Sentence examples for a convoluted set of from inspiring English sources

JPAC commanders are often hidebound by a convoluted set of rules that can be unnecessarily cautious and lead to slow work.

The chancellor made a meal out of a convoluted set of measures that will slow down the rate of increase in the price of petrol, and, meanwhile, lop a penny off.

Two years later, they were signed by George Martin's Parlophone label, not because – as previous accounts have suggested – he fell hopelessly in love with their irreverent northern wit, but thanks to a convoluted set of agreements that climaxed with Martin being handed them merely as a sort of punishment for having an affair with his secretary (soon to be his second wife).

According to Professor Hales, then, assessment assessors don't believe that grades sufficiently measure student outcomes, which means that they have put into the practice a convoluted set of instrument designs and procedures to measure "real student success".

In reality, this was what Wolfson describes as "a bastardisation of a national pay scheme" which included a convoluted set of criteria for job evaluation including factors such as shift patterns and the number of hours worked in a week.

"What we end up with is a slightly convoluted set of concepts and little uniformity in the way we all think about the concepts or classify the data," said Professor Larry Hajime Shinagawa, director for the Center for the Study of Culture, Race and Ethnicity at Ithaca College in New York.

Many corporations maintain the Civil Rights Act of 1964 adequately protects employee rights, and argue the bill would confound an already convoluted set of rules.

Public companies report their book earnings to the Securities and Exchange Commission using Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and use a separate, equally convoluted set of rules to calculate taxable income for the IRS.

The case raises critically important issues for a free society, and the Fourth Circuit's convoluted set of opinions is too confusing to give proper guidance to other courts, the executive branch, or the people.

The convoluted set of circumstances that gives Snakes On A Plane its idiot charm means you wouldn't bet on it containing any transferable skills for dealing with a venomous snake attack in the real world.

Her latest investigates narcissism and fear of intimacy through a typically convoluted set-up involving lost love and a confession of murder.