It was complex, but there was something capricious about its complexity.

And to write a new operating system was not a capricious matter.

But I was still troubled, and I was troubled because I felt this was capricious.

Furthermore, poorly designed or developed laws on director and officer responsibilities and liabilities, with outcomes that are uncertain, capricious, unfair or parochial, threaten the benefits of globalization.

Studies for the structure of the roof, which demands maybe new materials how to make it white, how to make it translucent, how to make it glowing, how to make it not capricious.

Not only the US and Europe, but all former Soviet republics feel alienated by Putin s aggressive tactics. Many are seeking to shield themselves from Russia s capricious embargos for example, by seeking alternative energy supplies.

Meanwhile, the authorities continue their assault on independent media through capricious licensing rules, interrogations, and, on occasion, revoking the permits of reporters for international broadcasters like the Voice of America. Leading journalists have been assaulted, the culprits never found.

This is not surprising, given the slowdown in consumption growth (car sales, for example, are suffering a prolonged decline). India has been left to finance its external deficit increasingly through short term borrowing, the most capricious form of international capital.

And this really is a sobering picture upon realizing that we, humans, are in charge of life on earth we're like the capricious Gods of old Greek myths, kind of playing with life and not a great deal of wisdom injected into it.

Arguably, the ideal of a well defined and effective international monetary regime has become more difficult to realize as markets and capital flows have become vastly larger and more capricious. Indeed, the global economy, it is said, has grown and emerging countries have flourished without a more organized system.

In some cases, insurance companies argued that houses were damaged by flood, not wind, which their policies cover more generously. That may seem like capricious hair splitting to people who have suffered a major loss, but such terms are in the insurance contracts that they signed, whether they understood them or not.

Consider recent events in Argentina, which is facing certain economic losses as anxious investors have second thoughts about the country in the aftermath of the government s nationalization of energy giant YPF. That response is only logical, as investors seek the security of a well functioning legal system to protect them from capricious political decisions.