While Steve Jobs is certainly capable of being peevish and capricious, his criticisms have the ring of truth.
For Palin, the choice to stay in office until July 26 seems capricious, Culp notes.
The more complex the tax code, the more arbitrary and capricious enforcement is sure to be.
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The underlying structure of Californian government is rotten unaccountable, capricious, counterproductive and often deeply undemocratic.
"I love a great unreliable narrator, " said Ms. Flynn, whose twisted novel alternates between two capricious narrators.
If that seems capricious, consider the alternative: anyone could hang out a shingle and declare themselves an expert.
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Earlier this month, the court describe the measure as "arbitrary and capricious", after industry groups sued the city.
Hard to be phlegmatic when the cards are stacked and the capricious gods are pissed and feeling vindictive.
It had taken him years to wring the human element and its capricious whims out of his operation.
The conclusion is hard to escape: If you intend to live and work under capricious Chinese laws, who needs Hong Kong?
Just as we found likeable leaders at every level, there are also some who are prickly, capricious and arrogant.
Excessively risk-averse, capricious and at times even hostile FDA regulation has made drug development extraordinarily difficult in recent years.
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Mr. Menzel's "Capricious Summer" (1968) fuses comedy and social commentary in a toothsome admixture set in the Bohemian countryside.
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Policies and regulations have evolved unintentionally to become complex, over-reaching, and often capricious.
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But you can be sure of one thing if the capricious Mr Kim is persuaded back to the table.
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They may stay away, deterred both by the controls and by the capricious regulatory climate, depriving the country of investment capital.
Still, they appear capricious, raising their target after a period of strong stockmarket returns and lowering it during the lean years.
Like most populations that have been brutalized by capricious despots and their police-state apparatuses, Iraqis have highly developed senses of self-preservation.
The courts are slow and capricious, so contracts are hard to enforce.
Business figures accused the government of a capricious approach to executive pay.
It tells of a strange child's forlorn travels through the universe after quitting his native planet, B-612, to escape a vain, capricious rose.
But, as capricious tax bills levied by freelancing officials have attested, the forces unleashed by the Yukos affair may be beyond Mr Putin's control.
In January India's Supreme Court sided with Vodafone in a ruling that many hoped would bring stability to India's capricious treatment of foreign investors.
The injustice spurs the family to support the opposition that eventually topples the monarchy, only to face an even more capricious and repressive regime.
State-capitalist governments can be capricious, with scant regard for minority shareholders.
Jackson portrays the holy man, Reuben, as near-saintly and a good listener, until he unexpectedly whacks Katie with his huge walking stick for her capricious ways.
Intelligent, capable, capricious, Mr Castro retains almost total control over every aspect of government which is the biggest reason why the country is in such a mess.
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