Sentence examples for arcane changes from inspiring English sources

Almost 100 practices around the country could go to the wall within months because of arcane changes to the way money is allocated, the Royal College of GPs says, as it calls for an emergency bailout.

The first year was marked by widespread frustration, as volunteers tried to get their heads around the arcane changes in, say, the health care bill as it meandered its way through Congress, while simultaneously being urged not to attack members of their own party who wavered on the agenda.

This arcane change is actually highly significant.

Behind the arcane change in wording is part of a radical alteration of American arms control strategy.

WASHINGTON — One of the biggest revenue-raisers proposed by President Obama in negotiations with Congress is what he describes as an arcane change in the tax treatment of business inventories — things like steel, groceries and oil.

In the United States, however, investors seemed less cheered about a deal emerging from the Group of 20 than about an arcane change in American accounting regulations that would make it easier for banks to defer writing down the value of their most troubled toxic assets.

Among the sweeteners leadership is handing out is a seemingly arcane change to a Medicaid funding formula that appears to be an attempt to help rural districts in New York.

Equifax also could get another benefit in an arcane change to the bill designed to open competition for credit scores used for mortgages purchased by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which are under federal government conservatorship.

Property and construction companies are prominent among those heading for the Novo Mercado.Property lending doubled in 2006, partly because of lower interest rates and partly because arcane rule changes made it safer.

The fate of Lever House and the city's proposal, which has generated support from many in the real estate industry and criticism from community groups as it moves through the approval process, illustrate how arcane zoning changes can not only reshape the city's skyline but enrich lucky property owners.

Philip Clapp, president of the National Environmental Trust, a conservation group, said that the Bush administration is working on both formal regulations and a series of arcane procedural changes that have the effect of centralizing executive authority and making it difficult for Congress or a subsequent president to undo them.