Sentences with phrase «archaic rules»

For centuries, Western art and culture have relied on principles of sacred geometry, on mysterious and archaic rules of proportion, maybe secretly.

With archaic rules granting preference to company title over experience, we are severely limiting our talent pool.

Such challenges are compounded by archaic rules, top - down administration, and school board politics, he added.

Birds and some primates vocalise to establish their territory, with speakers dominant while listeners are somewhat submissive - and archaic rules for royalty show that this proclivity also applies to humans.

Robo - animals aside, Alloy is also fighting a more insidious battle against an oppressive caste system that discards members of its society based on archaic rules, opening them up to cruel treatment from tribe members.

OPINION Archaic rules hobble attorneys Businesspeople and consumers would laugh at advertising limits on lawyers.

It is really troubling to me that, despite the number of new orphans the earthquake produced, Haiti is still clinging to it's archaic rules about couples needing to be married for 10 years, and to have no biological children, and be over 30 years old, in order to adopt.»

«Even if Speaker Silver were to leave tomorrow and you bring a new person, he or she would still follow the same archaic rules that are in place where we can't get bills to the floor, where the Speaker assigns chairmanships, where we don't have independent committees.

There can be no doubt that these increasingly archaic rules were troublesome and as long ago as 1989 the Law Commission started consultations on alterations to them.

Asinine and archaic rules in the workplace are pretty much a guaranteed way to drive a good employee straight out the door.

Robo - animals aside, Alloy is also fighting a more insidious battle against an oppressive caste system that discards members of its society based on archaic rules, opening them up to cruel treatment from tribe members.

Archaic rules hobble attorneys National Law Journal, September 2009 Businesspeople and consumers would laugh at advertising limits on lawyers.

just because you can follow the old rules in religious places (while forgetting the archaic rules of course), doesn't mean you need to do that for social media.

Some people follow the archaic rule of not wearing black and navy but honestly I love this combo.

As for the archaic rules some courts have about restricting the use of wireless networks in the courtroom, those rules will go the way of the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

It's also unclear how memorizing often - archaic rules to prepare for standardized, high - stakes multiple - choice tests that are administered under stressful conditions will in any way improve one's ability to competently practice law.

In addition, Virginia has an archaic rule called «contributory negligence» that only exists in three other states.

However, although many of the archaic rules have been swept away, the new provisions may still prove to be a formidable obstacle to any shareholder seeking to bring a claim.

Several Hawai'i judges privately expressed support for the march, Portnoy said, but added that «archaic rules» governing judicial conduct prevented them from joining the protest.

These archaic rules were making it unnecessarily difficult for Trademark Factory ® to provide our clients with the level of service they deserve.

This archaic rule, which ignores the recognised fact that many victims of sexual assault do not have the psychological resources to commence litigation within six years, has long been condemned as unjust and nonsensical.