Sentences with phrase «well circumscribed»

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A well - subsidized political campaign is demanding that governments are to be tightly circumscribed fiscally and financially.

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.

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.

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.»

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.

It is particularly difficult to control because it does not grow as a round, well - circumscribed mass — instead, because astrocytes» main job is to travel among the neurons, it is able to send out fingerlike projections throughout the brain, essentially creating tiny, multiple «highways» that spread malignant cells with extreme efficiency.

«Slavery by Another Name»: As slavery came to an end with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, a new system of involuntary servitude took its place with shocking force, brutalizing, terrorizing and ultimately circumscribing the lives of hundreds of thousands of African Americans well into the 20th century.

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.»

Red, hairless, well - circumscribed, sometimes raised lesion usually on the leg; if chronic, will drain

Acral Lick: red, hairless, well - circumscribed lesion usually on forearm; cats: symmetrical hair loss, sometimes ulcers, on abdomen, groin, along the back

In Robert Motherwell: Opens at Andrea Rosen (May 1 — June 20, 2015), the viewer can see what the artist does best, which is tease out meaning from a highly - circumscribed format that consists of a three - sided, linear rectangle, open at the top, juxtaposed against a monochromatic ground.

At the least, referenda should pose concrete questions which invite an answer giving political institutions a well - circumscribed mandate.

[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.

The Supreme Court explained that this circumscribed approach to appellate review is rooted in the importance of finality in litigation, rather than any notion «that appellate court judges are somehow smarter and thus capable of reaching a better result.

In recent years, decisions by the U.S. SupremeCourt and other developments in the law have circumscribed the once broad protection afforded to patent holders as well as remedies available to patent holders.

But the theory of our system is that, on net, having a frustratingly long, circumscribed, and public process will tend to weed out most of the bad ideas and impulses that would otherwise result from unconstrained decision making, even if well - intentioned.