6 sentences with 'arbitrary'
Example sentences and phrases with the word arbitrary and other words derived from it.
• « Following papal intervention and negotiations between the Spanish and Portuguese, the Spanish were to receive everything west of an arbitrary line on the map 1,100 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands, and everything to the east was to be granted to the Portuguese. »
• « In other words, Pascal said that there was nothing fixed or eternal or God-given about royal decrees and laws; they were arbitrary customs imposed by the state. »
• « The Enlightenment was also against "tyranny", which meant the arbitrary rule of a monarch indifferent to the welfare of his subjects. »
• « Also, new ten-day weeks were introduced, with new four-week months named for their weather rather than arbitrary historical figures (for example, the month of August, named after Augustus Caesar, was renamed "Thermidor", meaning "hot". February became "Brumaire", meaning "misty", and April became "Prairial", meaning "spring"). »
• « Finally, taxes were not arbitrary or extremely high (as they were in most of Spain and Italy, for example). »