Some of the Americans were no doubt included for utterly arbitrary reasons.

He had been a strange man who apparently delighted in having men flogged and was utterly arbitrary.

Decisions by the Managing Partner might be utterly arbitrary ... but they were utterly final.

Frum subsequently criticized the "utterly arbitrary ad hoc decision-making of a fathomlessly cowardly university administration."

As J. Monod properly emphasized three decades ago in a slightly dierent context concerning activation and inhibition of enzymes at allosteric sites on the enzyme that are distant from the catalytic site, the relation of chemical structures that achieve control of catalysis are utterly arbitrary with respect to the chemical structures that undergo the catalysis.

At the end of each turn, all sets on the table must be valid, but during the course of a turn, utterly arbitrary temporary re-arrangements are allowed.

Because of this, which amino acid is charged onto a particular transfer RNA is utterly arbitrary and controlled by the aminoacyle transferase enzyme that does the charging, plus the structure of the amino acid binding site on the transfer RNA.

Clive Stafford Smith, who has devoted his legal career to defending those facing execution, says: 'Who gets killed is utterly arbitrary.

Of course, the four traits it measures are utterly arbitrary, based on what my friend and I came up with over the course of a phone call.

Evidence as a criterion of truth explains the utterly arbitrary character of the metaphysical assertions.