Yet despite rising prosperity, a relatively free press and multi-party elections, Moroccans have grown increasingly sceptical of a political process that remains tightly, if elegantly, circumscribed.
Thalidomide, a drug banned in some countries for nearly 50 years because it causes malformations in embryonic limb tissue, may be on the verge of a dramatic, if carefully circumscribed, reinstatement for use against a range of diseases.
The hard-working and often besieged characters who populate his stories live in worlds partly defined, if not wholly circumscribed, by ideology and the state.
Free blacks often faced overwhelming discrimination and local segregation laws, but until a few years before the war, they were understood to have basic, if often highly circumscribed, rights.
A delusion is circumscribed if it does not lead to the formation of other intentional states whose content is significantly related to the content of the delusion, nor does it have pervasive effects on the behavior of the person reporting the delusion.
The program was not only standing room only but it attracted many younger Jews that have often found the communal dialogue on Israel overly circumscribed if not censored.
If poverty circumscribes the "growing virtues" of the rustics, equally, it limits their "crimes".
Press freedom, in particular, remains highly circumscribed, even if the means used to clamp down on critical media are sophisticated ones.
