English vocabulary examples in context: arbitrarily
Vocabulary in context: arbitrarily -- Example 1.
That done, when I get to the end of this cryptographic system, made up of the 234--which was arbitrarily selected, do not forget!
Vocabulary in context: arbitrarily -- Example 2.
During the latter part of this day he had been trying different numbers--numbers selected arbitrarily--and how many of them can scarcely be imagined.
Vocabulary in context: arbitrarily -- Example 3.
But the cruelest habit the modern prophecy-savans have, is that one of coolly and arbitrarily fitting the prophetic shirt on to the wrong man.
Vocabulary in context: arbitrarily -- Example 4.
Laws of motion of any kind become comprehensible to man only when he examines arbitrarily selected elements of that motion; but at the same time, a large proportion of human error comes from the arbitrary division of continuous motion into discontinuous elements.
Vocabulary in context: arbitrarily -- Example 5.
The absurd answer (that Achilles could never overtake the tortoise) resulted from this: that motion was arbitrarily divided into discontinuous elements, whereas the motion both of Achilles and of the tortoise was continuous.
Vocabulary in context: arbitrarily -- Example 6.
The first method of history is to take an arbitrarily selected series of continuous events and examine it apart from others, though there is and can be no beginning to any event, for one event always flows uninterruptedly from another.
Vocabulary in context: arbitrarily -- Example 7.
It is merely necessary to select some larger or smaller unit as the subject of observation- as criticism has every right to do, seeing that whatever unit history observes must always be arbitrarily selected.
Vocabulary in context: arbitrarily -- Example 8.
This problem is only solvable if we cease arbitrarily to substitute for the unknown x itself the conditions under which that force becomes apparent- such as the commands of the general, the equipment employed, and so on- mistaking these for the real significance of the factor, and if we recognize this unknown quantity in its entirety as being the greater or lesser desire to fight and to face danger.
