Sentences with 'arbitrarily'
Example sentences and phrases with the word arbitrarily and other words derived from it.
• « Thales of Miletus explained earthquakes not as punishments arbitrarily inflicted by the gods on mankind, but as the result of the earth floating in a gigantic ocean that occasionally splashed against it. »
• « In addition to forms of labour exploitation, European powers imposed "frontiers" where none had existed, dividing existing kingdoms, tribes and cultures and arbitrarily grouping different ones together. »
• « Many of the countries seeking independence were primarily products of imperialism - the 'national' borders of states such as Iraq, Ghana and Rwanda had been arbitrarily created by imperial powers decades earlier with total disregard for the religious and ethnic differences of the peoples living within the borders. »