Repression, even if subcontracted, will only perpetuate rule by arbitrary violence.

By the end of the occupation their name was synonymous with arbitrary violence and frightful cruelty.

During the Balkan wars, which killed about 250,000 people from 1992 to 1995, intimidation and arbitrary ethnic violence forced the exodus of nearly two million people.

According to senior investigators, they range from an attack by Middle Eastern terrorists to an act of arbitrary violence by a domestic militia organization.

In an effort to secure its rule in the interim, the communist government resorted to arbitrary violence.

Torture and arbitrary violence were daily events.

An example would be a criminal who treats rules with contempt, somebody who is insane, or a terrorist plotting arbitrary violence.

The Burmese army and police were accused of playing a leading role in targeting Rohingyas through mass arrests and arbitrary violence.

Lamb wrote this about the arbitrary violence of Boyer:

Nepal's fledgling democracy is shaky and the rule of law is constantly giving way to the arbitrary and to violence.