Thousands of voters called hotlines complaining about inaccurate voter rolls, malfunctioning machines and bewildering new rules.
The Europeans called the arrangement a "condominium," but the ni-Vanuatu, or local population, called it "the pandemonium" because of the two post offices, two jails, two separate school systems and bewildering driving rules, with cars using the right side of the road on one part of the island and the left side on the other.
Today, however, considering how much effort and money American companies expend on keeping a competitive advantage by figuring out which loopholes to exploit from the bewildering array of rules now in effect, they might not entirely oppose reform.
In the process of managing cross-border shipping, Fitzgerald suggests that "there is a bewildering array of rules issued by more than 200 sovereign nations.
Although acusmata were collected already by Anaximander of Miletus the younger (ca. 400 BCE) and by Aristotle in the fourth century, Zhmud (2012a, 177-178 and 192-205) argues that very few of these embody specifically Pythagorean ideas and that it is difficult to imagine anyone following this bewildering set of rules literally as Burkert argues (1972a, 191).
Over the years, the frequency of ballot initiatives has increased, resulting in a bewildering set of rules that restrict not only budgetary decisions but also administrative actions.
To be sure, the additional primaries would greatly compound the folly if they were scattered at random from March through June, and with rules of bewildering variety.
Because there are no student test scores with which to evaluate over half of Tennessee's teachers — kindergarten to third-grade teachers; art, music and vocational teachers — the state has created a bewildering set of assessment rules.
The rules bewildered parishioners, who feared they might be stymied in filing their appeals.
