Sentence examples for circumscribed conventions from inspiring English sources

There is some debate as to whether or not the poems by the trobairitz represent genuine feminine voices, since they worked within the highly circumscribed conventions of the troubadours.

The candidate has up to six weeks to get the job done.The presidency in Israel is a largely ceremonial position, circumscribed by law and convention.

Although it was considered vulgar to hound a debtor on New Year's Day, this convention was circumscribed by another which allowed the creditor to pretend it was still the preceding evening by continuing to carry a lighted lantern on his chase.

Brought to this country against our will, forced to provide "free labor" in some of the most brutal and inhumane conditions known in human history, mercilessly circumscribed by all manner of law and convention and now; in this age, incarcerated in disproportionate numbers in this nation, black people still remain strangers that are rarely welcomed.

Shored up by strong corporate profits, companies are sending more employees to conventions, meetings and industry events — gatherings that were more strictly circumscribed when the economy sank.

The a priori kind of knowledge claims expressed in exact knowledge was circumscribed to the analytic, voided of universality and necessity and deflated by Schlick and Reichenbach to the character of definitions and conventions (following Poincaré).

The intimacy is circumscribed.

Pizza deliveries are circumscribed.