Sentence examples for obscure orders from inspiring English sources

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.

His wife thinks of the problem as "a hijacking of some obscure order of the body, the frightened soul inside the runaway train of mindless matter, peering out from the conductor's car in horror".

Some of the greatest vintages of the Middle Ages can be traced to another more obscure order of celibate (though not teetotal) knights, founded at the onset of the Crusades.

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.

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.

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.

More than 250 of such groups signed a statement last month saying that "falsehoods" about sex abuse perpetuated by conservative lawmakers were causing the needs of rape survivors to be "obscured in order to push a political agenda that does nothing to serve and protect victims and potential victims".