Nothing circumscribed their activities on that raid except their own good senses, which the authors of the Amendment deemed insufficient to justify a search or seizure except in exceptional circumstances not here present.
"In our view and in the view of other delegations, this would have circumscribed NGO activity," said the senior U.S. official who briefed reporters traveling with Rice.
Nor are concerns about the laws circumscribing intelligence activities: Trump is a man who has complained that the C.I.A. isn't allowed to torture people.
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.
A church in California that is under investigation by the Internal Revenue Service for possible violations of laws circumscribing political activities by churches has decided to deny the agency's request for documents.
One can only imagine what they would make of the "implied" powers discovered by modern politicians, who circumscribe the activities of private industry, award public funds to favored businesses and otherwise make political and economic life indistinguishable.
But because the lectures by Mr. Miller were incorporated into the curriculum before Harvard put in place rules circumscribing such activities by professors, the law school's 800 or so students, the first of whom are to graduate next fall, will continue to benefit from his insights.
Some of this tension may actually stem from the fact that the exercise of realpolitik by China puts it on top, and outmaneuvers western firms that have had their activities circumscribed in such countries due to sanctions, reputational or political risk.
The limited evidence also means that it was difficult to determine the extent of health systems support, for example, whether it was circumscribed to those activities that directly support the mandates of the GHIs, or whether they sought to support the health system more broadly.
