GOBBLEDEGOOK

A car is a predecessor of a second car if a third car is a predecessor of the second car and the first-mentioned car is a predecessor of the third car (including a case where the first-mentioned car is a predecessor of the third car by another application or applications of this paragraph) - Income Tax Assessment Act 1936, section 82KTJ(4)(b)

A wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin - Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, defining `gyroscope'

Optimisation is used to maximise outperformance under forecast return scenarios - A review of investment managers

The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power. - Judith Butler, professor of rhetoric and comparative literature at the University of California at Berkeley, in a 1997 article in the Diacritics journal entitled Further Reflections on the Conversations of Our Time

Non Co Terminus Agency Boundaries: It will be up to each partnership to agree internally how it can best tackle the difficulties which would be thrown up by a lack of co terminusity. The goal should be for every partner to configure its output in such a way as to maximise effectiveness without promising the individual agencies wider strategic goals. - The United Kingdom Home Office's guidance notes for the Crime and Disorder Bill 1998

Given the within year and budget time flexibility accorded to the science agencies in the determination of resource allocation from within their global budget, a multi-parameter approach to maintaining the agencies budgets in real terms is not appropriate - Department of Finance

Superannuation contributions surcharge transfers - common reporting errors: There are a number of common errors that arise when reporting transfers. These errors cause reverse workflows. Listed is the common errors that are occurring and an explanation of how to correctly report transfers. - Australian Taxation Office

Through focusing on the company's objectives, Critical Success Factors (CSFs) and risk profile we can determine an optimal audit/review approach and resource requirements and skills to ensure maximum value is realised from the function. - Letter from a leading firm of accountants to a client

The inputs from the private sector are an available paradigm for the public sector in establishing parameters and providing an ongoing overview. - From the world of politics

... the hours of non-hours work worked by a worker in a pay reference period shall be the total of the number of hours spent by him during the pay reference period in carrying out the duties required of him under his contract to do non-hours work - A United Kingdom Department of Trade and Industry paper

The integration of Microsoft Mail with HP DeskManager allows customers of HP DeskManager to migrate their desktops to Microsoft Windows while leveraging their existing investments in an enterprise-wide messaging backbone. - Press release from a computer company

With regard to the reference in our letter of 1st February to provision by Metropolitan Branch of `nil entry cash list sheets' in relation to other Branch payments procedure with the aim of avoidance of sequence numbering of cash lists and the month end issue by that Branch of Confirmation of Amounts Collected on Behalf of Your Branch form (546-730), it has now been decided to not proceed with this arrangement. - Circular issued by a public authority

One motive or complicating factor in relation to these failures in prudential standards may, of course, be of the kind of personal, social, domestic links that we've described flowing over and having an impact in relation to dealing with the persons in the capacity as a borrower, when there is a personal, domestic basis to the relationship that may have a causative effect in relation to how that borrower is assessed from the terms of prudential banking standards, or how the borrower's investment banking transaction is assessed from its prudential viewpoint. - Susan Crennan QC, addressing the Tricontinental Royal Commission

The delineation and separation of the systems and procedures functions in the transferred components and their proper relocation require further detailed analysis. Also the appropriate locations and certain other specified functions which are currently located in the systems and methods area require further evaluation. These remaining subsidiary issues are under active consideration by the taskforce and further decisions in these areas will be announced with the issuance of subsequent re-organisation memoranda. - A report by the re-organisation taskforce of the United States Social Security Administration

GRAMMAR

Sometimes a sentence can even be grammatically correct yet utterly confusing, as when four negatives are used - for example:

That does not indicate that we do not have a responsibility not to discourage women.