Any arbitrary system of food laws could make the Jewish people different.

She is fascinated by structure, color charts and arbitrary systems.

His arbitrary systems are no different from the way voters make judgments, however they arrive at them.

A consulting group hired by the commission found an almost arbitrary system in these courts, whose judges often have little or no legal training.

He considers an arbitrary system with time invariant properties.

File system access is limited and arbitrary system commands are prevented from execution.

In fact, Medicare is an arbitrary system that is as restrictive as managed care.

Underlying Richman's creation is a somewhat arbitrary system.

Draco sought to replace a relatively arbitrary system of oral law that had been maintained by the nobility.

Ascribed status is an arbitrary system of classifying individuals that is not fixed in the way that most people think.

"When you have educated people, it is more and more difficult to impose an arbitrary system," Mr. Jennar said.

Furthermore, he suggested that kinship systems "exist only in human consciousness; it is an arbitrary system of representations, not the spontaneous development of a real situation."

France the decided to create another form of government reformed in an attempt to protect the state creating a more arbitrary system as well as dictatorial (188).

"Well," said DeWitt, "the Ur-men used an arbitrary system as a point of reference in computing time on these voyages.

Our immigration policy should be based primarily on our national needs, security and economics and not in part on an arbitrary system, lacking even minimal checks."

However, the point to point communication model was limited, as it did not allow for direct communication between any two arbitrary systems; a physical link was necessary.

So the death penalty is a racist and arbitrary system of punishment that is no deterrent to crime and may lead to the execution of innocent people.

On the other hand, the clock is a product of our time, and it seems appropriate to pay some homage to our current arbitrary systems of time measurement.

In the case of buildings, an arbitrary system of grids is often established so as to correspond to the rows of columns and the major load-bearing walls of the building.

It is not surprising to learn that Hollywood's more arbitrary systems are totally alien to her: for example, the dance of an agent soliciting scripts that his celebrity client will never get around to reading.

The robot, obedient machine that it was, refrained from making sarcastic comments about this inexact and arbitrary system that we have compelled all other races to adopt, at least in their dealings with us.

Related to the minimality principle, and equally important for microkernel design, is the separation of mechanism and policy, it is what enables the construction of arbitrary systems on top of a minimal kernel.

Because as China grows more prosperous, its people will inevitably demand a more participatory government, and to reach the next stage of economic development Chinese businesses will require a less arbitrary system, with real rule of law.

Early in the reign of Henry VII he became associated with Edmund Dudley in carrying out the king's rigorous and arbitrary system of taxation, and in consequence he became very unpopular.

The whole arbitrary system itself, which was a temporary measure of protection for tenants in a period of acute post-war scarcity, should be dispensed with as soon as the output of the house-building industry has regained a satisfactory level.