Sentence examples for arcane procedure from inspiring English sources

A spokesman for the board said that state law requires this arcane procedure.

But at a meeting last week to seat newly elected committee members, Mr. Dinerstein focused solely on arcane procedure.

Bill Frist, a former Senate majority leader, called reconciliation an "arcane" procedure that Congress has "never used... to adopt major, substantive policy change".

MacDonough is the opposite — she intentionally stays out of the spotlight, but wields enormous influence in proceedings on the Senate floor, where she, her deputy and several assistants continually advise senators on arcane procedure and a complex set of rules that few people really comprehend.

At the last synod elections, in 2010, they managed to capture a blocking third of the members of the synod's house of laity, which is elected by an arcane procedure from among churchgoers with the highest tolerance of committee meetings about nothing very much – deanery synod members, to be technical.

The Duke of Wellington, a hereditary peer whose father was stripped of the right to sit in the House of Lords 16 years ago, has been elected to the upper house under an arcane procedure invoked after the retirement of another peer.

For most people, the network's arcane procedures and protocols made it too difficult to navigate.

But the pitched battles are mostly legal, involving arcane procedures by men in wingtips.

These are not the usual EU quarrels over arcane procedures or financing.

They are presented with a monster, stitched together from arcane procedures traditionally used to adjust small-fry rules.

Democrats have eagerly filled the void with a steady trickle of measures, using arcane procedures to produce a paper trail.