Sentence examples for a peculiar system from inspiring English sources

The next president will be chosen in March by a peculiar system that combines party primaries and the general election.

So you have a peculiar system where distillers buy barrels, store them with sherry bodegas, who sacrifice some of their wine to season the wood, before the now-empty butts are shipped to Scotland.

Unfortunately for investors, capitalism is a peculiar system.

The codex uses a peculiar system of chapter divisions, which it shares with Codex Vaticanus and Minuscule 579.

Red Bulls The Red Bulls' search for a new coach who knows Major League Soccer and its peculiar system apparently has a new focus — Juan Carlos Osorio, a former MetroStars assistant and native of Colombia who joined the Chicago Fire at midseason and led the team to the Eastern Conference final.

It will not, after all, be the first World Cup since 1950 to stage a final without a European representative, although the decisive game in which Uruguay beat Brazil 60 years ago was, strictly speaking, a group match in the peculiar system employed that summer.

ABOUT 2,000 teachers would probably leave through attrition; 4,000 others would go according to a peculiar seniority system that is based not exactly on how long individuals have been in the system but on the scarcity of their teaching licenses.

The most important derives from the peculiar system of electing an American president.

Like other upstarts, Triangle has been a successful child of the government and a peculiar socialist system, with all that has meant in political and financial support.

After Dylan moved back to New York City, in the late sixties, he was dogged by a man named A. J. Weberman, who created a peculiar translation system to "decode" Dylan's lyrics — "in Dylan's language Texas might mean 'Europe' " — and even went through his trash.

Due to a peculiar licensing system administered by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MILT), the Japanese construction industry extensively relies on a limited number of general contractors who then subcontract construction work to a multi-layered pyramid of first-, second-, and third-tier subcontractors [58-60] [58-60]