Sentences with phrase «circumscribed in»

A muddy red circle is circumscribed in four concentric squares of four plastery shades of off - white.

Often times the editing and fact - checking that goes into a professionally published book is circumscribed in self - published eBooks.

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.

The limited geography of the island, circumscribed in its history, too, only points to this encompassing and upholding divine context.

When the church is continually circumscribed in its existence, then the end will be near.54

When Plato acted it was probably in the belief that his freedom to act could only affect a small fragment of the world, narrowly circumscribed in space and time; but the man of today acts in the knowledge that the choice he makes will have its repercussions through countless centuries and upon countless human beings.

Recent fires are generally easy to date and circumscribe in the landscape, more particularly in the forest tundra where fire frequency, size and overlapping are greatly reduced in comparison with the same fire metrics in the zone of the continuous boreal forest (Payette et al. 1989a, b; Johnson 1992; Arseneault 2001).

Not exact matches

The near - term growth potential of a brand's business is almost entirely circumscribed by the number of people out there in the world who are already somewhat familiar with it and at least a little intrigued.

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.

As the nominating process circumscribes the range of choice to be made, it is a fundamental and outcome - determinative step in the election of officeholders.

This included circumscribing commitments covering cultural products, which was achieved through an exchange of side letters with the other parties, and reflecting elements of the progressive trade agenda of the Liberal Trudeau government, including through the change in the name of the agreement, a side letter eliciting strengthened labour commitments by Vietnam, and side letters acknowledging traditional knowledge.

If they ever floated into view, unless chapter and verse were also quoted in a very circumscribed context, they were dismissed as «liberal», «socialist», «unrealistic», «under the law», «wimpy do - good social gospel» — you get the drift.

One day my American literature professor told our class about Emily Dickinson, the quiet and reclusive woman who was satisfied to live in a circumscribed world in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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.

When, two centuries ago, your Church began to feel the particular power of your heart, it might have seemed that what was captivating men's souls was the fact of their finding in you an element even more determinate, more circumscribed, than your humanity as a whole.

If it no longer betrays «the freshness and vividness of original composition,» at least it bears the marks of the hard age in which it arose, reflects the circumscribed outlook of its author and first readers, and reveals most clearly the paucity of the materials at the author's disposal — especially for a presentation of Jesus» teaching.

Pastoral care, including pastoral counseling, has in it a freedom, a vocation, and a resource beyond the legitimately circumscribed domain of secular counseling.

R. G. Woolley, in a set of articles published in England during the late 1970s (while he was at Cambridge) argued that such basic attributes of a molecule as its shape must be carefully circumscribed on the basis of current theory.

Or if they have, these were gravely circumscribed — as are the Billy Graham «counseling» services, which have rigid rules in effect forbidding any natural interchange between the «counselor» and the one who has signed a card.

the Christian whose understanding of the incarnation is so circumscribed will either embrace the one (Jerusalem) and hate the other (Athens) or try in vain to unite what can only remain strange (and strained) bedfellows...

There has been much discussion whether the sociologist of religion is right in viewing his material from a special point of view and handling it according to a special method, or whether he has a more or less well - circumscribed field which he can call his own.

God is Power because in His own Self He contains all power beforehand and exceeds it, and because He is the Cause of all power and produces all things by a power which may not be thwarted nor circumscribed, and because He is the Cause wherefrom Power exists whether in the whole system of the world or in any particular part.

If he should give up those other statements in which he tries to circumscribe the competence of Christian philosophy more narrowly, the content of his doctrines would be affected very little.

p) The Pope rejects a capitalism «in which freedom in the economic sector is not circumscribed within a strong juridicial framework in its totality, and which sees it as a particular aspect of that freedom, the core of which is ethical and religious.»

But if by «capitalism» is meant a system in which freedom in the economic sector is not circumscribed within a strong juridical framework which places it at the service of freedom in its totality, and which sees it as a particular aspect of that freedom, the core of which is ethical and religious, then the reply is certainly negative.

The first person singular will often be circumscribed by expressions denoting humility while the first person plural, «we,» serves to indicate, often in sharp opposition to the outside, what the sociologist calls the in - group.

It symbolizes a unity which is not simply a formal bond that circumscribes the unfolding of individual powers in an always equal manner, but rather a process of unified development which all individuals go through together [«On the Concept and the Tragedy of Culture,» by Georg Simmel, in The Conflict in Modern Culture, translated by Peter Etzkorn (Teachers College Press, 1968), p. 28].

Long into the 19th century, corporations were circumscribed as to the amount of capital they could solicit ($ 100,000, for instance, in New York under the law of 1811); they were usually confined to a single type of operation (say, textile manufacturing or flour milling); and they were required to dissolve after a specific number of years, 20 or 30.

Nussbaum knows this too, and that is why (I think) she warns that «the emotions have limitations and dangers... and their function in ethical [and political] reasoning must be carefully circumscribed.»

The Jewish Talmud, in the Mikva'ot tractate, states that when a Gentile wishes to become a Jew, he must be instructed according to the 613 commandments of the Torah, must be circumscribed, and must go through a Mikvah, that is, be baptized.

Even so, there are some basic outlines that circumscribe academic communities: their face - to - face quality, their common pursuit of knowledge and understanding, and their integral character, the sense in which the quality of the individual's thought and the quality of the communities» thinking are mutually dependent upon one another.

It sprang from a desire not to emphasize the Messianic realm but to circumscribe it; it originated in a more spiritual conception of the world's finale than could be satisfied by a nationalistic victory or by any kind of social order imaginable on earth.

We have to accept that our status and our standpoint in the totality of creation are both lowly and circumscribed.

Besides the one quoted above (Category of Explanation xviii), Whitehead also circumscribes it, in reference to Locke, as «the principle that the reasons for things are always to be found in the composite natures of definite actual entities» (Process 19).

In so doing he circumscribes the nature and role of the imagination, especially its synthesizing power, making it dependent on the understanding» (CJ 95).

15:40 - 41) women are expressly mentioned for the first time in Mark as followers of Jesus; on the other hand, however, their relationship to Jesus is circumscribed with the key word diekonoun («served»; NRSV: «provided for»).

To be fulfilled in human love is to have one's freedom circumscribed (not destroyed) by the other's freedom.

And in some cases, the geographical factor may circumscribe a particular contextual theology.

That is, are we willing to accept that in some sense we are always comprehended by a circle of meaning that surrounds us and which we can not get around, a circle to which we can contribute new meanings but which we can not ourselves circumscribe?

In fact, two gems from Pascal's Pénsées would make for perfect epigrams with which to begin and end Kugel's book: «The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me» (which sums up his argument about the absolute «smallness» and «silence» that circumscribe our existence and lead us to transcendence), and, «The heart has its reasons, which reason can not understand,» (which sums up his argument against rational reductionism).

We should ask: Is the individual unknowable in itself, or just unknowable in all its relativitiesby the circumscribed mind of man?

In process philosophy, therefore, the omnipotence of the Creator (as the original ground of being) is no longer deemed absolute, but appears circumscribed and indeterminate.

Nevertheless, there are some who want to read Barth's nonfoundationalism in a more circumscribed way.

Our ideas and our consciousness can be immersed in such things; they can not circumscribe them.

(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 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.

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.

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

In particular, the defense hoped to circumscribe a conversation between Silver and Reid during which Silver noted the inclusion of more information on his disclosure form in early 2010, a few months after the sentencing of former Queens Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio on corruption chargeIn particular, the defense hoped to circumscribe a conversation between Silver and Reid during which Silver noted the inclusion of more information on his disclosure form in early 2010, a few months after the sentencing of former Queens Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio on corruption chargein early 2010, a few months after the sentencing of former Queens Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio on corruption charges.

That cloud represents the Aristotelian idea that all the elements are circumscribed by the moon's sphere, with everything beyond uncorruptible and unchanging, even in movement.