Sentence examples for arcane today from inspiring English sources

But the distinction seems slightly arcane today.

"Usufruct" sounds rather arcane today, but its simple meaning applied to climate is that we hold the Earth in trust for our children and grandchildren.

They included a charge of conspiracy under an arcane 1875 law, which carried a possible life sentence.

But an arcane 1789 law, called the Alien Tort Statute, permits just such lawsuits to be heard in federal courts if brought against individual defendants.

The precedent for the order was an arcane 1942 case, ex parte Quirin, in which Franklin Roosevelt created a military commission to try eight Nazi saboteurs who had infiltrated the United States via submarines.

The precedent for the order was an arcane 1942 case, ex parte Quirin_,_ in which Franklin Roosevelt created a military commission to try eight Nazi saboteurs who had infiltrated the United States via submarines.

D. Graham Burnett, a history professor at Princeton, details an arcane 1818 legal battle that began when Samuel Judd, a New York candlemaker and oil merchant, refused to pay for state inspection of three casks of spermaceti oil — insisting that it was not fish oil, subject to state certification, but whale oil.

Here the picture is clouded by an arcane 1936 pricing law, the Robinson-Patman Act.

Half of our pet peeves could seem equally arcane by 2109 — and we don't know which half.

"Father's Arcane Daughter" (1976) recounts what happens when a girl who was kidnapped and presumed dead 17 years ago reappears to find her mother long dead and her father remarried, raising a new brood.

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