Sentences with phrase «on arcane»

Academic institutions used to hire guest lecturers on arcane or cutting edge topics, but overall, colleges were wed to the professor as the expert.

A few weeks ago I woke up on a Saturday to a small explosion on my Twitter feed (when you write on an arcane topic like legal operations, small explosions seem significant).

Instead, the majority of private equity firms rely on arcane and outmoded staffing approaches that worked in the 1980s.

Step into the boots of Sir Galahad himself in The Order: 1886, a graphical stunner that explores an alternate Neo-Victorian London and features fantastical weapons based on arcane technology.

Right now, many municipal systems run on arcane or antiquated software.

Ask yourself why they continue to base their sales figures on the arcane hand - wavium that is BookScan.

Richard Mattei's Lancia fully deserved its public accolade, and I am delighted to be able to freely endorse its win without cavil or commentary on the arcane practices that have for so long determined Pebble Beach award winners.

For example, online providers in states that still count academic credit in time must report out student learning based on these arcane metrics, rather than fully unleashing the more flexible pacing inherently possible in an online course or module.

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).

The Congresswoman was complicit in getting a legitmate contender an anti war candidate thrown off the ballot on arcane technicalities.

On the surface, the dispute centered on arcane state laws governing real estate tax breaks and mayoral control of the city's public schools.

It wastreated by Ian McKinlay, an amiable hoof specialist who was transformedinstantly into a backstretch celebrity, conducting his own daily pressbriefings on an arcane subject that Dutrow repeatedly dismissed asinsignificant.

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.

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.

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.

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Many airlines around the world feed into this need for prestige by offering arcane top tiers, the best known of which is United's Global Services, which is said to be based not on miles flown but how much you paid for your tickets.

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.

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.

He paused then, at the thought of earthly sorrows, Our sickly past, incarnadine tomorrows, The myriad things that whistle arcane truth To please old minds and to instruct raw youth, And bore down on his broken knees to pray For such a world that had so much to say.

Like that bible laying on top of my stack of science books next to the computer so I can look up these arcane references people throw out?

The stage is set, and what follows is Eco at his best — arcane debates on the medieval problem of universals or the poverty of Christ interspersed with monks thrown off balconies and poisoned by secret books.

Prior to gaining this arcane knowledge, it was not uncommon for me to spend 20 - 30 hours per week on just Greek or Hebrew.

How bout people just get with the times, cut the charade and find something else to do on Sunday morning that isn't arcane, make believe and segregated.

This question might seem especially arcane to the non-theologian, but this disagreement on animal futures impacts our very theological understanding of creation, as Hart demonstrated with his discussion of the necessity of creation for humans to be able to «see» God.

Chiefly for two reasons: first, it is unencumbered by the arcane Hegelian speculation on which the analysis of consciousness rests in The Essence of Christianity; second, it does greater justice to the religious sense of encounter with an other.

Surpassing even the considerable efforts of Bradley, McTaggart, Royce, James, Peirce, Bergson, Alexander, Lotze and a host of other important practitioners of the metaphysical art, Whitehead developed a truly novel and original metaphysical stance that is sufficiently complex so as to border either on the profoundly esoteric or the arcane and obscure.

But as we will see in the chapter below, the way these ceremonies are conducted today borders more on the magical and arcane than on the way originally practiced or commanded by Jesus.

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.

, but to imply that they had ANY effective knowledge, let alone some kind of specialist, arcane knowledge which really worked is not based on any evidence at all.

I was all over Urban Baby when my first child was a baby and I felt alone and isolated and unhappy and needed the adrenaline hit of arguing with strangers on the internet about arcane details of baby care and NYC playground politics.

Conservative director fills vacancies on committee Taking advantage of arcane election law, executive director of the Rockland County Conservative Party Ed Lettre has filled approximately 68 vacancies on his Conservative Committee, the Rockland Board of Elections confirm.

One obvious demand is electoral reform, although differing opinions between parties on the precise preferred option suggests an arcane argument over which variant might dominate early negotiations.

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.

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.

It appears Bercow is now, more than ever, granting Labour spurious SO24 debates, Points of Order and even advising them on how to use arcane parliamentary procedures to whack the government, in an attempt to shore up the support he needs on the Labour benches.

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

Yet, on the other hand, in the midst of economic crisis, the diversion of resources to arcane matters of the constitution would constitute a high - risk strategy for a party keen to demonstrate its credentials as a serious party of government.

«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.

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.

So... to summarize... the Sampson vote was based on race — not anything arcane like competence, honesty and integrity.

In taking on the health care system, Mr. Spitzer is confronting the nation's costliest Medicaid program, one that helps support an expansive but money - losing hospital industry with arcane financing rules often designed to keep state aid in place, no matter the effect on patient care.

Mr. de Blasio had just been elected on a platform to raise taxes on the wealthy to fund an extra year of prekindergarten — but New York's arcane political structure required him to go to Albany for approval.

Mr. Cuomo made his demand at a meeting with Working Families officials on Tuesday and suggested that he would not even consider accepting the party's endorsement unless they agreed to using placeholders, who under the state's arcane election laws could be swapped for new candidates after the primary.

By the end of the daylong meeting in Bozeman, Stoy and Poulter have made progress on their first goal: spreading the word about this arcane acronym, BECCS.

The leaders of the U.S. and China committed their nations to the fight against global warming on Saturday when they handed arcane but momentous documents to the United Nation's top official.

Having worked on projects in Borneo, Thailand, and Latin America in the last few years, he knows that «it's the most obscure, arcane knowledge, and you lose it all when you change.»

Music based on data has the potential to reveal new patterns to scientists and get data out of the arcane language of empirical orthogonal functions, p - values and Kruskal - Wallis tests and into a language that everyone can understand.

Yet here we had His Holiness, a 77 - year - old man, who sat during six days, ramrod straight for hours on end, his legs tucked under his body, attentively following our arcane scholarly arguments.

Government funding agencies will have examples of documentation they require, many venture capital companies have guidelines on business plans, and there are any number of Web sites devoted to business education that will help you out with such arcane documents as cash - flow summaries, Gantt charts, and the like.