We wonder whether there aren't perhaps rather too many of the beautiful people running the Trust, perhaps sustained by the arcane procedures for electing them.

Using an arcane procedure and careful vote counting, Democratic abortion-rights supporters won a skirmish today over whether Federal employees' health insurance could cover abortions.

So he resorted yesterday to arcane parliamentary procedures to try to make his his death prediction into a death sentence.

Hidden within the arcane procedures of this exceptional piece of Euro-obscurantism is the question: what is farming for?

But many critics of the board have long faulted it for other reasons, including its interminable meetings, arcane procedures, unpredictable recesses and behind-the-scenes deal-making.

It was an arcane procedure and it was impossible to get anyone to sign off on it, so we had to remove it.

The social rituals and arcane procedures are mastered quickly enough.

For most people, the network's arcane procedures and protocols made it too difficult to navigate.

But from wacky to sincere, the cumulative effect was an on-air crash course in voter attitudes and arcane procedures.

Earl Ferrers, whose closest friends would not call him an intellectual, was unfamiliar with the arcane procedure of the House.