Sentence examples for delimit from inspiring English sources

You are reluctant to delimit the scope of such a policy ("anything from armed intervention to a statement in parliament").

Because economists could not measure spillovers or delimit their scope ("How far does a technological spillover spill?" Mr Krugman wondered), they could invoke them to explain just about anything.Mr Krugman's models instead identified a less elusive benefit of proximity.

Thus, we need to precisely delimit the area where the money will work.

This is grossly misleading; what a taxonomist does in the course of his research and what a conservationist does with the results of that research are independent activities, and by conflating the two, the author of the article implies, incorrectly, that taxonomists delimit species boundaries for political reasons.

That is why both sides often seem so determined to delimit the outcome of any negotiating procedure before they even begin it.In this section What are they really for?

Israel has yet to delimit its economic zone with Lebanon.

Well known are the urine, feces, and scent markings employed by most mammals to delimit their breeding territories and to advertise their sexual state.

In 1881 Argentina and Chile agreed to delimit their Andean frontier, including partitioning Tierra del Fuego.

Such a subject, for example, may be exposed to two clicks that delimit an objective, 10-second interval but be told that it lasts 10 minutes.

Coverage in Le Monde has been divided between editorials demanding that "the work of security agencies be delimited by effective parliamentary or judicial procedures of control", and breathless accounts of communications between French and American security forces over whether the Americans were behind the cyberattacks on the French president's office in 2012.

A constitutional convention is under way, which could help to connect the EU's citizens to its institutions by defining and delimiting the club's purpose, but may end up by imposing unpopular integration (see article) for the views of Britain's foreign secretary, Jack Straw).