Sentences with phrase «more circumscribed»

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.

«Spatial intelligence refers to the ability to represent the spatial world internally in your mind - the way a sailor or airplane pilot navigates the large spatial world, or the way a chess player or sculptor represents a more circumscribed spatial world.

The country may be pursuing the ideal of free college, but so far the practical effect has been more circumscribed and presents unintended consequences.

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

One discovers that the anti-rationalism at the heart of the modern age has become increasingly radical, that the role allowed to reason has been even more circumscribed.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 charges.

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.»

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More importantly, however, the work exemplifies that sorting through all of the categories one might use to circumscribe a work of art is a messy and mercurial business.

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.

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).

Older fires are less easy to circumscribe owing to the incidence of more recent fires that have obliterated their tracks.

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.

Real single people live bigger, more interesting, and more meaningful lives than those very circumscribed topics would suggest.