Sentence examples for arcane state from inspiring English sources

That's because ultraluxury buildings are assessed at ludicrously low percentages of their actual value under the arcane state laws that set real estate valuations for tax purposes.

The reason, ostensibly, was her violation of an arcane state law forbidding the sale of any device used to stimulate the genitals.

If high-stakes testing was supposed to change that, we have seen little indication of it so far in New York, where the arcane state aid formula keeps the existing inequities intact.

And others seemed to be tuning out because they were confused by the legal volleyball game of state and federal court rulings, statutory interpretations of arcane state laws and squabbling over how dimpled a ballot must be to count.

The result has been a series of patchwork remedies that have created an arcane state court system that causes average citizens to scratch their heads, wastes resources and in low-level criminal cases is derided as a plea bargain mill.

Beavers later suggested that those demonstrators should be imprisoned under an arcane state law prohibiting disrespectful behavior while the Legislature is in session.

The pact, at first glance, appears arcane: state-chartered banks must heed the regulations of their home states when operating in other states that have signed the compact.

Being incorporated means paying additional, often arcane federal, state and local taxes and filling out the forms that go with them.

But the pair of outmoded two-lane bridges, both about 80 years old, that bracket this small farming crossroads (population 294) in northeastern Arkansas are of such historical significance, however arcane, that state highway officials cannot simply tear them down.

The question, longtime State Department people say, is not whether these and other political appointees have impressive qualifications, but whether even more talented people — with better language skills, knowledge of local politics and customs, and familiarity with sometimes arcane State Department practices — could have been found within the department.

She was so damn busy -- please don't ask her to do her job, deal with the arcane State Department email system, calm down Netanyahu, and type on glass too.