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arbitrarily

adverb as in summarily

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France has accused Iran of holding Kohler and Paris arbitrarily and keeping them in conditions akin to torture.

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“These regulations allow the insurance commissioner to arbitrarily deny compensation if he doesn’t agree with the positions taken by consumer advocates,” he said.

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Conaie, the country's largest indigenous organisation which led a national strike, said "five of us have been arbitrarily detained".

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"I urge the security forces to desist from the use of unnecessary and disproportionate force and to immediately release all arbitrarily detained protesters," Türk said in a statement on Monday.

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This, it said, allowed "countless" government officers, including "tens of thousands of local police officers", to "unilaterally and arbitrarily" issue orders for content removal.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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