Sentence examples for circumscribed situations 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.
Many of these are intended to predict behavior in very circumscribed situations, while others are intended to describe motivation in a wide range of settings.
On the other hand, these deficits may exist in circumscribed situations or participant groups not tested here.
Margins can be either circumscribed or not circumscribed.
The principle of those cases cannot be contorted to circumscribe the instant situation.
Thus, if we have a Constitutionally valid law that requires or circumscribes X in situation Y, and Congress chooses to write this law in French rather than English, the Supreme Court would not hold it un-Constitutional because it is written in French.
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.
