Sentence examples for and circumscribed by a from inspiring English sources

In the Ottoman empire, the status of Christians and Jews was at once underpinned and circumscribed by a regime that saw religion as an all-important distinction.

Bear in mind too that their origins (provincial, unschooled, impoverished, and circumscribed by a magnificent but harsh and hostile landscape) foreclose the chance that they might ever have the breadth of vision to escape their situation.

The star in question, however, when some billions of years had passed since its birth, and its companions began to rarefy, was not satisfied with its destiny and became restless — to such a point that its restlessness became visible even to those of us who are "very" distant and circumscribed by a "very" brief life.

We recommend that, instead of creating a unified national system, existing land rights should be formally recognized and circumscribed by fair procedures.

This new journalism ecosystem is still in its early days, and too many people are still circumscribed by a single story.

The flag has a deep blue background, and a white silhouette of the twin towers circumscribed by a pentagon.

Where big-budget films have traditionally been circumscribed by a single theme, these films are circumscribed by a single ZIP code.

Yet a thirty-year friendship of unusual intimacy was circumscribed by a subject that they never discussed.

A future Fed chairman's power could "be circumscribed by a more formal policy-making process," Mr. Feroli said.

The entire 1.7-mile oceanfront is circumscribed by a walk that's lined with well-kept rose gardens, benches, piers and tidy strips of sand.

King Louis XVI was still on his throne, but his powers were being circumscribed by a constituent assembly.