Sentences with phrase «over arcane»

«4 debates over arcane points substituted for real debate of politics and values.»

Everything elase is clouding the storyline and making it look like it just a food fight over arcane technical issues.

Mr Campbell, victim of a coded kicking in the book, had counterstruck this very day, in this very newspaper, by calling Mandelson a liar, or manager, over an arcane point regarding the Lib - Lab coalition talks he attended.

Having elected Ed Miliband as leader less than two months ago, now may seem an odd time for Labour to re-open the debate over its arcane voting system.

The attitude of the religious left toward South Africa's «right - wing religious groups» — meaning the overwhelming majority of evangelicals — would matter little if the stakes involved nothing more than disputations over arcane issues of theological doctrine.

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.

To begin the rites, he speaks arcane words over various elements which will be used for the rites.

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.

At the same time, both the attack and the doctrine attacked are so arcane and abstruse as to render them inaccessible and / or uninteresting to all but a few specialists in the philosophical community, with the end result that both are, in practice, passed over.

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.

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.

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.

Already fired up by a teachers strike and a district - wide staffing shake - up, Seattle Public Schools watchdogs are sounding the alarm yet again — this time, over proposed changes to an arcane - sounding policy: the Student Assignment Plan.

Ford has done a commendable job in making the most of this arcane setup, but on broken back - county roads, the GT500's tail hops and skitters over road imperfections, resulting in a car that feels busier than it feels composed.

I think it's great these professional organizations are allowing indie authors into their groups, though I suspect over time they too will come to recognize how commercial results alone are an inadequate measure of professionalism because ultimately they'll shut out professional authors — wonderful writers — who write about unpopular or arcane topics.

Hearthstone player Mamytwink fired an Arcane Missile and it took over 40 hours for his turn to finish.

There's the clunky menus, and the many systems acquired over the years of Monster Hunter's long history that clatter around clumsily together; there are the appendages and offshoots and dead - ends that can still, despite the best efforts of Capcom in Monster Hunter World, make it all seem infuriatingly arcane.

Players ride brooms over ancient arenas, cast arcane spells and turn opponents into adorable chickens.

Created over the course of three years from 2012 through 2014, in collaboration with a community of artisans in Rajasthan, India, the large 2 - pole structures (each measuring some 10» x 18» x 12» high) transform MASS MoCA's signature Building 5 gallery into a kind of tent village, inhabited by painted human figures both supine and in motion, and emblematic symbols and signs both obvious and arcane.

So far, here in the United States, public debate over climate change has been little more than an endless series of arcane scientific and political talking points tossed back and forth on the Internet between those who believe AGW will destroy the planet and those who believe the whole thing is a massive hoax.

The tussle over prices in a decentralized electricity market continued last week, as David Roberts deconstructed the arcane world of demand response, in which utilities pay customers to cut their power use during times of peak demand.

Until now, the dispute over who could rightly claim the Arctic's resources had boiled down to an arcane debate over which of the five nations» continental shelves were connected to the region's undersea mountain ranges.

Nevertheless, this rather arcane debate over the null hypothesis has important implications for the framing of the IPCC's attribution arguments, and I hope that this exchange will stimulate debate and discussion on this topic within the IPCC community.

All of which may be true, is over my head, illustrates the arcane nature of the very mundane problem of preservation, and branches out into a hydra - headed set of issues.

«As first noted here late last night, in today's edition of The Recorder of San Francisco, attorney Cyrus Sanai has an interesting essay entitled «Taking the Kozinski Challenge» that begins, «The fiercest battle within the federal appellate courts these days is not over abortion or gay marriage, but the arcane question of whether an attorney may cite the unpublished case law of an appellate court as the binding law of the circuit.»»

Lest you think that this... interest in what's under foot is arcane, I should tell you that there are over 136,000 photographs in Flickr tagged with «staircase,» most of which it seems are spirals.

Over this time, he continued to present and write for CLE, edit practice manuals, advise on the drafting of the new Family Law Act, teach, research and publish arcane legal doctrine, practice law full time, and publish official materials for the Department of Justice.

I once had a bet with another barrister over a particularly arcane legal matter.

The entertainment and media industries are governed by arcane rules and precedents developed over a century.

I've seen what happens to many of these people in court, when they stand up and try to explain to the judge how they are «Mennonites» who can't be found guilty under the Constitution because it's a violation of their rights dating back centuries before America existed, or when they challenge the judge's right to preside over their case because of some arcane law, or that red light cameras are unconstitutional because they do not get to confront their accusers, again, I cringe, because I know what's coming.

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

In a relatively short period of time, the debate over patent reform has transformed an arcane, low - salience issue into one that sparks fierce controversy and national headlines.