Sentence examples for circumscribed the from inspiring English sources

But the court tightly circumscribed the F.C.C.'s actions.

The 18th-century city commissioners circumscribed the growing city with the North and South Circular roads.

He circumscribed the testimony of women who could have corroborated Hill's unappetizing portrait of a power-abusing predator.

Mr. Ogletree, who supports Mr. Obama's presidential bid, said Mr. Obama continued to support race-based preferences and understood that race still circumscribed the lives of many Americans.

Dray also misses the opportunity to show how all the talk of rape, wholly oppressive to black men and women, also circumscribed the behavior of white women.

Over time the circle of loyalists became more venal and narrowly circumscribed, the need actually to please the people less keenly felt; education fared particularly poorly.

Like the neighborhoods it circumscribes, the grid has its integrity.

The amendment sought to circumscribe the conservative body's ability to exclude candidates.

If poverty circumscribes the "growing virtues" of the rustics, equally, it limits their "crimes".

Authority and fear can circumscribe the argument, or congeal it, but can't end it.

Indeed, the day is long past when any dictionary could circumscribe the "official" language.