Should new categories replace the many obscure orders of merit and chivalry?
These obscure orders give effect to ministerial decisions and simply come into force within 40 days unless revoked (in either House) by "negative procedure" – an almost unheard of occurrence.
BBC said it had taken legal advice that handing over these details to the Commons committee would be a breach of data protection rules – but MP invokes obscure parliamentary order that could force the disclosure.
It was held in the clubhouse of some obscure fraternal order on a desolate street in Eureka.
According to a Washington Post summary of the process, the new president, who has never worked for a government before, needs to figure out who should fill about 3,800 temporary government jobs, many of them obscure, in order to keep the executive branch humming along.
The tools ostensibly used to enforce the law are increasingly obscured behind a screen of private companies, non-disclosure agreements and obscure court orders binding the tongues of the few who could say what's going on.
That doesn't bode well for their capacities to crack more obscure symbolic orders.
The late pits and the modern sebbakh digging have obscured the order of the older walls and the area is not yet fully excavated.
So, when I'm not straining to decipher obscure drinks orders (the English ones sometimes the most bewildering - "seggsonzebeesh", "longailandaisteee"…) there is always an opportunity to chat away to the locals.
