Sentence examples for a convoluted formula from inspiring English sources

On Wall Street, most bankers are paid a convoluted formula of cash and stock that's determined by committee.

What is currently under discussion is a convoluted formula in which the six powers could meet with Iran to discuss the agenda, but not substance, until Iran froze its nuclear activities, the official added.

Based on a convoluted formula that takes into account inflation and the average price of meals sold in schools, certain districts — like New York City, where lunch is sold for $1.50 — did not have to raise prices this year.

The version moving through the Senate has problems of its own, chiefly a convoluted formula that would allow the states to report average test scores, thus obscuring the true achievement gap.

Even as lawmakers are reducing the number of Congressional districts, they are proposing to increase the number of districts in the State Senate, to 63 from 62, in a move Republicans say is required by a convoluted formula in the state's Constitution, but which Democrats say is a ploy by the Republicans to improve their chances of keeping a majority.

He then devised a convoluted formula to match players based on statistical performance levels including walk rate and isolated power (a hitter's ability to generate extra-base hits), as well as such variables as position, body size, and handedness.

That way, the sky's the limit!" Later, the release cites a convoluted valuation formula put forth by a finance professor at the fictitious Grenada State Schnook School of Business.

The reason: in the final hurried days of negotiations toward a new collective bargaining agreement nearly two years ago, the convoluted formula for determining the amount of money paid to players given the tag was changed.

Expect more such convoluted formulas.

Bricken said she can't be sure yet whether convoluted formulas and limits will allow one of her developer clients to offer tens of thousands of square feet in Chatsworth to large-scale businesses, or just 350 square feet for micro-cultivators.

While this complex mechanism of collecting bids from insurers, and passing them through an intricate formula, may seem like a convoluted way of determining subsidy levels, there are few alternatives that the government could consider.