Sentences with phrase «with arcane rules»

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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