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How to use the word arcane in a Sentence?

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We shut down 10,000 jobs with the Keystone Pipeline here in the United States of America and then they permitted the Russian pipeline to continue to be built that will threaten the heart of Europe's energy infrastructure and of course you were referring to the cyber attack on the Colonial Pipeline, president Trump and our team were very clear about what we would do in response to cyber attacks. We changed. It's a pretty arcane idea, but we changed the NSPM, the rules that permitted us to respond to these attacks. I hope that the Biden administration will use the tools that we provided.

Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is someone who's spent her whole career explaining one of the most complex, arcane areas of law to law students, that's how she engages with voters. If she gives an answer and someone has a follow-up, she digs right in. If someone doesn't understand her point, she tries another way to explain it.

Katie Porter

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Given USTR's smaller staff they do seem to look to ITA's analysts for support, this is pretty arcane stuff.

Jim Gilmore

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We learned a lot about loyalty, we learned a lot about some very arcane rules in, obviously, both the Senate and in the House. So, it's been certainly, for me, it's been a very interesting experience.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

We learned a lot about loyalty, we learned a lot about some very arcane rules in obviously both the Senate and in the House. So, it's been certainly, for me, it's been a very interesting experience.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

This was an interesting period of time. We all learned a lot, we learned a lot about loyalty and we learned a lot about the vote getting process. And we learned about very arcane rules in both the Senate and Pass House.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The popular vote overwhelms the rules usually, but in these close elections, everyone pays attention to these arcane rules.

Larry Sabato

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We're going to show that Tote knew the El Faro was a defective ship that they knowingly sent into the path of a hurricane. We'll be fighting to expose the Limited Liability act of 1851 as the backward and arcane law that it is.

Kurt Arnold

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

To respond to the very, very slow steps toward progress that are being forced by these lawsuits, to impede that progress with the possibility of locking athletes into this arcane system that does not represent their interest, I think is deeply worrisome.

Ellen Staurowsky

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The need for effective regional action to combat the crisis is clear, yet our leaders have consistently failed to act, they hide behind the arcane and ultimately destructive policy of non-interference, repeating the demonstrably false claim that the Myanmar government's persecution of Rohingya is an 'internal affair'.

Charles Santiago

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Perhaps it was a twinkle in his eye, but Governor Pataki has said stated clearly and repeatedly that, but for our nation's arcane campaign finance laws, he could very well be a candidate for president right now.

George Pataki

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Kahlil Gibran

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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