The sophistication with which neighborhood groups wield San Francisco's arcane land-use and zoning regulations for activist purposes is one of the very unique things about the city's politics.
As he spots each new pair of wings, his thoughts fly off, usually to land on some arcane bit of butterfly knowledge.
In a process being repeated across the country, inhabitants of Llanfairpwll and Menai Bridge have found themselves at the front line of efforts by the Land Registry to drag arcane property rights into the 21st century by collecting a database of the entitlements held by lords of the manor.
There your children can learn art from graffiti on state-owned land and discover the arcane language of zoning and density such as 'floor area ratio' or FAR.
Currently, all airlines at La Guardia are charged landing fees based on an arcane formula: the historical cost of providing airport facilities and infrastructure divided by the weight of the aircraft.
The leaders, which included brothers Ammon and Ryan Bundy, are far-right land-rights advocates who believe in arcane legal theories that the federal government doesn't have the constitutional authority to own federal wildlands.
The people in both towns are Ibos Nigeria's third-largest group but the ancient dispute centres on an arcane argument over control of a small patch of land.
Like many land battles, the fight over the swell is about arcane differences in land-management law.
He serves as a kind of referee after a whale is landed, dividing the catch among crews according to arcane rules that reach back to prehistory.
