arbitrary standard

Example Sentences

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Coe pushed back on a suggestion that 0.1 is an arbitrary standard but said of the competition committee: “I think they will look at that.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2022

It was as if the landscape itself had dysmorphia, altering its physical appearance to fit an arbitrary standard that undermined its primary function.

From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2020

Fashion in this context was not about looking au courant or attractive by some arbitrary standard.

From Washington Post • Jan. 3, 2019

A day, therefore, is not and cannot be some arbitrary standard.

From Slate • Jun. 10, 2015

Thus they established an arbitrary standard for that dignity which Parliament had defined and limited to a legal standard.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund