These experts say it would be foolish to adhere rigidly to boundaries arbitrarily drawn if it made good military sense to establish temporary unitary command arrangements.

A world in which the political boundaries are not arbitrarily drawn by the superpowers.

In towns like Wernigerode, East Germany, business and social cooperation has spilled across a dividing line that was painfully and arbitrarily drawn.

This is especially dangerous in a region where political frontiers, arbitrarily drawn by old colonial powers, divide the tribes.

All mining activity ceased abruptly along an imaginary north-south line, drawn arbitrarily across the open grassland.

Yellowstone National Park boundaries were arbitrarily drawn in 1872 in hopes of including all regional geothermal basins in the area.

Their borders were meaningless and arbitrarily drawn.

In Africa, which has also had its share of border disputes, boundaries were drawn arbitrarily by colonial powers and often slice right through traditional tribal homelands.

My being left-handed and all, it seemed like I should be able to wear it as a normal left-handed person would, not some arbitrarily drawn regulation.

This line is drawn arbitrarily.