic mass of an atom of oxygen. |
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They resolved that the king's bench had acted arbitrarily and illegally. |
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It is one of the most commonly collected artefacts, where its market worth is arbitrarily unhinged from its clearly marked original face value, in the philatelist's eye. |
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With Davenport he showed that any real indefinite diagonal quadratic form, in 5 or more variables, takes arbitrarily small values for nonzero integral arguments. |
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Who wants to leave their cash in an institution that unilaterally and arbitrarily reduces its deposit insurance commitment? |
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Ernst also later practised decalcomania, a process developed by Oscar Dominguez around 1936, which involved rubbing paint arbitrarily between two sheets of paper. |
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Such activity is closer to tax avoision, where avoidance shades into evasion, than are the government-sponsored schemes which are now to be arbitrarily chopped back. |
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Yet the current debate is arbitrarily restricted to the chief public component of the American retirement system, Social Security. |
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This allows carriers to map packet data into arbitrarily sized TDM pipes-for example, taking bursty Ethernet traffic and mapping it into a fixed bandwidth channel. |
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Indian fashion is at a different stage of development and just arbitrarily dumping foreign trends into clothes stores strangulates Indian tastes and style. |
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If the IRS can target and discriminate against one group of Americans, it can arbitrarily do it to anyone. |
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It states that no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life. |
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The institution has been and continues to be rife with examples of imperious pastors operating on whim and arbitrarily overriding consensual decisions. |
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In particular, no one may be arbitrarily arrested and detained. |
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It was argued that the courts arbitrarily rejected their compensation claim by applying a stricter standard of proof than to past compensation claims. |
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In reality, the Iraqi borders had been arbitrarily drawn and disregarded 2,000 years of tribal, sectarian, and nomadic occupation. |
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Yet the government, having arbitrarily detained him for two years, is coercing him into giving up his citizenship by the threat of further arbitrary detention. |
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Sometimes I think he arbitrarily disagrees with me just to be contrary. |
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If they do overlap, they will not know which one to choose and so will arbitrarily select one or the other or alternatively may tick both answers. |
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By this, of course I do not mean bimetallism, with its arbitrarily fixed exchange rate between gold and silver, but freely fluctuating exchange rates between the two moneys. |
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The democratic processes have been arbitrarily thrown out the window by their government, who was quick to join an alliance to militarily subdue the aggressors. |
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By charging a resort fee, a hotel is able to advertise an arbitrarily lower nightly rate. |
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They may blind us and arbitrarily, dogmatically, or unphilosophically confine our thinking. |
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He violates the most fundamental rules of democracy, acting arbitrarily and unreliably. |
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Nine Lebanese deportees interviewed in Beirut by HRW said they were arbitrarily expelled, without explanation or any opportunity for redress. |
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What limits this approach in the real world is that, while time is arbitrarily divisible, current is not. |
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They've arrogated to themselves the power to change the rules arbitrarily. |
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I talk more about expandos in Chapter 10. This means that you can arbitrarily add new properties to an object whenever you want. |
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Terentilius Arsa, proposed that the law should be written, in order to prevent magistrates from applying the law arbitrarily. |
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He made concessions in Guyenne, but reserved the right to reclaim territories arbitrarily confiscated. |
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This is, however, absurd, since its shore might arbitrarily be increased and in any case varies with the tide. |
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Many scholars have found it odd that Shakespeare would, seemingly arbitrarily, use this rhetorical form throughout the play. |
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During the Early Modern era, European monarchs would often default on their loans or arbitrarily refuse to pay them back. |
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Having composed a portion of music, Birtwistle would then cut it arbitrarily into a number of sections, which he then rearranged randomly. |
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Bolshevik revolutionary Leon Trotsky argued that money could not be arbitrarily abolished following a socialist revolution. |
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The term variety, again, in comparison with mere individual differences, is also applied arbitrarily, and for convenience sake. |
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For a snow avalanche, this energy comes as a disturbance from outside the system, although such disturbances can be arbitrarily small. |
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Like German, Dutch allows arbitrarily long compounds, but the longer they get, the less frequent they tend to be. |
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The international army boundary arbitrarily divided the British and American battlefields just beyond Argentan, on the Falaise side of it. |
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The trough is arbitrarily divided into lower, middle and upper regions, and the upper region is further divided into the Gongola and Yola arms. |
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In pocket milling the material inside an arbitrarily closed boundary on a flat surface of a work piece is removed to a fixed depth. |
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The employers arbitrarily fined men for minor reasons, disallowed wages on false pretexts and victimised perceived radicals. |
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The critics, however, sunder out one of the number and arbitrarily assign it to a different document from the rest. |
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That does not mean, however, that as an abutter the Forest Society gets to arbitrarily veto the use of the public road by those they don't approve of. |
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First, procedural participation by people affected by a decision promotes the rule of law by making it more difficult for the public authority to act arbitrarily. |
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The final association layer, perhaps more arbitrarily defined than the familial groupings, is called the community, and is defined as a set of clans that regularly commingle. |
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In fact, Popper says at the beginning of Logic of Scientific Discovery that it is not his aim to define science, and that science can in fact be defined quite arbitrarily. |
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With 8 of the 16 exits arbitrarily blocked, 853 mixed passengers and 20 crew exited the darkened aircraft in 78 seconds, less than the 90 seconds required for certification. |
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As on the Earth, prime meridians must be arbitrarily defined. |
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However, in most cases the sacred epigrams are arbitrarily, and sometimes joltingly, juxtaposed to typical secular epigrams on sexual matters and personal caricatures. |
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Depending on the sequence, the rotor may turn forwards or backwards, and it may change direction, stop, speed up or slow down arbitrarily at any time. |
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The pericarp may be arbitrarily divided into layers, referred to as epicarp, mesocarp, and endocarp, or may involve ontogenetic study of the fruit wall. |
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The term went viral this week after a series of vicious attacks on motorists who moved traffic cones that anti-government protesters had arbitrarily placed near rally sites. |
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