In a moment it appeared: sixteen somewhat arbitrary classifications of games of intellectual skill.

The demographic and political applications of the terms have led to a temptation to presume this arbitrary classification is a clear-cut and fundamental cultural division.

Finally, I will review the way in which the system of levels of attainment encourages the arbitrary classification of children into groups of varying educational value.

Kindling is an arbitrary classification including anything bigger than tinder but smaller than fuelwood.

They set up a thousand arbitrary classifications and distinctions which he could not comprehend, convinced as he was that all people were only people-and there was very little to choose between them.

Satellites and prions are not classified as viruses but are assigned an arbitrary classification as seems useful to workers in the particular fields.

"Red tape and arbitrary classifications sometimes limit us too severely in our adoptions."

And, like Michigan, we are starting to base rates on such criteria as miles driven and number of traffic violations, rather than on arbitrary classifications.

An arbitrary classification of types is also adopted to impose some order in the field.

Up to now (2010) there is no phylogenetic analysis to substantiate this rather arbitrary classification.