Sentences with phrase «own arcane rules»

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.

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

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.

Just have to say «well done to the Republican Party for figuring out how to steal elections from the people using arcane rules designed to keep rural landholders in charge.

But until then, we'll have to deal with the arcane rules and a fake salary cap, and baseball will be that much less fun.

Ain't necessarily so, not so simple, it's complicated — objected four readers who know a lot more about the arcane rules for school meal reimbursement.

Two exceptionally engaging new MPs starred: Labour's Sarah Champion and the Tory Charlotte Leslie nervously explored Parliament's arcane rules and practices.

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.

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

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.

From the arcane rules, to the steep ballot requirements and a quasi-professional underfunded electoral machinery controlled by the two - parties, for the two parties — it is nearly impossible for concerned citizens to run for office, said Babinec.

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.

Vicky Krieps plays Alma, a woman who becomes the celebrity dressmaker's latest model - muse - assistant - lover, and who soon begins pushing against the arcane rules and restrictions enforced by...

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.

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.

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

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 - building.

Or are you somebody who likes to master arcane rules in an effort to beat the system, even if it takes time?

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.

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 policy has also led to the creation arcane rules that make it exceedingly difficult for anyone who has not been intimately involved in the left - leaning, utopian Wikipedia community to make accurate edits that will remain published.

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

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

I won't go into the arcane rules for specialties or other odd rules for deeds.

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.

Isn't that the real image and concern behind these arcane rules?

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

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

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

Not exact matches

The hurdles were high, however, and the rules were arcane, making the technique impractical for most businesses.

The lawmakers blocked an effort to scrap the rules using the Congressional Review Act, an arcane legislative tool that the GOP has deployed liberally this year to kill Obama - era regulations.

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

But what complicates this equation is the fact that California's 10 sections operate as independent fiefdoms, each with its own rules and regulations, and each with its arcane calculations to determine who goes in postseason.

She wants closed police precincts reopened, but also wants to end arcane police work rules that cost taxpayers a fortune without improving safety.

And since they are so arcane, it's hard to demonize a rules vote.

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 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.

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.

But due to arcane European Commission bureaucratic rules, the ERC was unable to take action.

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.

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

She had explanations for the more arcane application rules.

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.