Sentences with phrase «from arcane»

And Bloomberg is coming up with a flat rate, rational pricing structure for its legal materials, a far cry from the arcane deals now worked out on an individual basis by WESTLAW and LEXIS.

Neither politicians nor the public respond to nuanced, cautiously worded messages from the arcane world of science...

For these artists, making art involves immersion in natural history, science and alchemy, with inspiration ranging from arcane botanical illustrations to birding field guides and complex weather charts.

For these artists making art is an engulfing activity that involves immersion in natural history, science and alchemy with inspiration from arcane botanical illustrations, to birding field guides to weather charts.

Thanks to some clever accounting and moving money from an arcane state economic development fund, we were able to bankroll the dome without any bonds or loans being issued — something almost unheard of it today when it comes to publicly financed stadiums.

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.

On Tuesday, I had a brief and welcome interlude from the arcane details of House of Lords reform when Her Majesty came to Westminster Hall to receive addresses from both Houses of Parliament and to see the Diamond Jubilee window, a gift paid for by MPs and Peers from all political parties.

It's a LOOOOONG way from arcane arguments about the supposed necessity of some sort of uncaused caused to the anthropomorphisized monstrosties called Yahweh or Allah.

Sure, although the upsides run from the arcane to the intangible.

Not exact matches

According to John Mauldin, a Texas - based wealth adviser to the rich and author of the popular Thoughts from the Frontlines market newsletter, Solvency II is not on the radar screen of most people outside the arcane world of European pension funds and insurance companies.

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.

He pursued lines of questioning up arcane theological paths which repeatedly brought objections from the plaintiffs and the query from the bench: «Where are you going with this?»

Stevens first discovered the delights of the senses and the «sensuous abstractions» of arcane words at Harvard, where he studied from 1897 to 1900.

It is however wonderfully rewarding to be rid of such primitive, arcane nonsense and be able to live a wonderful life free of threats and promises from some idiotic sky daddy.

Smothering your arcane 2000 yr old religious beliefs in burning bushes and flying men from sky on little children is an abuse of worst kind.

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 title of the book — one of the first to come from Blizzard Books, the publishing arm of the quarterly magazine devoted to the arcane, the obscure and the otherwise - unpublishable - in - this - modern - age — describes Erbstein as «football's forgotten pioneer,» and the contents don't disappoint.

Those same MPs who have for decades supported the Misuse of Drugs Act, that piece of arcane and ineffective legislation which outlaws the more «traditional» drugs - cannabis, cocaine, heroin, MDMA, etc - in every sense from personal use and possession all the way up to production, are now suddenly concerned with criminalising users.

The state's attorney general has proposed a package of bills aimed at improving to what he said are «arcane» and «ridiculous» voting laws that bar many potential New York voters from casting ballots.

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

On Thursday afternoon, Mayor Bill de Blasio will unveil his $ 82 billion budget, one that faces fierce headwinds from Albany, thanks in part to an arcane, unpublicized municipal finance issue that stands to undermine the spending package by an additional $ 650 million.

«I think these candidates need to be much more specific in terms of the plan for the way forward,» said Lazio, who gave his remarks on the final day for receiving a judicial nomination by the Bronx Republican Party, which he has to accept in order to be removed from the Conservative line under New York's arcane ballot laws.

Defender services across New York State need strong investment from our partners in government to guarantee counsel for every family struggling with this arcane process.»

No true student of history could have made such a cataclysmic and monumental error, given the terrible experiences of others from the south - west, and, indeed, the entire south, who collaborated with such ultra-conservative, sectarian and arcane forces with a clear and distinct ethnic and religious agenda in the past.

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.

Natural Sciences students from the University of Leicester have put these arcane medical practices to the test — and have concluded that a little magic might indeed be required in both situations to make them scientifically feasible.

He gave Preskill a baseball encyclopedia — from which arcane information could be recovered at will.

To keep his findings from the eyes of the curious he wrote under various pseudonyms and anagrams, and shrouded his writings in the arcane language of alchemy.

Soft though it may be, West's smiling voice speaks with persuasiveness and the authority that comes from an impressive ability to interpret the arcane microscopic clues left in the gut by obscure diseases.

It covers a huge area of intellectual ground, from evolutionary conundrums — such as our relationship to the great apes, why we are hairless and bipedal — to matters as arcane as the human aura.

The human cerebral cortex contains 16 billion neurons, wired together into arcane, layered circuits responsible for everything from our ability to walk and talk to our sense of nostalgia and drive to dream of the future.

He was staring hard into an arcane device called a blink comparator, which allowed him to rapidly switch from viewing one image to the next.

Dishonored the latest game from Bethesda but developed by Arcane Studios is here offering gamers a number of choices on how to carry out a number of different missions.

But Gomes» arcane storytelling style and frequent use of absurdity will require a good deal of patience from filmgoers.

Dishonored 2 is a sequel to the beloved Dishonored from our friends at Arcane Studios.

Building on the tradition he had established in films like Alps and Dogtooth, he there brought his obsession with societies built on arcane systems of governance to glorious fruition in a mesmerizing tale anchored by a deliriously deadpan performance from Colin Farrell (Seven Psychopaths).

It takes standard horror conventions (the coven in the girl's school, demonic possession, arcane rites and rituals) and subverts them, allegorizes them, raises them from low art to high.

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.

There are felicities of design, from glimpses of the arcane world cuisine that Greg's dad experiments with, through the most appealing secondhand book - and - DVD store I've seen in a film for some time (for all I know, it's a real Pittsburgh store), to local touches like the use of that city's blue - and - white - tiled Buhl Building.

A trip to Kathmandu in a desperate search for some kind of miracle spiritual cure puts him in contact with the Ancient One, a bald sorceress played by Tilda Swinton (a gender and ethnic switch from the comics where the character is male and Asian; Swinton's Ancient One is of Celtic extraction) who by turns torments and trains him in the arcane ways of the mystic arts.

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.

Setting off from the dynamic he achieved with Brandy Burre in «Actress,» Greene finds an inherently compelling way to explore the psychological and emotional implications behind portraying the arcane and everlastingly sad Chubbuck.

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.

If successful, this lawsuit will remove the tenure, seniority and arcane dismissal statutes from the California education code and render them unconstitutional, thus making it easier to get rid of incompetent and criminal teachers while outlawing seniority as a method of teacher - retention.

The attorneys cite three categories of laws that are being challenged: the state has put a moratorium on new magnet schools, «arcane and dysfunctional» laws that govern public charter schools and the state's inter-district open choice enrollment program that penalizes school districts that accept students from inner - city school districts.

The arcane (but key) details in these types of research reports can often require a fair degree of trust from readers who lack technical methodological expertise.»

Instead, they use the arcane calculations based on BookScan numbers which don't track sales from every outlet.

He explores arcane knowledge from the works of Darwin to James Joyce and David Attenborough to Sherlock Holmes, in addition to telling his own wild, don't - try - this - at - home adventures in humorous and compulsively readable prose.

With only a battered wall clock, her dead mother's gold ring, and a barnyard full of miserable animals to call her own, Bess is forced to make her way in a deceptively hostile world, tracing her father's path with arcane maps at the local subscription library and shrinking from the attentions paid to her and her aunt by their peculiar neighbor Elmer Jackson.