Sentence examples for delimits from inspiring English sources

Ayalon Stream dry for much of the year, though it has caused floods in the past flows northward to the Yarqon; it delimits central Tel Aviv to the east and forms a canal in the median of the Netivei Ayalon, a freeway that cuts through Tel Aviv from south to north.

The Black Sea lies to the east, and the northward-draining Danube River delimits the county's western border.

Gould argued that reproductive isolation could have important evolutionary consequences, insofar as it delimits the range of features (adaptive or otherwise) that members of a given species may acquire.

It "really delimits your choices, but also delimits the ways that people engage with you," she says.

In his opinion, however, the ecstatically received Up was just another example of how "Pixar disgraces and delimits the animated film as a mushy, silly pop form".

At the same time, nearby healthy cells form a capsule of tissue around the pus and develop a cell wall that delimits the abscess from nearby healthy tissues.

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

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.

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.

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).

Perhaps a phrase such as "her convex thighs curved steeply inward where they met and transformed, without violating her fundamental homeomorphism, into a concavity delimiting another sort of space" could only have been written by an author who has described a few too many thighs.To be fair, most of "Villages" is a cut above this.