Sentence examples for being circumscribed from inspiring English sources

The intrinsic value of this global project is being circumscribed by the expansion of intellectual property rights over genomic DNA.

In 2014, at a forum at the University of Chicago Law School, Comey contradicted Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder by endorsing the idea of the "Ferguson effect" — the notion that crime rates in America were rising, in part, because police were being circumscribed by activist groups, such as Black Lives Matter, which used video evidence to document violent abuse of citizens.

Kafka's sense of being circumscribed by a wall of Brahmsian noise can be viewed as an acute understanding of the limits of tonality itself; limits that at precisely this time were being pushed up against by Kafka's composing compatriots – in particular Leos Janacek, who some four years later was to become an associate, if not exactly a close friend, of the ubiquitous Brod.

The other way in which sovereignty is being circumscribed is through European integration.

Showing no signs that they were hafted to handles, yet being circumscribed with sharp edges, handaxes were probably used to process plant materials and to skin and butcher animals.

When all features were considered together, the pathology features identified by the Bayesian LASSO regression and the Cox proportional hazards models were: being circumscribed; having extensive intraductal carcinoma; having lobular growth pattern; and not having extensive sclerosis (all P <0.02).

The intimacy is circumscribed.

Pizza deliveries are circumscribed.

But their activism was circumscribed.

That responsibility cannot be circumscribed by statute".

At first Mark's role was circumscribed.