arbitrarily

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He also found that while the city was following a law against criminalizing public camping, it arbitrarily enforced others despite health and safety risks.

From Seattle Times

Taiwan’s government recently announced that its citizens have been arbitrarily detained under the new counterespionage law, and that Taipei would respond to such “hostile acts.”

From Washington Times

In a separate 177-page filing denying the SEC's substantive claims, Coinbase said it "welcomes regulation," but that the regulator was arbitrarily and without Congress' permission trying to fill the "regulatory gap" over crypto assets.

From Reuters

Tuesday's 36-page U.N. report, based on 70 visits to detention centres and more than 1,000 interviews, also said that Ukraine had violated international law by arbitrarily detaining civilians, but on a considerably smaller scale.

From Reuters

The global body interviewed hundreds of victims and witnesses for a report detailing more than 900 cases of civilians, including children and elderly people, being arbitrarily detained in the conflict, most of them by Russia.

From Seattle Times