Sentences with phrase «circumscribed set»

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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.

Admittedly the final decisive act is the creature's, but if God has circumscribed the possibilities down to the next to last decision, the creatures can do hardly more than ratify God's set up.

Many auteur directors create films that seem to exist in pocket universes as self - contained, circumscribed and minutely thought - through as the virtual - reality environment of a computer game or the fantasy setting of a paperback trilogy.

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.

Review — The language of painting, says John Berger, «is capable of expressing spiritual experience but always within a concrete setting, always circumscribed by a certain materiality.»

Within eyeshot of Uklański's Nazis, it takes on a new resonance, circumscribing the horrors of war and setting up a dynamic that resounds throughout the exhibitions: mythos, survival, and never - forget.

Enforcing limits on the power of government, as judicial review does, and perhaps especially enforcing limits set up by federal constitutions, insofar as they circumscribe the powers of centralized governments, helps preserve foot - voting and market - choice opportunities.

Although some provinces recognize specific exemptions for reserve residents or for on - reserve purchases by Aboriginal people, the limits of provincial powers to tax Aboriginal people are circumscribed, constitutionally, by the ascendant federal restrictions set out in the Indian Act.