Sentence examples for circumscribed notion from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Rumsfeld, it has been reported, holds a more circumscribed notion of America's role in the world and shares little of Mr. Wolfowitz's enthusiasm for an expansive American effort to bring democracy and pluralism to the greater Middle East.

Instead the point was to document and analyze how kinship was understood within a particular culture, including culturally circumscribed notions about procreation.

How is it possible to sculpt one's own postmodern identity in a vibrant 21st century megalopolis when one is still circumscribed by notions of class and society imported from a long-departed traditional culture?

Margins can be either circumscribed or not circumscribed.

An alternative can be found in Cocchiarella 1986, where (λ-conv) is circumscribed by adapting to properties the notion of stratification used by Quine for sets.

Terminal City itself, of course, is narrowly circumscribed in space, and we should give up any notion that the existing terminals will be able to sit, surrounded by space, like discrete sculptural objects.

In 2014, at a forum at the University of Chicago Law School, Comey contradicted Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder by endorsing the idea of the "Ferguson effect" — the notion that crime rates in America were rising, in part, because police were being circumscribed by activist groups, such as Black Lives Matter, which used video evidence to document violent abuse of citizens.

As Jefferson said: "A choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom .To subscribe to the notion that "it is possible to conceive of a fully elected upper house...with carefully circumscribed powers", is to forget that the possible is seldom the probable.

The intimacy is circumscribed.

Pizza deliveries are circumscribed.

"There's nothing circumscribed here".