To see such killers as representatives of a religion, and to reduce a complex picture to their preferred caricature, would be to reward their crimes just as circumscribing the principle of free speech would be to bow to their medieval fantasies.
The knee-jerk tendency to turn it into a culture-war issue means that we're circumscribing our ability to address it.(Credit: Getty Images).
In other words, by circumscribing the limits of criminal aggression, the world would seem to be permitting all that lay outside those limits.
The Senate should not be cut out of the confirmation process so easily.The panel went further, noting that the Founding Fathers referred to "the recess", not "a recess", when circumscribing the president's powers.
He says that large areas of the West Bank must be annexed forthwith, circumscribing the main Palestinian towns as islands of autonomy at most.
But the constitutional court disagrees, and has struck down a planned backdated 98% tax because it breaches employee contracts.That has sparked fury in the ruling Fidesz party, which has used its two-thirds majority in parliament to rush through a law circumscribing the court's jurisdiction over taxes.
For historical reasons (Republicans having been the anti-slavery party in the civil war), white southerners were part of the Democratic coalition, circumscribing for many years the political impact of southern conservatism.
Archimedes' approach to determining π, which consists of inscribing and circumscribing regular polygons with a large number of sides, was followed by everyone until the development of infinite series expansions in India during the 15th century and in Europe during the 17th century.
At bottom, human rights qualify state sovereignty and power, sometimes expanding the latter even while circumscribing the former (as in the case of certain economic and social rights, for example).
Descartes succeeded in eliminating the soul's general physiological role altogether and in circumscribing its cognitive role to the human species.
Indeed, by limiting response alternatives (e.g., circumscribing the physical range of a trainee's movements or providing supplementary auditory and visual indicators of error), a training device can facilitate the acquisition or transfer of skill.
