Sentence examples for circumscribe time from inspiring English sources

As Tilly writes, they circumscribe time and space, limit the number of actors and actions, situate all causes "in the consciousness of the actors," and elevate the personal over the institutional.

Still, it's hard to read his luminous and horizon-expanding "Age of Wonder" without feeling some sense of diminution in our own imaginatively circumscribed times.

The dates of these contemporaries circumscribe the time of Ashoka's reign; combined with the earlier Greek synchronisms, they afford a firm foundation for the correlation of Indic and Mediterranean events.

Performance art is also often circumscribed by time — if you don't get there at a certain appointed hour, you may miss it.

It cannot be circumscribed by time and refuses to limit itself according to the expectations of others or even myself.

Outbreaks are usually circumscribed in time and attributable to a point source of infection which can be identified in the environment [ 4- 8].

But because the goal is circumscribed and time-limited, it becomes possible for people to put out a greater effort to achieve it than is possible on a continuing basis.

For the most part, I keep the onslaught of extraneous information at bay by circumscribing my online time.

Nevertheless, this society was not "feminist", nor was fin' amor, which exalted women while at the same time circumscribing many aspects of their lives and behavior.

At the same time it circumscribed his administrative powers to those tasks directly involved with the financial function.

As with Hilgard's time-limitations, ludic reading is circumscribed by space and time -- it is reserved for a particular place, like a favorite chair, and a favored time, such as right before sleep.