nonarbitrary

There was a nonarbitrary cultural process that came up with Mrs. Dalloway.

A Response to a Response Hal Duncan 2007

His challenge to Doerflinger was to defend, in a nonarbitrary way and without reference to religious principles, the notion that society should recognize moral value and legal rights at any particular point along that line.

The Democrats and the Abortion Wars 2008

(Is there some nonarbitrary way of specifying what sort of majority is required in favor of secession before it can be said that the group in question has chosen to exercise its right to secede?).

Secession Buchanan, Allen 2007

But I don't think that there need be an intrinsic link of signifier to signified for a language to be used in nonarbitrary ways.

Binary Oppositions: Good or Bad? Horace Jeffery Hodges 2005

Even apart from the problems above, retributivists have yet to construct a nonarbitrary way of deciding what sentence the guilty offender deserves as punishment.

Punishment Bedau, Hugo Adam 2005

Jon Kuzmich's ostensibly abstract painting stands out by its material subtlety, but it betokens the sort of effort that lay behind Cage's refusal of nonarbitrary decision making.

SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter Kenneth Baker 2012

They were still, however, subject to nonarbitrary lending qualifications.

Halfway There 2009

: * Procedures for selecting who to stop must be "reasonably predictable and nonarbitrary."

PegasusNews.com stories 2009

: * Procedures for selecting who to stop must be "reasonably predictable and nonarbitrary."

PegasusNews.com stories 2009

There is no nonarbitrary way to bar religious conscience alone from politics.

Balderdash 2009