Sentence examples similar to circumscribed situation from inspiring English sources

Although the new rules could be applied only in carefully circumscribed situations, they stepped back from a principle dating back to the Nuremberg War Crimes trials, when American judges wrote an international code of medical ethics.

The principle of those cases cannot be contorted to circumscribe the instant situation.

Margins can be either circumscribed or not circumscribed.

Rawls initially stated his problem in terms of rational decision theory, according to which any rational agent, circumscribed by various factors in an idealized choosing situation or original position, would choose his two favored principles of justice.

In other words, depending on the situation at hand, democracy can be circumscribed.

His social world seems to be circumscribed by the walls of his office.

He was too fair-minded not to see the truth of a situation and he knew that the freedom of any Government is circumscribed by events, by its allies, and by its physical resources.

The intimacy is circumscribed.

Pizza deliveries are circumscribed.

"There's nothing circumscribed here".

It's just very circumscribed.