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.
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.
CAIRO — The military council governing Egypt is moving to lay down ground rules for a new constitution that would protect and potentially expand its own authority indefinitely, possibly circumscribing the power of future elected officials.
Otto traces how Jefferson appealed to scientific thinking when drafting the Declaration of Independence, narrowly circumscribing his argument around the idea that if anyone can establish the truth of something using the tools of reason and science, no pope or monarch had any greater authority to rule than we do ourselves.
Extreme cases aside, the line circumscribing acceptable content is blurry.
