The Chancellor ruled otherwise, but in so doing he clearly circumscribed the thrust and effect of Singer.
Delegates' minds were, he said, "circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country in all matters of government" ([Au]: 5).
He felt, rather, "circumscribed" as a writer, out of the mainstreams of the cultures he was writing about.
With his long-breathed croon floating over unassuming low-fi production, he sang about circumscribed but smartphone-connected lives, misfiring romances and looming life choices.
"Voting rights were tightly circumscribed", he notes, and that for "a very long time, only the elites of the political parties came to select their candidates at their quadrennial conventions".
George Bush had even less to brag about in 2000 — under the Texas constitution, a governor's power is distinctly circumscribed — but he enjoyed a reputation as a bipartisan coalition builder (since forsaken) and, more important, he had the gray-eminence family retainers whispering in his ear.
To be sure, his days are circumscribed, and he spends a lot of time watching TV.
The life he described sounded claustrophobically circumscribed, but Lozada told me that his main regret was not finishing school.
He created that (highly circumscribed) board of technocrats who might wring some efficiencies out of the system.
By 2000, when the Brotherhood was again allowed to contest highly circumscribed elections, he led its parliamentary ticket in Zagazig.
