Sentences with phrase «for circumscribing»

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

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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.

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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.

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.

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).

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»).

It seems to be quite important for the religious and mental life of men that concepts of deity do not too narrowly circumscribe the requirements of imagination.

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).

But the third commandment prohibits the use of «God» for entrapping, circumscribing or trying to control what the Divine One will be and do.

(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.

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.

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.

«In the same way, the use of force (and so doing harm to others) by soldiers is heavily circumscribed and controlled by international laws -LSB-...] For example, recent international peacekeeping missions have been heavily criticized for not allowing soldiers to intervene when witnessing rape, murder, and even genocide (e.g., in Rwanda).&raqFor example, recent international peacekeeping missions have been heavily criticized for not allowing soldiers to intervene when witnessing rape, murder, and even genocide (e.g., in Rwanda).&raqfor not allowing soldiers to intervene when witnessing rape, murder, and even genocide (e.g., in Rwanda).»

But Randi Spivak, director of public lands for the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity in Tuscon, Arizona, said that by circumscribing the highest level of protection only to certain areas, the administration is displaying «more political science than biological science.»

«It seems to be a circumscribed manifestation of a widespread, older belief that has been labeled «infant determinism,» the idea that a critical period early in development has irreversible consequences for the rest of a child's life,» the researchers wrote in their analysis.

It's too circumscribed and polite for the story it's telling, curiously deficient in the unexpected.

The Dolby 1.0 mono sound does what it must, granting room to the James Bernard score and allowing for subtleties in the foley work, like the skreeee of Frankenstein's scalpel circumscribing a skull.

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.

JG: I think we really have to be cautious about pushing kids into making choices too early, as well... It's not so much that kids make clear choices early on, but [Linda Gottfredson], who's a well - known theorist in this space, she talked about how kids circumscribe and compromise as they consider careers that might be possible for them.

The point is that comic books provide a ready - made template for breaking down your story into well - circumscribed chapters or «beats.»

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.

Gary Woodley, Impingement No 66 «Cube Circumscribed by Tetrahedron — Tetrahedron Circumscribed by Cube» 2017, commissioned by the Creative Foundation for Folkestone Triennial 2017

For him, the few objects in the studio and the white ground of the paper are the world of the picture in its entirety, and to this we must add Freud's sometimes dramatic cropping of the picture surface — something that circumscribes the character — another form of line much like those of each etch.

The etchings give a heart - warming insight in to Freud's charming mentality and affection for his sitters through carefully crafted lines that circumscribe personality.

But at the same time that Walsh seems to be pursuing perfection, he consciously calls into play the irregularity of geometric folk art, not least in his use of a slight asymmetry to the otherwise uniform series of shapes; in Auditorium, for example, the band of lines that circumscribes a series of squares - within - squares is a bit wider at the top than at the bottom.

While working under Ceausescu's regime, Bratescu focused on the studio as a space for self - preservation and the protection of identity: see her filmed performance Atelierul (The Studio, 1978), in which she defines the studio with gestures even as it circumscribes her movements.

The world of galleries competing for new talents in increasingly harsh art world environment creates urges for hot and hip that will attract audiences and potential buyers, almost inadvertently producing a circumscribed understanding of who can create such works.

The central black cross on a white background circumscribed by red and white circles is likely an abstraction of the Iron Cross medal for bravery, which was bestowed posthumously on Freyburg.

At least the court revised the insurer's proposed terms to circumscribe the obligation in these terms: «The defence insurer shall be entitled to require the claimant to undergo medical examination at its request upon reasonable notice being given to the claimant at any time during the claimant's lifetime, such medical examinations to be limited to obtaining a medical opinion as to the claimant's general health in order to obtain a quotation for the purchase cost of an annuity to fund the periodical payments and / or (not more frequently than once every seven years) for the express purposes of reviewing its reserve.

While the court clearly has jurisdiction to deal with issues arising out of a compensatory award, especially where there is provision made for leave to apply, it is difficult to reconcile such a limited and circumscribed power with the imposition on claimant victims of a mandatory requirement to undergo medical examination after a court has:

Should the lawyer for the lender be carefully circumscribing the terms of the opinion that can be given, in light of what is known about the rents and / or the lawyer's personal comfort with this area of the law?

[1] For best courtroom adaptation of a work of fiction, the award goes to the applicant, Clarissa Olenka Szakacs, who shamelessly feigned what she thought was necessary to convince the court to circumscribe access by the respondent to their almost - six - year - old daughter.

I said recently to the GLS Administrative Law conference that the role of government lawyers is a constitutionally significant one providing, as we do, risk - based advice which circumscribes the legitimate basis for government action.

It is simply that «the search for wisdom is not to be circumscribed by national boundaries.»

These generally circumscribe the judge's enquiry but, for a mediator, they represent only part of the story.

The distinction is made for the reason that a judgment of a foreign court can not operate outside of its own territorially circumscribed jurisdiction without the medium of the English courts.

Ordinary time extensions should not have been treated in the same way as situations where sanctions for non-compliance were pre-determined in either the court rules or orders, circumscribing the ability to extend time limits without resort to the court.

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.

Leaving aside the devolution issues, according to the government it was for the claimants to show that Parliament had circumscribed the use of the prerogative power.

In instructing the jury, Justice Mew articulated a kind of immunity for receiving confidential information from whistle - blowers (without the use of unlawful means) and drew upon the defamation defences to circumscribe the intrusion tort as follows:

When presenting resumes for government employment, however, you have no such «play,» since the requirements and duties for government jobs are very carefully circumscribed — allowing no deviation on resumes for federal positions.

Efforts to validate structured interviews for classifying psychiatric disorder have been remarkably circumscribed.

If you purchase one smart home device you may find that your choices for other gadgets could be circumscribed if you want them to all work together.