Getting Ershad's approval, like everything here, is always a byzantine process: permission for lyrics, say, may be granted by someone in one office, only to be denied by someone in another.
Getting funding to fight the insect in the Great Smoky Mountains park was a byzantine process.
A Byzantine process, in which most members of the election committee are chosen by sectoral interests ("functional constituencies"), ensures that the committee has a majority ready to toe the line.
Instead we force them to navigate a byzantine process that now takes a year and a half or longer.
To prevent a Byzantine process from increasing the round number and view number unnecessarily, the algorithm uses two different type of messages, Init messages and Start messages.
It's a Byzantine process... which can take months.
"It's one thing for people to go through a byzantine process to get their property back," Crouch told VICE.
Accusers often get funneled through a byzantine process that ultimately leads to private settlements reminiscent of the ones that kept Harvey Weinstein's victims in the dark for decades.
As director of the fellows program Ms. Conrad will preside over a mysterious, byzantine process by which the winners are chosen by unidentified nominators, who send in letters selecting the candidates.
Daunted by the cost of hotels, the scarcity of tickets and the oppressive security, and defeated by the byzantine process surrounding visas and credentials, he made other plans.But as the games began, word slipped out that circumstances had changed: too many people stayed away.
