Sentence examples for the peculiar rules from inspiring English sources

The former vice-president's post-election attacks on Obama are bad form, of course, under the peculiar rules of Washington politesse.

But it turns out that a company can actually book millions of dollars of profit on such a deal, thanks to the peculiar rules that govern pension accounting.

The peculiar rules of the US Senate have long allowed individual senators to single-handedly block or frustrate legislation, for example with long, filibustering speeches that run out the clock on the allotted time for a bill.

In the unlikely event that it does and Swift manages to win an acquittal, the peculiar rules of the tribunals still permit the administration to hold him indefinitely in solitary confinement as an enemy combatant.

She bowed her neatly plaited head on cue, trotted diagonally across the sand, did the jogging-on-the-spot thing, the skipping thing, the rhythmic boogying thing, the controlled trotting thing: in short, Rafalca did everything that the occasion and the peculiar rules of the dressage demanded of her.

Adam Ruben again, making fun of the peculiar rules behind the scientific writing style.

The conundrum of umpiring is neatly posed by the peculiar rule of the knee-to-shoulder strike zone, which Mr. Weber calls the sole instance of a playing area that is demarcated only in the minds of officials.

The Counting House, 12noon to 22 Aug Here are a couple of peculiar rules about the Edinburgh fringe show.

For the sake of computational efficiency a few peculiar rules were deliberately ignored, however.

Under the peculiar counting rules of the START Treaty, the 20 nukes that a B-52 bomber can carry are considered only a single nuclear weapon.

Trump needs delegates, which are doled out according to peculiar rules for how each of the 50 states and a few territories vote.