To end this way feels like an epilogue, she thought, amazed at fate's arbitrary whims.

Students did not conclude that "differences between religions are negligible or that choices about religion are arbitrary whims."

It's an arbitrary whim.

They do not spring from a vacuum or according to some arbitrary whim of the people and legislators, but have their origins in the human need to control and order existence.

Mayors, of course, have no statutory authority in Albany, and have long been battered by the sometimes arbitrary whims of state officials, who have enormous control over the city.

Some things are simply too important to leave to the arbitrary whims of the invisible hand.

This is not the arbitrary whim that Mr. O'Toole suggests but rather a federally protected right.

It was said to be a human invention, imposed by the arbitrary whim of a tyrannical prelate against the primitive Gospel freedom of the church:

The refugees are subject to the arbitrary whims of the Serbs, who are determined to show they rule Kosovo.

He believed that the artistic value of comics was being undermined, and that the space they occupied in newspapers continually decreased, subject to arbitrary whims of shortsighted publishers.