Sentences with phrase «arcane rules from»

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The Massachusetts Democrat ran afoul of the chamber's arcane rules by reading a three - decade - old letter from Dr. Martin Luther King's widow that dated to Sen. Jeff Sessions» failed judicial nomination three decades ago.

In 1921 he also took on the game's greatest star, Babe Ruth, for violating an arcane rule forbidding members of a World Series team from postseason barnstorming.

Just have to say «well done to the Republican Party for figuring out how to steal elections from the people using arcane rules designed to keep rural landholders in charge.

The Senate majority used disingenuous interpretations of arcane rules to block the bill from coming to a vote.

From the arcane rules, to the steep ballot requirements and a quasi-professional underfunded electoral machinery controlled by the two - parties, for the two parties — it is nearly impossible for concerned citizens to run for office, said Babinec.

In races for local office over the last few decades, he has been booted from the ballot before, showing little mastery of the city's arcane election rules.

Blanchett was immediately widely tipped for the actress prize (although, in accordance with the arcane rules governing Cannes» award - giving, this would have precluded the film from the Palme d'or), but, satisfyingly, the jury instead graced Rooney Mara with their favour (the young actress winning ex aequo with Mon Roi's Emmanuelle Bercot), whose rendition of Carol's younger lover Thérèse is more subtly beguiling than Blanchett's dramatics.

While Netflix likely will have to keep evolving its model to have more of a theatrical presence, it is doing too many risky things on the feature front to be defined derogatorily at this point, especially by a French festival that risks rendering itself arcane by not using its clout to change French chronology rules that keep French - distributed films from SVOD for three years.

Cole, pictured above, stars as the story's hero Don Wallace, a wide - eyed new boy from a modest background forced to navigate a baffling new world of arcane rules and rituals.

While citation styles in other disciplines have moved increasingly towards greater simplicity and clarity, concentrating on malleable concepts and abandoning the use of arcane bibliographic terms and obscure abbreviations, all legal citation guides continue to share and suffer from the same conceptual error: namely, that there should be a rule for every possible source to which a legal professional might refer and, better yet, an abbreviation for every source in which the reference might be found.

An example recalled by Peter Griffiths was the quick adoption of new criminal rules: «Overnight we went from dozens of arcane rules (modelled on those of the Superior Court and widely ignored) to only five rules written in plain language.