In this vision the circumscribed rules of chess were overturned, and in their place were imagined esoteric plottings of evil grandmasters.
To this end, he pointed out that they can be formalized in axiomatic systems (such as that of Principia or those developed by Hilbert himself), and mathematical propositions and proofs thus turn into formulas and derivations from axioms according to strictly circumscribed rules of derivation.
The Trunchbull, as her students refer to her, is a former hammer-throwing champion of Britain and a rigid fascist who believes in the power of might and circumscribing rules.
I think there will be more and more points of rupture in which people feel sufficiently frustrated with the status quo that they look to politics that are not circumscribed by the normal rules of politics, and want to build institutions themselves.
It's the central element of what's known as the Law of the River, a loosely defined and circumscribed body of rules, precedents, habits, treaties, customs, and compacts which isn't written down all in one place but is invoked almost any time two water users disagree about who's entitled to what.
Gottsched's poetic theory, which was circumscribed largely by artificial rules, proved to have little lasting influence upon later German literature.
So while Miliband's freedom of action may be circumscribed by the new rules of the parliamentary game, the SNP is also boxed in with the added pressure – that if it was to collapse a minority Labour government allowing a Tory government at Westminster it could face paying a heavy political price among its supporters – as happened in 1979.
Rather, the case for regulating insurers is to protect policyholders, who are not well placed to judge the security of a life insurer, say, and who may also be obliged by law to buy certain types of cover.When American insurers got into trouble two decades ago, regulators imposed rules that circumscribed their investment unnecessarily.
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.
Much of it comes from Athens, yet there is reason to suppose that the rules circumscribing Athenian women were exceptional; the "Gortyn code" from mid-5th-century Crete, for example, seems to imply that women held more property there than was usual at Athens in the same period.
It is said that an advantage of substance which the defendant may realize from the distinction is that the contents of his statement are not circumscribed by the ordinary exclusionary rules of evidence.
