Sentence examples for circumscribe and from inspiring English sources

It simply forbids the city from practicing "content-based or viewpoint-based discrimination in deciding which ideas it will celebrate and which it may marginalize, circumscribe, and restrict".

The regulation allowed city officials to practice "discrimination in deciding which ideas it will celebrate and which it may marginalize, circumscribe, and restrict," he wrote.

Outside the precinct, reality proved more difficult to circumscribe, and striving for control became something of a political act in itself.

Since 1990, he writes, we have needed "to circumscribe and crisply redefine each of the fields of music, precisely because the questions being scrutinized in each are not the same".

He immediately ceases being part of a group whose purpose is to block and circumscribe and becomes part of a group whose purpose is to help advance the president's agenda.

This new "women's culture" embraces not only Web sites and online magazines but also books, films, television series and entertainment networks that circumscribe, and then pander to, so-called women's interests -- an admittedly narrow range that runs the entire gamut from cosmetics to child care, from personal grooming to personal relationships.

The apparatus of the Filofax circumscribed and elevated my identity.

But these provisions are carefully circumscribed and do not usually allow change by simple majority.

Rarely, however, has a subculture been circumscribed and zoomed in on so closely.

Now, in the faux internal NHS economy, medical problems are circumscribed and priced.

To be sure, his days are circumscribed, and he spends a lot of time watching TV.