Sentence examples for arcane on from inspiring English sources
To be attributed the concept arcane, on this view, it suffices that S uses the expression 'arcane' by and large correctly, 'in keeping with its content' – if she is committed to her community practice of using the corresponding expression 'arcane', and this practice determines that 'arcane' expresses arcane.
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As Elizabeth Moore writes: "Apartment development is complex anywhere, but it becomes truly arcane on Long Island, where multiple layers of government exercise authority but information about the process and its rules is often difficult to uncover... What is known is that land zoned for apartments is vanishingly scarce on Long Island, the home of the nation's first single-family suburbs..
Americans now follow the arcane goings-on in Congress, from health care mandates to debt ceilings, with an attention and a fury that would have baffled and bored citizens in the 20th century.
WASHINGTON ― All 22 female U.S. senators on Wednesday lambasted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky). and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y). for inaction on reforming arcane policies on sexual harassment involving lawmakers and staffers.
This seemingly arcane dispute took on fresh relevance yesterday as new details emerged on the timeline of last Thursday's breakdowns.
He cited hurdles to growth: chronically high unemployment (and its high social costs), stagnant productivity in southern Europe and a financial sector focused more on arcane innovation than on support for the small start-up businesses that drive job creation.
The legal case may turn on arcane determinations of what constitutes a document prepared for litigation, which normally cannot be subpoenaed by the opposite side.
They make $41,000 to $68,000 a year, trudging through the city, filling out work sheets on clipboards and returning to anonymous municipal offices to do arcane calculations on a computer system that was installed when Edward I. Koch was mayor.
Propulsion and control were arcane verging on impossible.
Islam described a strategy that ranged from penny stocks to options and the most arcane products on Wall Street: derivatives.
