Sentence examples for circumscribed action from inspiring English sources

"I propose approaching the individual child soldier through a model of circumscribed action.

A minority position has argued, in an attempt to 'reimagine child soldiers in international law', that child soldiers have 'circumscribed actorship' ([ 47]:98): "I propose approaching the individual child soldier through a model of circumscribed action.

As the attorney Lucie, Françoise Fabian nearly steals the film — in large measure because her part is tightly circumscribed, her action narrowly defined, and its limits channel her cool intensity to a focussed flame.

Based on frequency, health behaviors can be classified into ongoing or repeated behaviors (i.e., seat belt use), intermittent behaviors (i.e., annual influenza vaccination), and circumscribed preventative action (i.e., a new vaccine or a new screening test) [ 28].

It sticks to the facts and circumscribes its action within the space of a week or so, telling the middle portion of a much longer story.

Still, it takes nerve to circumscribe the action of a novel so drastically, and one imagines Robinson reading Gilead back and, with a sudden plunge, thinking what does this amount to?

In all other instances, viral proteins will affect the host network only to a certain extent and possibly circumscribe their action to specific branches or modules.

That remains the rationale for the highly circumscribed workplace affirmative action programs of today.

The options for emptying the prison entirely are circumscribed, with executive action the only real alternative if legislation can't be changed.

The game is at its best when you are circumscribed in your actions -- when, for example, you are prohibited from killing anyone or when you must kill someone before he has a chance to press an alarm.

Brian Quinn, former executive director, Bank of England: "By choosing to announce its preference to retain sterling as the currency of an independent Scotland, the current Scottish Government has effectively surrendered its freedom to determine monetary policy and severely circumscribed its freedom of action in the area of public finance.