Sentence examples for by arcane from inspiring English sources

And, they believe, the public will not be aroused by arcane fights over "aggregate" ceilings.

"Never constrained by arcane conundrums", that was him.He was not bitter.

Mandelson said he did not want to get distracted by "arcane academic theory".

The company, which was brought low by arcane union working rules and a strike, had been trying to restructure through bankruptcy since January.

They long for a time when really important ideas such as the power of redeeming love will be unencumbered by arcane quibbles about sex.

Like his peers Richard Powers and William T. Vollmann, Wallace wrote big, brainy novels that were encyclopedically packed with information and animated by arcane ideas.

This gesture — heartbreaking in its propriety and dutifulness — also has a great deal to do with a by now arcane notion of fidelity: Hardwick had chosen Lowell, and she accepted responsibility for that.

To receive matching public funds in the primary -- up to $250 for every donation up to the current federal limit for individuals of $2,300 -- candidates agree to abide by state-by-state spending limits set by an arcane formula: $200,000 plus cost of living adjustment since 1974, or the voting age population multiplied by 16 cents, whichever is greater.

Mr. Kennedy had hoped to have his legislation approved today, but it was blocked by an arcane procedural maneuver by the Senate minority leader, Trent Lott of Mississippi, who remains angered by the rejection last week of the nomination of a friend, Charles W. Pickering Sr., to a federal appeals court.

Though there are competing technologies available for those interested in building a wireless network, there is one in particular with the most momentum behind it; this technology is most widely known by an arcane name given by engineers at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, which developed its specifications: IEEE 802.11b.

At issue in lawsuits filed in federal district courts in Delaware and Boston are three Proxim patents on ways to manufacture wireless networking products using a standard known best by its arcane name 802.11b, created by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.