Sentences with phrase «quite circumscribed»

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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.

To make such a distinction requires a carefully circumscribed definition of health, one quite different from the famous definition once given by the World Health Organization: «a state of complete physical, mental, and social well - being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.»

But it was one thing to recognise that the meaning of home should not be too strictly defined or circumscribed, and quite another to suggest that the expression could cover land over which the owner permitted or caused a sport to be conducted and which would never, in any ordinary usage, be described as home.