Sentences with word «circumscribed»

Life narrowly circumscribed by legal limitations enacts a physical, emotional, and financial toll.

In most European constitutions governmental powers to dissolve Parliament — the central representative institution in a parliamentary democracy — are carefully circumscribed in order to prevent their abuse for partisan advantage.

Within the broad and complex system of verbal - visual research, which comprises more circumscribed areas of investigation such as concrete poetry, visual poetry and narrative art, the experience that has expanded its horizons furthest has without doubt been that of Conceptual Art.

They witness to the fact that God is not circumscribed by the walls of religious sanctuaries and that God is concerned with the processes and activities of daily life.

But it also said that leaving the EU could give the UK greater flexibility — albeit at the cost of greater complexity - if it chose to vary the tax system, particularly in the area of Value Added Tax (VAT) which is currently heavily circumscribed by EU directives.

This containment is, as Ruby comes to learn, primarily psychological, but she may learn this lesson at her cost: this is a closed community that discourages escape, and although its inhabitants are free to leave, they live heavily circumscribed lives.

For if God is conceived as caring for persons as persons, and so in the end as caring for personality everywhere, no boundaries of state or race can be thought of as circumscribing his relationship with souls.

Life narrowly circumscribed by legal limitations...

But somehow while rats and mice enjoy a reputation for staying within a fairly circumscribed area and making their way back home with alacrity, once hamsters depart slightly from their familiar surroundings they inevitably become distracted and wander aimlessly.

At some future time we are unlikely to be content with constructing tightly circumscribed game worlds.

Her works begin with realistically rendered landscapes of nature, executed in classical painting techniques reminiscent of the mid-19th century American landscape painters, which she then circumscribes with an uncomfortably enforced abstract geometry.

Decisive, on the one hand, is the history of the origin of the myth; it falls into the period which circumscribes the first attempt at fixing the image, on the other.

Mikus, like Ann Truitt, worked throughout the 1960s within a highly circumscribed set of variables.

Look away from the bubble and see municipal politicians such as Sir Richard Leese, Labour leader of Manchester City Council, doing their best to use the heavily circumscribed powers of local government to gain real results for their populations.

Our posts are within a tightly circumscribed subject.

Educators and policymakers criticize NCLB for circumscribing curricula by encouraging the practice of teaching to the test.

Just as in the case of «art», the scope of the word «process» in s. 2 (d) is somewhat circumscribed by the provision of s. 28 (3) excluding a «mere scientific principle or abstract theorem».

Such circumscribed problems were not the focus of this investigation,» the author notes.

Fences, gates, and grills operate simultaneously as objects circumscribing the countryside and geometric patterns charting the canvas surface, and a number of paintings contain diagrammatic lines evoking a viewfinder, grid, or in the case of Central, a vanishing point.

Why is he so bent on circumscribing his own political ambitions in everything spiritual?

These defining properties of each field both advance and circumscribe understanding.

As Luhmann notes, the New Testament canon itself seems to reflect a pattern of faith that is more closely circumscribed by religious texts than is the Old Testament.

It is because it is organised by a principle of Mind, Intelligence or Wisdom that it is open to investigation by our own rather more circumscribed minds.

My use of «principalities and powers» refers to the idea that social reality is an integration of spiritual and material forces that circumscribe human existence (PAP).

The best analogy may be Chopin's Etudes, explorations of styles and modes with sharply circumscribed means.»

They are commonly well circumscribed, freely movable and non-painful.

The concept of TPACK has been cited thousands of times, and has been influential within a narrowly circumscribed circle of faculty members whose professional careers focus on some aspect of emergent technologies.

Even with a more circumscribed approach, the authors of the reanalysis still found that charters are more segregated than traditional public schools — which themselves are extremely segregated.

They also seem to be willing to accept some propositions with highly circumscribed causal contingency — for instance, that reducing class size increases achievement (provided that it is a «sizable» change and that the reduction is to fewer than 20 students per class); that Catholic schools are superior to public ones in the inner - city but not in suburban settings.

While Lorna, Deep Contact, and other works (including many not in the exhibition) are structured around open - ended narratives, what they presciently anticipated is perception and experience skipping along the internet's seemingly infinite set of links — seemingly, because what Hershman Leeson's work also shows is how circumscribed choice (even on the web) can be.

Following the financial crisis of 2008, the government passed new laws circumscribing how lenders could be compensated, and public pressure provided an additional incentive for lenders to reign in the practices that had made them rich during the housing boom.

Tertullian recognised that, as martyrs, women were on par with men, but when it came to church organisation and the duties and functions therein, «he gave them a considerably more circumscribed role,» and «never includes women in a hierarchy of the church.»

So, in a far more circumscribed way, does «Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo - Kuti» at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in SoHo.

The only way to close the achievement gap is to psychologize education and circumscribe what it means to know.

But instead of attending more closely to these circumstances in order to think seriously about the changing place and politics of free speech in contemporary India, its proponents have lapsed into an anachronistic narrative about circumscribing the reach of religious dogma in social life.

(21) Theologically, this means circumscribing God within a private sphere, viewing the church as a closed community, and putting a quest for certitude in place of authentic faith.

But the metaphysical order of reality is just thereverse of the order of human knowledge: what first comes into it is a certain act of existing, which because it is this particular act of existing, circumscribes at once a certain essence and causes a certain substance to come into being.

Your power to appointment Ministers is clearly circumscribed within the confines of article 78 and 256 of the Constitution.

The same forces that direct our aesthetic impulses in life also circumscribe our death, and if Lum's newer work is more grim and difficult, it is of a piece with, and a logical conclusion to, the previously mischievous, sweet way of investigating our imagined relationships to our real conditions of existence.

Grieve says it's a quasi-judicial issue and that Hunt is therefore quite circumscribed in what he can do.