Sentence examples for idiosyncratic system from inspiring English sources

Under the rules of Israel's idiosyncratic system, the 34 parties running in the election are barred from buying television time, but are entitled to seven minutes of free airtime on each of the three main television channels.

Playing for ties through 60 minutes — and the automatic point that comes with it, win or lose, under the N.H.L.'s idiosyncratic system — seems to be the Oilers' new modus operandi.

Before the longlist was made public, if you wanted to know which books were in contention you would usually be able to find out by having a discreet lunch with Martyn Goff, the charming and mischievous prize administrator who used to operate his own idiosyncratic system of leaks, withholding and revealing in equal measure.

It's an idiosyncratic system that only she can make sense of.

Like many large libraries, Widener classified its holdings according to its own idiosyncratic system (the "Widener" or "Harvard" system) until the 1970s, when new arrivals began to be classified according to a modified version of the Library of Congress system.

Instead, we have a range of idiosyncratic systems based on nothing more than the idiosyncratic views of a few officers and councillors.

The native East Coaster in me found his Boston-inflected announcements comforting, if monotonic, and I was impressed by his holistic grasp of the city's idiosyncratic systems of transportation, electricity, and water.

Our idiosyncratic political system doesn't work that way.

The island's idiosyncratic "junket" system helps to bring rich Chinese to Macau.

It was labelled "H-56," in accordance with an idiosyncratic filing system.

Despite its efforts to accommodate North Korea's idiosyncratic political system, China was apparently caught off guard by the recent developments.