Sentences with phrase «in arcane»

Lawyers are notorious for communicating in arcane language non-lawyers do not understand.

They will succeed in attracting what they, in arcane fashion, consider the best and brightest, but in all likelihood they will not keep those associates for long.

But when that palls, when you think that you've got a lock on what pretty near every word means, except for all those chemistry nonsense words of course, you might want to have a look at The Phronistery, a website specializing in arcane English words.

Even the job which law schools supposedly do well, which is to indoctrinate impressionable youth in arcane legal reasoning, can actually get in the way of running a law firm, because law schools teach students how to identify issues or problems, but not how to solve them.

-- Please let me know what you do think about the missing sink before we dig down further in the arcane of numbers.

Its okay with me that models that have not gone through some sort of semi-rigorous V&V effort are used to bicker back and forth in arcane journals.

And in 2010, at Cancun, nations agreed on the 2 - degree warming goal, couched in arcane language: that the world recognizes that emissions cuts are needed, «with a view» of limiting temperature rise to 2 C.

He might be very knowledgable in arcane computer - related subjects but his knowledge outside that is shallow at best but he acts like it isn't and substitutes what he believes are educated guesses for actual knowledge.

I can see why research might be useful in this arcane area, but why is the US Government imposing regulations that appear to end up costing homeowners both money and aggravation?

Absorbingly eerie in their arcane interiors and radiant colors, each room installation compliments an equally disorienting video on view.

Secondly, their drawing styles were improvised, fugitive, rejecting of the abilities of a traditional skilled hand, and came soaked in arcane social histories, whether of surfing, skating, hoboing, or folk music, typography and design.

Themed around opening nights, he makes tongue - in - cheek reference to the art world in arcane and witty fashion.

Playing a demo game back at 4TG earlier this year and reading various comments from the developers reveals a very specific idea: Fleet Battles is intended for fans of the Halo franchise who have never really dabbled in the arcane world of tabletop gaming.

Most other retirement planning calculators are written in some arcane programming language where you can't even see how the numbers are generated (AKA code - driven).

SPE's annual and semi-annual reports are a good source of investment ideas for those interested in some arcane securities.

Deep in the arcane annals of political doings is the Electoral College, the much - misunderstood institution that casts the actual ballots to elect a U.S. president.

I was reading it years ago, long before Joanna actually came out with her first published book in the Arcane thriller series.

Clear, concise with excellent direction on good paths to follow - and bad paths to avoid in the arcane world of authorship and publishing.

That was followed up with an exploration of how humans experience and compensate for acceleration and jerk (the unsettling change in the rate of acceleration) and a Jinba Ittai - inspired lesson in the arcane art of driver's seat adjustment.

In the continuing effort to save the public - school system, it is easy to become so caught up in arcane policy matters that the realities of the classroom are forgotten.

Those impetuous Russo brothers have once again delighted in the arcane by Tweeting this mysterious photo which some believe may be the vault Thanos keeps his gauntlet stored.

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.

The meaning has always been in the arcane, in the inscrutable, in the transcendental.

As I toured the desert recently with some of the men who specialize in the arcane art of detonating nuclear weapons, it occurred to me that the Americans who mastered plutonium had plenty in common with the smiths and chemists who first mastered iron, bronze, copper, and steel.

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.

He said the large, automatic increases in funding are contained in arcane regulations and something he was told is called «permanent law.»

If he refuses, then they have every right to block everything in every arcane way they can, refusing to stand by as bad laws are frogmarched through without the scrutiny and safeguards of a second chamber.

It is the latest twist in an arcane but notable episode in New York City politics, and the Working Families leadership said it viewed the outcome as a vindication after years of innuendo about improprieties.

Mr. de Blasio argued for less restrictive balloting and petition laws, and called for «free legal aid» for candidates less versed than him in the arcane intricacies of City election law.

Though the final details of their Lordships» decision are yet to be out, unlike the two lower courts before it, the Supreme Court, perhaps itself buried in arcane legality, has all but buried the card reader as a force in sane elections!

No, there is no one in New Zealand who is not secretly an expert in an arcane sport or outdoor activity.

However, the overwhelming growth in exotic ETFs means investors risk losing themselves in arcane ETF details at the expense of ignoring the big asset allocation decision.

Swift, unlike ex-banker McGee, has spent his career in this arcane field.

Without burying you in the arcane world of cost accounting, I'll lay out a simple yet effective approach.

Not exact matches

And that billboard was, at the time, one of the most visible examples yet of how even the most arcane aspects of the cryptocurrency craze are now bleeding into the «real» world — accompanying a wave of interest in more «mainstream» digital currencies like bitcoin.

This isn't uncommon in the music business, given the often arcane system of paying some fees to publishers, some to artists, some to distributors and some to owners of a «mechanical license» or limited right to reproduce — all of whom can be different entities.

At the time, TD was among the Top 10 banks in the structured - products market, a business built on arcane financial instruments that shift risk between balance sheets and was ultimately a compounding factor of the financial crisis.

It's a fairly arcane argument over whether Google's design of Android to be compatible with apps written in the Java programming language (now owned by Oracle) was «fair use» or not.

VW's wrongdoing has more in common with the arcane algorithms and opaque schemes at the heart of the Wall Street's financial crisis than with the dangers of faulty gas pedals, ignition switches or airbags of previous recalls.

It's an arcane legislative procedure that before this year had been deployed but once, under President George W. Bush in 2001, to overturn a Clinton - era regulation designed to combat repetitive stress injury.

These may seem like arcane governance issues but they can make a big difference in how a board is run — and how well it acts as an effective control of a company's executives: in this case, both the executive chair and the CEO.

Webb does not put much stock in those financial literacy tests, either, since they often focus on arcane issues that have little bearing on the basics of saving money.

One of the knocks on AWS is that though its services are powerful and come in an attractive pay - as - you - go offering, they are also arcane and complex for non-techies.

While he was still there, though, the array of arcane skills and knowledge at his command led several colleagues to conclude that Mr. Szabo was most likely involved in the creation of Bitcoin, even if he didn't do it all himself.

Volkswagen's emissions scandal has more in common with the arcane algorithms and opaque schemes at the heart of Wall Street's financial crisis than with traditional automotive recalls

The converse worry is that a corporate culture emphasizing ethical values may find employees engaging in well meaning activity that may inadvertently expose the company to legal liability or punishment for failing to observe the often arcane, technical requirements of the law.

The rise in yields as prices fall makes more German debt eligible for ECB purchases, under its own arcane rules.

If he were operating in the 21st century, I doubt that he would need a blackboard for complex mathematical formulas, or the arcane jargon of a modern expert — whether...

The «mystery thriller» is the basic template for his own fiction, but in his stories, the word «mystery» takes on its arcane, almost its pre-Christian connotations of ritual and spiritual power.

Prophecy belief seemed eminently logical because it was neither arcane nor mysterious but rooted in an authoritative document and confirmed again and again by the daily newspaper.