After another abuse scandal in 1992 in Fall River, Mass., bishops in the United States pressed the Vatican for an alternative to the slow and arcane canonical justice system.
Thomas, in contrast, wants to spend the money revamping a slew of arcane tax rules on foreign-source income that U.S. multinationals complain put them at a disadvantage when competing internationally with companies based in other countries.
Pennsylvania has a whole slew of arcane laws (they still have the state stores that Iowa got away from during the first Branstad administration), but my favorite is that they apportion liquor licenses based on population.
Classic reference books like Strunk and White's "Elements of Style" and William K. Zinsser's "On Writing Well" are thorough sources for writers of both fiction and nonfiction, but their focus on grammar and other supposedly arcane topics makes them slow going.
XCode's is an unstable, slow thing built on top of the arcane gdb.
Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's strategy for Trump was to "get on the bill" and only then decide what the bill might look like, with no chance ― for arcane procedural reasons ― to slow it by filibuster.
None of the Democrats at the rally got into the arcane details of how they could slow down Trump nominees.
But just how arcane is the question that drives this slow-burning, atmospheric horror-thriller set in contemporary London.
But the real impediments to competitiveness (issues such as a highly centralized, bureaucratic state, overly legalistic micromanaging of the economy, an inefficient public sector, a political system beholden to powerful interests, a justice system which is painfully slow in meting our justice, an inefficient tax agency, an arcane education and training system) were never fully addressed.
When a spectator's plastic bag caught Armstrong's handlebar last week, sending him to the pavement, the leaders slowed down to wait for him to recover, one of the arcane niceties of the sport.
