With his moral authority and charisma, the pope has helped reframe climate change from an arcane set of negotiations into an issue with sweeping moral implications.
Sure, she knew a stirrup from a bit, but the thought of adhering too strictly to some arcane set of rules seemed to bore her numb.
Stott draws on the letters Trembley exchanged with his nephew Charles Bonnet and their august mentor, the entomologist René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, to bring wonderfully alive what might in other hands have read as an arcane set of events.
With such tradition and history, the team's decision to hire non-Basque riders this season, prompted by financial issues and an arcane set of rules at cycling's top level, the U.C.I.
There is reason to be hopeful that officials at the Pentagon are taking a hard look at the arcane set of rules that for decades has forced thousands of transgender troops to serve in silence or face being discharged.
The office he joined is in charge of monitoring the stock markets and making sure that companies comply with an arcane set of regulations that are intended to protect investors as they execute trades.
By manners she does not mean merely an arcane set of which-fork-to-use rules, and her books are not a guide to the social traps laid for unsuspecting arrivistes.
And without changes, tens of millions of middle-class taxpayers will have most of their tax cuts eaten away by an arcane set of rules called the alternative minimum tax.
Many explanations have been offered for the prevalence of this kind of crime: the unusually free flow of alcohol in the Crescent City; an especially deep and arcane set of territorial boundaries in a small geographical area; or an impenetrable "culture of death and violence," to use Mayor Mitch Landrieu's words.
The city's grading system uses an arcane set of comparative criteria and "curves," but the bottom line is that being small is a disadvantage, despite the belief of education experts that the most effective schools are ones with small classes.
