Thus, in the time-honoured tradition of all good parents, we have decided it is better to circumscribe his activities and curtail his life chances than to risk revealing our weakness.
Better to formalise and circumscribe their role.In his eulogy, Lee Hsien Loong made clear that his father's continued presence in the cabinet was not friction-free.
The range of adjustment of energy supply is limited, so the traditional approach of adjusting supply to meet the load and get better economic performance is circumscribed.
Tribes that have preserved their native tongue and circumscribed their membership also run better timber ventures and housing projects, says Miriam Jorgensen in a study published in 2000.
In overall, better results were found by the Minimum Circumscribed Ellipse criterion and also when using the damage parameter related with the shear stress computed by the Minimum Circumscribed Ellipse in the modified non-linear criterion proposed by Carpinteri and Spagnoli.
Both of these putative genera are readily circumscribed morphologically but molecularly they are deeply nested within clades that are more inclusive and equally or better supported statistically; continuing to recognize these traditional, morphologically circumscribed genera would leave a 'plesiomorphic rump' of one or more paraphyletic and/or polyphyletic genera.
Popular culture can energize us and awaken us to our better selves, which is why totalitarian societies always seek to censor, circumscribe or control it.
Meanwhile, the kind of fiction we are "allowed" to write is in danger of becoming so hedged, so circumscribed, so tippy-toe, that we'd indeed be better off not writing the anodyne drivel to begin with.
She argued that the current climate of offence easily taken, safe spaces sought and identities fiercely guarded was in danger of meaning that "the kind of fiction we are 'allowed' to write is in danger of becoming so hedged, so circumscribed, so tippy-toe, that we'd indeed be better off not writing the anodyne drivel to begin with".
