Sentence examples for are so circumscribed from inspiring English sources

Even many of those who can vote do not think it worthwhile, because the mayor's powers are so circumscribed.

Never have the ambitions of the European Union been so circumscribed.

"Donald did not understand this, but then his conception of time was so circumscribed that it was astounding," O'Donnell writes.

The accounts are particularly moving because the women's lives were so circumscribed and they risked everything.

Public space, the common area for culture and expression that had been so circumscribed in my childhood, has now been vastly expanded.

But Austen's novelistic world is so circumscribed, her dramas so domestic, that these rapid accountings of daily life almost serve as rough studies.

The discussion concentrated on figuring out why the American dreams of Angie and DeParle's other subjects were so circumscribed, with such "low ceilings" as Krasny put it, and on what could be done to raise them.

The idea that God would be so circumscribed by our paltry view of morals that he has to be the god of love is to me astonishing, futile and idiotic".

This in part explains why US military action has been so circumscribed.

During the Iraq war protest on the East Side in February 2003, when more than 350 people were arrested, the movements of demonstrators were so narrowly circumscribed, and access to the event so curtailed, that matters became more chaotic than they might otherwise have been.

It is disappointing that the scope of the chapter is so narrowly circumscribed: it would have been interesting to have read how the editors saw their work alongside the challenges faced by other editors of mid-century grand opéra in collected editions significantly better developed than the one dedicated to Meyerbeer.