But if implemented it would have represented a dangerous exercise in arbitrary power.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It also tended to limit the exercise of arbitrary power by the emperor himself.
Stearns, Peter N. World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity (1995)
It is a test case for the supremacy of law over arbitrary power.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
These days arbitrary power has unmistakably comic undertones.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)