"I cannot associate myself with the arbitrary and undignified methods used to govern the orchestra," he said in a statement.

His whole reign featured dissension between ruler and ruled, the duke's irregular and arbitrary methods of raising money arousing great discontent.

The above example could be used in an arbitrary method like this:

Miss Marple did not resent it because people seldom did resent Mr. Rafter's somewhat arbitrary method of doing things.

This means that whenever the different variables have different units (like temperature and mass), PCA is a somewhat arbitrary method of analysis.

Using similarly arbitrary methods, he achieved the monopoly of every trade and industrial enterprise in the country.

For the first game, a dealer is chosen by an arbitrary method.

Similarly, schoolchildren are often organized by their surname in alphabetical order, a non-random yet still arbitrary method, at least in cases where surnames are irrelevant.

Yet these good measures were all carried out by arbitrary methods which made them unpopular.

For years the Government of Erebus had been unsatisfactory to many of its subjects, mainly on account of the arbitrary methods of the Weather Department.