Sentences with phrase «of arcane rules»

That's because it's likely to trip over yet another set of arcane rules that limit who can be considered a cable service.

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.

With less funding, inevitably there will be less enforcement of many of the arcane rules that many feel hold back the profession

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.

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

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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.

Byzantine rules and arcane terminology have traditionally made this kind of work the domain of highly - specialized consultants.

Lobbyists and interest groups stir up public opinion demanding action this way or that; the legislators bend to the winds of this pressure; the congressional committees and their friends in the bureaucracy write the immensely detailed and arcane rules that, with little oversight, put legislation into practice.

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.

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.

That extra petition triggered an arcane rule at the Board of Elections: the entire filing would need a cover sheet, which the Donovan team never filed.

In the end, nobody was held accountable because under the arcane rules of legislative government investigators couldn't lay a finger on anybody.

He may not understand the arcane rules of the chamber.

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.

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.

Of course, under the Senate's arcane rules about a member's right to filibuster any pending legislation, that still means getting 60 votes.

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.

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.

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.

There is speculation that tenure was introduced to counter some of the strict or arcane rules relating to teacher employment in the 1870s.

They aren't a part of teacher - unionized America where hideous seniority and tenure rules and hopelessly arcane dismissal statutes are the norm.

After the first week of the groundbreaking trial Vergara vs. California in a California superior court, lawyers and witnesses talked a lot about ineffective teachers, arcane rules for dismissing them and how much money it costs.

I can't do that with Zexal; huge chunks of it might as well still be in Japanese, yet the arcane rules of the lucrative card game that's kept it alive offer some weird, obscure grounding — a skeleton of RULES — that makes it work, subconsciously, as world - builrules of the lucrative card game that's kept it alive offer some weird, obscure grounding — a skeleton of RULES — that makes it work, subconsciously, as world - builRULES — that makes it work, subconsciously, as world - building.

I've been involved in financial reporting for a large amount of my career, so even though I've never had an accounting course in my life, I've had to work with some of the most arcane accounting rules out there as an actuary, and later as an investor.

Let's see if we can not simplify the arcane complexity of the accounting rules regarding FASB 157.

If you are looking for the underlying cause of why some arcane accounting rule is an issue, this is it.

They say it's because they have mastered information that most of us find arcane: award chart nuances, airline alliances, credit card point transfer partners and ticketing rules.

You will never get that level of information at Richmond Savers, and for good reason: it's irrelevant to the 99.9 % of the population who don't have the time or energy to spend hundreds of hours sifting through arcane rules and posts trying to find the absolute best deal to fly them to the Maldives or Phuket.

A particularly egregious example involved having to learn the arcane rules and strategy of a boardgame and subsequently beating an AI opponent.

Once you have it running and bug - free, there's this whole other side to the process... which I don't think I can even legally talk about specifically, haha... but in general: every console has its own set of rules — sometimes very specific, obscure, arcane - seeming rules — that you need to make sure your game adheres to.

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.

Now that interest in the series is as higher than it has been in some time, we created this feature in the hopes of clearing some things up about its substantial history and seemingly arcane rules.

It would also force the country's organized markets to submit compliance filings within 15 days after that — again, an unheard - of turnaround in a world where minute and arcane rule changes take months, if not years, to debate and implement.

This administration includes a number of climate deniers who could try to re-negotiate the Paris Agreement, which could profoundly impact its effectiveness; in a worst - case scenario, these officials would simply try to block any action through the arcane, yet important, United Nations (UN) rules of procedure, or attempt to water down the rules and seriously risk the environmental integrity of the post-2020 world.

Meanwhile, John Taylor, a Silver Spring, Maryland, attorney and a drone hobbyist, says, «A 13 - year - old who fails to follow the arcane nuances of FAA regulations regarding recreational use shouldn't be a felon for failing to comply with rules appropriate to commercial operations.

It also puts obstacles in the path of trial that cause unnecessary delay and expense e.g. the arcane rules on setting down.

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

While citation styles in other disciplines have moved increasingly towards greater simplicity and clarity, concentrating on malleable concepts and abandoning the use of arcane bibliographic terms and obscure abbreviations, all legal citation guides continue to share and suffer from the same conceptual error: namely, that there should be a rule for every possible source to which a legal professional might refer and, better yet, an abbreviation for every source in which the reference might be found.

It starts with the Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 41, an arcane but important procedural rule on the issuance of search warraRule of Criminal Procedure 41, an arcane but important procedural rule on the issuance of search warrarule on the issuance of search warrants.

But past Monster Hunter games were often rigid, with arcane rules and worlds that felt like a series of boxed - off areas.

But security futures products are subject to an arcane set of rules and joint - registration requirements that are sure to chill the digital currency trading environment.

For two - parent families, MFIP also eliminated the arcane work - history requirements and the «100 - hour rule,» a policy that limited the number of hours a primary earner could work and still receive welfare but which had the perverse, unintended effect of encouraging couples to divorce so they could remain eligible for welfare.