(v. t.) Capable of being decided by arbitration; determinable.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Weinstein Company, which Harvey owns with his brother Bob, lost rights to the title on Tuesday following a ruling by the Motion Picture Association of America's arbitration board.
(2) However, an amended version of the new contract for England’s 55,000 junior doctors has now finally been agreed, after 10 days of talks overseen by the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas).
(3) Had July’s original Fifa judgment not been watered down by the court of arbitration for sport then he would not even have been permitted to train while the ban was in place.
(4) A Football Association Rule K hearing could see the Italian take the League to an independent arbitration tribunal, which may prove a lengthy process.
(5) After the court of arbitration for sport upheld the ban but reduced the sanction from six years to four, Platini again protested his innocence and railed against a “profound injustice”.
(6) On Thursday, the court of arbitration for sport upheld the ban on 68 Russian track and field athletes from the Rio games made by athletics’ governing body, the IAAF.
(7) Nevertheless a great deal of progress was made over the recognition criteria, with agreement reached on all points except the method of appointments to the new regulator, over which the Guardian had reservations, and the arbitration service, which the regional press and magazine editors feared could result in unsustainable cost.
(8) They won't put to rights the arbitration procedures that local editors fear; they'll continue to debate the rights and wrongs of exemplary damages till kingdom come.
(9) Appearing before the court on Tuesday, Australia’s solicitor general, Justin Gleeson SC, said Brandis had previously directed that the material not be communicated to anyone involved in conducting the arbitration.
(10) The arbitration hearing before a former federal judge will determine whether the NFL overstepped its authority in modifying Rice’s two-game suspension, making it indefinite after video of the running back hitting his wife – then his fiancee – was released by TMZ.
(11) Then Fredric Horowitz, baseball's arbitrator, will have 25 games to come to his judgement.
(12) Last week, the suspended Fifa president and his Uefa counterpart lost appeals over their provisional suspensions and plan to take their cases to the court of arbitration for sport.
(13) The case dates back to 2008, when Lagarde, as Sarkozy's finance minister, ordered private arbitration in a long-running business dispute between Tapie and the French state.
(14) Major League Baseball does not announce positive tests and penalties in drug cases involving initial positives until all arbitration is concluded.
(15) All of this is being set aside, as the new agreements call for private, non-transparent, and very expensive arbitration.
(16) It does not address the substance of the issues at hand – neither the arbitral tribunal's jurisdiction nor Mauritius's claim.
(17) Ipso will include a standards and compliance arm with investigative powers and an arbitration service to offer a speedy and inexpensive alternative to the libel courts.
(18) "A woman with such a marriage would have no choice but to go to a sharia tribunal … But it's not the way arbitration is supposed to work."
(19) The detail is still being worked on, he said, but any magazine or newspaper that does not comply with regulation will effectively be preventing a complainant from using a cheaper, royal charter-approved arbitration service and so forcing them to take their case to court.
(20) What is proposed is that the new body should contain an arbitration procedure that will be quicker and more open than the commission, and cheaper and more accessible than the law.
Arbitrary
Definition:
(a.) Depending on will or discretion; not governed by any fixed rules; as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment.
(a.) Exercised according to one's own will or caprice, and therefore conveying a notion of a tendency to abuse the possession of power.
(a.) Despotic; absolute in power; bound by no law; harsh and unforbearing; tyrannical; as, an arbitrary prince or government.
Example Sentences:
(1) This developed concept of "valve only" energy loss has the potential of standardising the findings of different research groups by removing the arbitrary selection of measurement points from reported results.
(2) 'Vertical' sections are plane sections longitudinal to a fixed (but arbitrary) axial direction.
(3) In the microtitre plate assay only 45% of specific IgE was immobilized and it was necessary to express the results in arbitrary units.
(4) It is concluded that renin levels in hypertension are influenced by several factors and that any attempt to subdivide patients into renin subgroups is therefore arbitrary.
(5) In his letter Abd El Fattah highlights the arbitrary nature of many of their detentions, the torture to which thousands have probably been subjected – and the apathy towards, and often enthusiasm for, such malpractice among the public.
(6) Although the diagnosis of hyperlipidemia is somewhat arbitrary, in that the upper limits of normal are not universally agreed upon, it is clear that the risk of atherosclerosis increases with plasma cholesterol concentration; it may also increase in hyperglyceridemia.
(7) Several arbitrary definitions have been used, some related to visual estimates of coronary stenosis and others to quantitative angiographic techniques.
(8) More than 60% of the residents' working hours in this program exceeded the arbitrary 80-hour limit, emphasizing the challenge of complying with the imposition of maximum work hours.
(9) Practically, serially accumulated images with sequentially prolonged accumulation times are weighted by two arbitrary functions.
(10) While somewhat arbitrary, the number of drug-affected newborns, adjusted for underreporting, was about 38,000 (95% confidence interval: 30,000-45,000).
(11) The almost-Orwellian technology that enables the government to store and analyze the phone metadata of every telephone user in the United States is unlike anything that could have been conceived in 1979 [...] I cannot imagine a more "indiscriminate" and "arbitrary invasion" than this systematic and high-tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every single citizen for purposes of querying and analyzing it without prior judicial approval.
(12) For the chain with arbitrary values of characteristic times of individual stages the maximal possible degree of the chain stability and corresponding value of the feedback coefficient are estimated.
(13) The cellular total polyamine (spermidine + spermine) concentration on the slides varied between 4 and 15 nmol per mg protein (MCF-7 cells) and 5 and 26 nmol per mg protein (HeLa cells) and the corresponding microfluorometric results between 60 and 115 arbitrary units (MCF-7 cells) and 80 and 160 arbitrary units (HeLa cells).
(14) A general purpose computer program, PROPAGATE, has been written to allow addition, deletion, and modification of the beam line elements used in the calculation and to provide a convenient means of repeating such calculations for arbitrary beam lines.
(15) The current government should learn from past mistakes and not expand the programme too quickly in pursuit of arbitrary targets, and, above all else, not overclaim for free schools.
(16) The device consists of a motor-driven shaft which moves the record past a fixed cursor, and an electronic counter which records the movements of the shaft, thereby providing a cumulative tally of the distance of the current position of the cursor from some arbitrary origin on the record.
(17) Analysis of total radioligand binding was found to be a better procedure because it eliminates the use of an arbitrary concentration of unlabelled ligand and improves the accuracy of the assay.
(18) Water ferns (Salviniaceae) and seed ferns (Pteridospermae) are known as the arbitrary type of Lycopsida which did not reach the state of shot structure of the body.
(19) Methods are reviewed for estimating the transverse relaxation time T2 and the pseudodensity (PD) from spin-echo measurements acquired at an arbitrary set of echo times [TEi].
(20) The response of the resting (fully formed) hair follicle to irradiation was studied using an arbitrary 6 unit scale of epilation as an endpoint.