Sentence examples for can be circumscribed from inspiring English sources

The game's alchemy lies in creating a represented universe of fantastic speed, force, and collision, and insisting that the violence of this world can be circumscribed without spilling over into real life.

This inference can be circumscribed more or less narrowly (e.g., if all or most vertebrate model organisms share somite formation, then all or most vertebrates will share it).

A strategy assumes a place that can be circumscribed as proper and thus serve as the basis for generating relations with an exterior distinct from it.

Given later doubts about whether any theory of confirmation could provide a foundation for a theory of meaning (Quinean doubts relating to the impossibility of ruling out any facts as possibly bearing on the truth of any sentence), it remains unclear as to how the evidence-meaning connection can be circumscribed.

The answer, he believed, lay in the five Platonic solids whose faces can be composed of regular polygons – triangles, squares, etc – and which could be circumscribed by spheres whose size would increase as the number of faces increased.

That responsibility cannot be circumscribed by statute".

It shouldn't be circumscribed by the evidence.

His essence cannot be circumscribed.

His social world seems to be circumscribed by the walls of his office.

Sometimes those rights have to be circumscribed to protect other important values.

"The art world in New York continues to be amazed how this group representing a country whose population is a fraction of Germany, Britain and France and whose resources are circumscribed can be as effective and efficient as the cultural services of these other nations," wrote Lawrence Kardish, a senior curator at the Museum of Modern Art.