Sentences with phrase «by arcane rules»

The entertainment and media industries are governed by arcane rules and precedents developed over a century.

All the hoopla atheists get worked up over with the various religions generally have to do with the fact that many of the believers seem to think that we should all live by their arcane rules.

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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.

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.

His careful attempts to position the party as a brake on the more right - wing instincts of the Conservatives have been blown off course by having to deal with serious allegations about Liberal Democrat conduct and defend arcane aspects of party rules and culture.

Funding is harder to come by than it used to be, and the more complex and arcane rules of the funding process are taken seriously by the scientists» home institutions and supporting agencies alike.

Vicky Krieps plays Alma, a woman who becomes the celebrity dressmaker's latest model - muse - assistant - lover, and who soon begins pushing against the arcane rules and restrictions enforced by...

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.

With thoughtful use of your cards, you can obtain the monsters of your enemy and support your attacks by using arcane spells and the rules of dark magic.

Regardless of how vague, arcane, and unworkable your rules may be, you must keep them in mind, but not be paralyzed by them.

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.