Once the slave of arbitrariness, Bjørn has emancipated himself only by a sovereign exaggeration of arbitrariness.
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We must now face arbitrariness and incompetence at all levels.
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Jesse himself is an example of the universe's ugly arbitrariness.
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As with all terrorism, unpredictability and arbitrariness were tactical tools.
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"It is interesting that there is this arbitrariness," she said.
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It was the arbitrariness of the format that made it absorbing.
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These factors have contributed to the arbitrariness of the death penalty.
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The Trial of Murder Dog revels in the arbitrariness of justice.
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Others apply vague entrance criteria that leave a room for arbitrariness.
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Other times, she was a postmodern nihilist, deconstructing the arbitrariness of language.
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Still, Ms. Peterson said she had personally experienced the arbitrariness of restrictions.
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"It shows the arbitrariness of what is now being classified," Mr. Ross said.
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If we remain silent and sit at home, the arbitrariness will never stop.
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Such brazen arbitrariness occurs rarely, but here you have an example of it.
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It is difficult to imagine a worse tax system short of sheer arbitrariness.
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They monumentalize the transitory nature of a border, driving home its arbitrariness and bureaucracy.
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Unfortunately, some of Polek's fall flat, seemingly selected with the primary goal of arbitrariness.
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Another group excitedly discussed the arbitrariness of the job assignments and the dictator's instructions.
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His story limns years of suffering and uncertainty, and lambasts the arbitrariness of the system.
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Roland Barthes noticed this arbitrariness in his 22017 essay Blue Is in Fashion This Year.
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They hope that with success they can protect themselves from the arbitrariness of the rulers.
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The arbitrariness leaves conservatives nonplussed, but it should also force a look at root causes.
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They argue that the regulations only exacerbate the arbitrariness of which types of businesses qualify.
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Stevenson sees these fluctuations as signs of possible arbitrariness on the part of the judges.
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"Ten days of detention for a rally against arbitrariness," Navalny wrote on Twitter after the verdict.
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I complained about the arbitrariness of a cop giving me a ticket in a speed trap.
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"The decisions of the parole board are fraught with the appearance of arbitrariness," the report stated.
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"On one hand, there is the arbitrariness and aggression of the Trump administration," Mr. Valdés said.
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There are very serious doubts about whether this process eliminates arbitrariness and prejudice from death sentences.
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"I think such laws take us on a dangerous slope toward arbitrariness in a democracy," he said.
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Instead, Stagg approximates the internet by folding its arbitrariness and disorder into the structure of her book.
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A more modern version of this moral arbitrariness is in the work of the psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg.
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It is the arbitrariness of jihadist violence and its disregard for moral bounds that make it terrifying.
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Beyond the issue of arbitrariness in tax treatment, treating carried interest as ordinary income would hammer investments.
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Binet's characters carry on with all of the arbitrariness of signifiers that have been freed from their signifieds.
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But maybe this will help writers care less about awards in general, and focus more on their arbitrariness.
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It's the arbitrariness of the destruction, as much as its shocking power, that makes a tornado so fearsome.
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You spin into a place of arbitrariness and absurdity, and a failure to follow the rule of law.
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They've grappled with the inexpressible, the untranslatable, the arbitrariness of word shapes as they are deployed across blankness.
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Will justices long professing concern about arbitrariness by administrative agencies grapple with the Commerce Department's thoroughly documented irregularities?
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The governments of Russia, China and Pakistan are well-known for their official arbitrariness and grave human-rights violations.
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In any arbitration there is the potential for, well, arbitrariness, especially in a politically charged case like this one.
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He has been a breath of fresh air in a Department that prides itself on its arrogance and arbitrariness.
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"The greatest threat of psychological injury arises not from just the confinement but the arbitrariness of it," he said.
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But if there are no rules there is nothing to improvise with, no conventions to overturn, no arbitrariness to confound.
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Insidious forces include a drive to perfectionism, arbitrariness in enforcing standards, a sense of (and sometimes actual) impunity and arrogance.
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The focused determination she brought to the arbitrariness of the variegated surface sets loose all sorts of thoughts and associations.
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For Yan, the fight wasn't about money, though the compensation was inadequate, but about interrogating the arbitrariness of bureaucratic decisions.
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In fact, "its defining feature is still its arbitrariness," noted Jill Benton, an Atlanta lawyer who defends capital punishment cases.
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A second reason is the infrequency and arbitrariness of parole, as Jennifer Gonnerman documented in a recent New Yorker story.
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Golan's libretto has no room for mystery or ambiguity, which perhaps suits a story about the arbitrariness of cruel fate.
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The inherent arbitrariness and injustice wrought by AB22020's singling out of freelance writers and photojournalists make the law unconstitutional.
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Most U.S. experts and state governments have recognized that its application has been plagued with arbitrariness, racial disparities and error.
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These elements also conspired with the awful arbitrariness of nature to render Red Hook a disaster area when Hurricane Sandy hit.
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Justice Gorsuch, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and others seemed worried about the arbitrariness of government officials' judgments of what counts as "scandalous".
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Real even if futile vis-à-vis the absolute arbitrariness of what happens to be happening moment by moment, day by day.
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There is also a larger conversation that is being played out about the fluidity of cultural identity — and the arbitrariness of borders.
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Justice Stephen G. Breyer said there will always be borderline cases and a degree of arbitrariness in deciding who is disabled intellectually.
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Even a small degree of arbitrariness "is simply not acceptable" in "policy decisions" involving "who is and is not treated as fully human".
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"They want to put an end to the arbitrariness of a company that puts pressure on its employees with stressful work and controls."
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Editorial If one state best embodies all the irrationality, unreliability and arbitrariness of the death penalty in America in 2016, it is Alabama.
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Given this arbitrariness in the system, it is unconscionable to let a man languish on death row without even testing all the evidence.
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Among its reasoning was that it found the Swedish system to have provided "adequate and sufficient guarantees against arbitrariness and the risk of abuse".
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There's often no answer; hear enough such bands and ask the question often enough, and a healthy respect for the gods of arbitrariness emerges.
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But for a business that thrives on giving a voice to as many people as possible, such arbitrariness and opacity may be self-defeating.
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Voices are pitched up; arrangements skid through changes of beat, texture, direction and volume, with the speed and arbitrariness of digital editing run amok.
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A primary problem is the arbitrariness in decision making: Why do some inmates go free while others with nearly identical records stay in prison?
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Without checks and balances, the country has suffered from authoritarianism, arbitrariness, persecution and systematic corruption that offers rewards and unlimited power to government officials.
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While postmodernism rightfully dispensed with the critical requirement of hewing to a logical and often reductive program, it also opened the floodgates to arbitrariness and pastiche.
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This lack of clarity and, in some cases, a seeming arbitrariness as to whose accounts are locked — and not locked, was a key point of conversation last week.
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The fear is that this will inject a degree of arbitrariness into a system that is based on rules underpinned by centuries of precedent under British common law.
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A free media is based on the liberating and empowering belief that the pursuit of universal truths is what unites and armors us against the arbitrariness of authority.
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To combat such arbitrariness, judges in some cities now receive algorithmically generated scores that rate a defendant's risk of skipping trial or committing a violent crime if released.
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"I have lived though the most painful moment of my life," Fujimori told reporters, adding the decision to release her "corrected a process full of abuse and arbitrariness".
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Faced with exclusion, I ask for coexistence; federalism and union, not provincialism and division; the rule of law, not arbitrariness; and pluralism and freedom against dogma and imposition.
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Estimating the true extra social cost of something is more of an art than a science, so charges in practice are often infused with a certain amount of arbitrariness.
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Separatist leaders would replace the Constitution with arbitrariness; judges are being pressured for doing their jobs; the social climate has deteriorated to the point of dividing families and friends.
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The high costs of capital prosecutions, serious doubts about the reliability of capital convictions, concerns about arbitrariness in death sentencing, and the difficulty of finding reliable methods of execution remain.
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We should create the necessary regulations so that employees are no longer exposed to the arbitrariness of an employer who also conducts its business at the expense of their health.
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And yet the seeming arbitrariness of the Grammy nominating process sometimes provides left-field gifts: unexpectedly excellent nominees in categories that almost certainly will not be televised in prime time.
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In the judgement, the grand chamber specifies several criteria to be used by national authorities when assessing whether monitoring of workplace communications is proportionate and employees are protected against arbitrariness, including —
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Even assuming, as Gerber does, that "arbitrariness" provides a sufficient standard for evaluating an impeachment, it is not likely any court would strike down the articles of impeachment passed last month.
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Managed poorly, AI can widen the public-private technology gap, make agencies more vulnerable and less transparent, and heighten concerns about government arbitrariness and biases that are coursing through American politics.
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Its very arbitrariness and its way of shifting your life, focus, and mode of introspection onto the farthest objects away—the stars—rather than onto concerns about identity was liberating for people.
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Roof's layers tried to show "the rate of error" connected to the death penalty, as well as "the unavoidable delay built into the process" and "arbitrariness in … application," according to the filing.
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"There's a lot of arbitrariness and judgment that goes into what people are paid, and that's to the disadvantage of women and minorities, " said Lawrence Mishel, president of the Economic Policy Institute.
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The P.G.U., the Soviet foreign intelligence gathering branch, wants the names of every American Oleg came in contact with in Washington, a demand whose silly arbitrariness makes it all the more frightening.
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Sweden: The country's former ambassador to China has been charged with "arbitrariness during negotiations with a foreign power," after prosecutors said she held unauthorized meetings with two men representing Chinese state interests.
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Sweden: The country's former ambassador to China has been charged with "arbitrariness during negotiations with a foreign power" after prosecutors said she held unauthorized meetings with two men representing Chinese state interests.
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The United Nations' human rights office voiced deep concern on Friday, saying the state's rush to carry out the executions before a drug expired added to the "arbitrariness and cruelty" of the process.
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Now bosses think they have entered a nirvana, when the reality is that the country's system of commerce is lurching away from rules, openness and multilateral treaties towards arbitrariness, insularity and transient deals.
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Such is the arbitrariness of the regime's counter-terrorism court, which has branded tens of thousands of opponents of Mr Assad enemies of the state and sent them to the country's hellish prisons.
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The safeguard against arbitrariness is the internal governance of the Fed board, since any measures must command majority support among experts appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate for long terms.
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Saving Private Ryan is a film that relies almost entirely on the dramatic deaths of its unique characters to drive home Greatest Generation stories about both the heroism and the utter arbitrariness of war.
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The metal wall reliefs also seem to usher in a period of self-indulgence and arbitrariness in stark contrast with the economy of means and the clarity of purpose of the previous Minimalist period.
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It's a subtle trick that suggests both the absurd arbitrariness and inescapability of racial categories, so that when the narrator at last asks us, "Whatever happened to interracial love?" we can already see what happened.
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Sweden's former ambassador to China has been charged with "arbitrariness during negotiations with a foreign power," after she held what Swedish prosecutors said on Monday were unauthorized meetings with two men representing Chinese state interests.
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Mr. Billington had come at my invitation to share sparkling water (too warm for tea) and a gentleman's debate about theatrical excellence, the arbitrariness of lists and the differences between the British and American drama.
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The same arbitrariness that leads Trump to seek the counsel of the extremist conspiracy-theorist Stone also led the president to use Hicks, someone who has no experience or background in government, as a security blanket.
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It is soccer's open market, its porous borders and, most of all, its glorious arbitrariness that explain best why Belgium, and Croatia, are two games away from immortality when bigger, richer nations have long since departed.
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Karen Margolis, Scorched | Presented by K. Imperial Fine Art Working with maps of cities throughout the world, the artist explores the changing landscape of both our physical and internal worlds through the arbitrariness of loss and destruction.
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Whether the lines were zigzagged, scribbled or ruled, or the acres of impasto were plopped, smeared or stroked, his compositions conveyed a willful arbitrariness — randomly determined exercises in which one gesture seemed just as good as another.
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But it's not as serious as the seeping, constant attempt — one sacred value at a time — to disorient Americans to the point they accept the unacceptable, cede to the grotesque, acquiesce to total arbitrariness as a governing principle.
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Pointing to the facts of several recent cases that had come before the court, Justice Breyer asked whether the death penalty itself — plagued by arbitrariness, racism, decades-long delays and faulty execution-drug protocols — violates the Eighth Amendment.
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"Rei breaks down the false walls of these dualisms, exposing their artificiality and arbitrariness," Mr. Bolton said, and he intends with the show to demonstrate how Ms. Kawakubo has worked and played in the space between each of them.
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"We demand that the people who are running the state apparatus stop this legal arbitrariness, end the political repression and start strictly following the norms of the constitution," the academics wrote in the letter, published online by the Troitsky science newspaper.
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When push comes to shove, however, jurors and prosecutors are treating the system like something else: an antiquated relic of a bygone age, largely reserved for the least capable members of society, and handed down with the arbitrariness of lightning.
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But Chelsea Manning's actions embody the struggles and forces about which Foucault spent his entire career thinking and writing: micro-violence, the arbitrariness of categories, the ideology of scientific neutrality, and the management of historical narratives by those in power.
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While Justices Brennan and Marshall found the death penalty itself to be cruel and unusual punishment, Justices Stewart, White and Douglas focused on its arbitrariness, leaving the door wide open for states to rejigger their statutes and return to executions.
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This book-length essay about aimless walks in Weimar-era Berlin, like Paris Peasant, replicates the arbitrariness of a city, describing encountered shops and objects, and mapping connections among simultaneous activities — walking, looking, thinking, joking, free associating, daydreaming and composing.
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The second — arbitrariness — focused on data showing that the death penalty does not punish "the worst of the worst," as intended, and that a "county-by-county disparity" exists, resulting in most death sentences across the country being imposed in a small handful of counties.
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Using the most advanced data analytics technology and best practices to isolate and evaluate rules for potential elimination without exposing society to harmful impacts could negate claims of arbitrariness, such as the one made against the President by the three lawsuit plaintiffs referenced above.
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"Put simply, California's costly 'administration of the death penalty' likely embodies three fundamental defects about which I have previously written: '(1) serious unreliability, (2) arbitrariness in application, and (3) unconscionably long delays that undermine the death penalty's penological purpose,' " Breyer wrote in the order Monday.
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Yet, little discrepancies, like shrunken details of the three-dimensionally printed rug and books on the shelves that reveal themselves to be wooden blocks, all spur a poignant sense of "being off," a stuttering translation of the two cultures across the arbitrariness of borders.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights office voiced deep concern on Friday at the execution of four men in Arkansas in the past week saying that the rush to carry them out before a drug expired added to the "arbitrariness and cruelty" of the process.
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As such, the book takes us far from the clichéd, trite, conventional (ab)use that some successful postmodern appropriation artists have made of Duchamp by merely aping the enigmatic genius by which art objects were created entirely through the singular whim and arbitrariness of his psyche.
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The arbitrariness of the policy comes through especially in the last leaked slide, which, without any explanation, features two examples of images that would be removed from Facebook: works of "handmade art" (one a painting, the other a sculpture) depicting the rape of the Sabine women.
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They include fear of political persecution, terrorism, a deepening distrust of the judiciary and the arbitrariness of the rule of law, and a deteriorating business climate, accelerated by worries that Mr. Erdogan is unsoundly manipulating management of the economy to benefit himself and his inner circle.
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His remarks, in the mosque, about being the only person in his family who could be President pointed up the arbitrariness of one's place of birth — and all the judgments that are based on that — and reminded us that American citizenship can offer little protection for minority Americans.
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GENEVA, April 28 (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights office voiced deep concern on Friday at the execution of four men in Arkansas in the past week saying that the rush to carry them out before a drug expired added to the "arbitrariness and cruelty" of the process.
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The current sweeping regulations, PEN America says, represent the largest book ban policy in the US. The report, entitled "Literature Locked Up: How Prison Book Restriction Policies Constitute the Nation's Largest Book Ban" points to arbitrariness in implementing book bans in prisons and a lack of transparency and oversight over the process.
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Endearing in his strange, inept way, but profoundly strange as he puts on different accents, fixates on random objects, and occasionally chews on words like he's about the launch into a classic stoner ramble about the arbitrariness of language, the relationship between object and meaning, and how weird he feels, you guys.
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Puerto Rico's Senate Minority Leader Eduardo Bhatia also called Monday for police to explain the "arbitrariness" of their use of tear gas, saying in a statement that the use of the gas over the past few nights has been at the exact same time, suggesting a pre-meditated pattern rather than a response to an immediate threat.
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Steve Lacy: Apollo XXI (3qtr) Having gained renown as an adventurous, mellow producer for his work with Ravyn Lenae, Solange, Vampire Weekend, and his own group The Internet, on his first solo album Steve Lacy unveils his elaborate musical theories in full — about the fluidity of genre, the interlocking of guitars and synthesizers, the arbitrariness of song structure.
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With four justices on board, enough to have granted the case if they desired to do so, the side-stepping statement appeared to be an effort to get lawyers to make a stronger evidentiary argument advancing the arbitrariness concerns that Breyer detailed in his Glossip dissent before having the full court hear — and vote on — the arguments on the issue.
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A startling early skirmish between the local Pawnee tribe and a contingent of white trappers serves notice as to the level of brutal realism the film intends to deliver; the whoosh and sudden impact of arrows may never have been more vividly rendered, nor perhaps the sense of panic, confusion, horse speed and arbitrariness of who survives and who does not.
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"On the current state of the ECHR case-law, we do not consider the bulk powers in the Bill to be inherently incompatible with the right to respect for private life, but capable of being justified if they have a sufficiently clear legal basis, are shown to be necessary, and are proportionate in that they are accompanied by adequate safeguards against arbitrariness," it writes.
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