0 complicated and difficult to understand:
rules of byzantine complexity
1 of or having to do with the ancient city of Byzantium or the Eastern Roman Empire
Perhaps more nuanced, even byzantine, regulations covering such cases in all of their detail might be preferable in some respects.
Dry functions both as a self-consciously byzantine act of storytelling and a pointed commentary on the real conditions of women in rock.
Will he review the criteria now used to prioritise safety improvement schemes, because to some of us they seem both byzantine and counter-intuitive?
As my noble friend said, perhaps it is a little byzantine.
As we all know, the mathematics of the rate support grant is byzantine in the extreme.
Individual bankruptcy, not in all, but in many cases, is humiliating, punitive, obscure, almost byzantine and extremely costly.
An almost byzantine structure of separate regulations applies in this huge, all-embracing industry, and many of them overlap.
There is also a danger that we shall end up with a byzantine pay structure.
