Sentence examples for peculiar system from inspiring English sources

The most important derives from the peculiar system of electing an American president.

The next president will be chosen in March by a peculiar system that combines party primaries and the general election.

The peculiar system of development of early Roman law, by annual edict and by the extension of trial formulas, gave the Roman patrician legal expert an influential position.

So you have a peculiar system where distillers buy barrels, store them with sherry bodegas, who sacrifice some of their wine to season the wood, before the now-empty butts are shipped to Scotland.

The Mafia survived and outlasted Sicily's successive foreign governments because the latter were often so despotic that they alienated the island's inhabitants and made tolerable the Mafia's peculiar system of private justice, which was regulated by a complicated moral code.

Just enough Iranians voted in this election to show backing for their country's peculiar system, with its uncomfortable balance of power between the popular will and the will of God, represented by the supreme leader.

Peculiar systems, which would lack relevance for conventional diagnosis, are very useful in homeopathic (remedy) diagnosis.

That's because the poetry world, like most areas of American life, has its own peculiar celebrity system — and if the rewards of that system rarely involve gift suites filled with swag from Jean Patou, they remain tempting enough to keep grown writers hustling.

ABOUT 2,000 teachers would probably leave through attrition; 4,000 others would go according to a peculiar seniority system that is based not exactly on how long individuals have been in the system but on the scarcity of their teaching licenses.

It goes beyond our own peculiar parliamentary system.

The peculiar Lycian system of matrilinear descent is clearly evident in the texts.