Sentence examples for mysterious rules from inspiring English sources

And just occasionally, the mysterious rules by which they claim to abide look sensible rather than simply odd.

"The game delighted players with its beautifully adorned tiles, associations with other lands and mysterious rules," Ms. Martens says.

There were, among other things, long lines at polling places, botched registrations, and mysterious rules on absentee ballots.

But what all the failures had in common is that the grid -- complicated beyond full understanding, even by experts -- lives and occasionally dies by its own mysterious rules.

Pendleton, the defending Olympic champion in the sprint, already has gold from the keirin last Friday, and was only deprived of a shot at team sprint gold when she and partner Jess Varnish were disqualified for a minor infringement of track cycling's sometimes mysterious rules.

A mysterious rule operates by which a five-year-old boy, however much he enjoys his school day, is unable to expound upon it.

It told the story of the mysterious Howard M. Ward Laboratory, ruled by a reclusive, enigmatic financier bent on measuring the electrical impulses of the brain.

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Nobody ever thought much about Los Angeles's Chinatown district until 1974, when Roman Polanski embedded it deep in the pop subconscious as a dark and mysterious region where normal rules do not apply.

It often meant no more than 'they' - the mysterious people who ruled our lives, or the scapegoats for anything that went wrong.

The mysterious forces who rule it are here represented only by a cop figure (Jonno Roberts and Gutmann (a suitably creepy Matt DeCaro), the proprietor of the Siete Mares Hotel, where the town's more financially secure denizens reside.