Sentence examples for circumscribed by time from inspiring English sources

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

As an issue, Afghanistan is now politically circumscribed by new troop reinforcements and a fairly specific time frame for their success that leaves an evaluation until at least the end of 2010.

By that time, however, praetorian jurisdiction had been circumscribed by the emperor.

At the time, he was contemplating a retirement circumscribed by kidney failure and the need for dialysis.

The director, Michael Curtiz, even manages a lovely little camera movement to underline the emotion of the scene, no mean feat at a time when film technique was still severely circumscribed by the encumbrances of early sound recording.

Though I'd been there dozens of times in the past, my experience had always been circumscribed by whatever menial activity I was there to perform.

The peoples living in the California culture area at the time of first European contact in the 16th century were only generally circumscribed by the present state boundaries.

At all times, I was aware of the pull of gravity, of that vast and empty atrium, circumscribed by interior balconies.

That responsibility cannot be circumscribed by statute".

Their existences were circumscribed by poverty.

It shouldn't be circumscribed by the evidence.