And the system, opaque and sometimes capricious, seems designed to stifle political innovation by entrenching the hegemony of the main political parties and marginalising new parties and those without MPs.
5 Caesar was informed of these events; and fearing the fickleness of the Gauls, because they are capricious in forming designs and intent for the most part on change, he considered that no trust should be reposed in them.
MySpace and it's capricious community of design junkies are case in point, often changing their layouts almost as much as their favorite band of the moment.
In the structure's YouTube video, Jantzen talks about the constraints of contemporary architectural spaces, how immobile structures and projects are, in a sense, stuck in time, unable to adapt to the capricious nature of design trends and stylistic taste.
The market is capricious, and not designed to provide for households that struggle to provide for themselves.
As bloggers have noted, this case will be one of the first tests of a new Texas law designed to discourage capricious libel suits by putting the burden on the plaintiff (Wakefield in this case) to prove that the defendants' speech has caused damage before the suit can go forward.
It was easy to exploit weaknesses in the design; match wins felt capricious.
I was also thinking a lot about functional architecture and design (because of the capricious heating system in my apartment building, and the old windows that leaked warmth away instantly).
Our bodies simply weren't designed to cater to capricious whims.
"If it had not been for the Parisian designer, we in the West would be hanging rags in our windows," said the design historian Gail Caskey Winkler, author of "Capricious Fancy: Draping and Curtaining the Historic Interior, 1800-1930" (University of Pennsylvania Press, $85).
