Sentences with phrase «in arcane language»

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Caputo worked to build public sympathy for MercExchange by reducing an arcane legal case to «kitchen table language,» painting eBay as a corporate monster and finding reporters and opinion writers to publish stories about the matter in the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal.

Definitions for the type of tax vehicle described in the table will be useful for readers not familiar with the arcane language of the tax code: Exemption refers to specified income that is not subject to federal tax.

And in all of the arcane language, policy twists and turns, distractions of untested theories, and uncertainties of a new Congress, NAESP is aggressively advancing two straightforward, transformational priorities to strengthen principals and improve schools.

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).

For people in the developed world, the arcane language and wonky procedures of the United Nations» climate change negotiations can obscure the existential threat global warming poses to low - lying islands and countries that permanently teeter on the edge of drought and famine.

Obviously, in - house counsel asking you to test some arcane point of law might see language different from a business client seeking guidance on a transactional matter.

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.