Sentence examples for is highly circumscribed from inspiring English sources

As already noted, leadership at the individual level is highly circumscribed.

Yet despite his designation as orchestra director, Bramwell's actual "directing" is highly circumscribed.

Anna Mazzola, of the solicitors Hickman & Rose, said: "The judgment of the court of appeal should act as a stark ­warning to the Metropolitan police that the ­circumstances in which they can justify taking and retaining photographs of ­members of the public who have ­committed no crime is highly circumscribed".

The closest I can find to an official accounting of the drone program was from Senator John Kerry last October: "I am convinced that it is highly circumscribed now, very carefully controlled within a hierarchy of decision-making, significantly limited in its collateral damage, and profoundly successful in the impact it has had in putting Al Qaeda on the run.

Of course, secretaries of state have always traveled, but even that was highly circumscribed, all the way through the turn of the 20th century.

Ms. Geng said that the brief visit on Saturday was closely supervised by the police and that the conversation, via telephone through thick glass, was highly circumscribed.

It was a world in which members called black women "chocolate bunnies", female employees were barred from dating customers (but encouraged to go out with Playboy executives) and behaviour was highly circumscribed.

He said that Mr. Rajoy had shown himself to be "a flip-flopper" over how closely European nations should work together, insisting that the International Monetary Fund's role be highly circumscribed in the bailout, even though he had previously called on European governments to "cede more sovereignty" to a central fiscal authority.

At the same time, these opportunities are highly circumscribed: bounded to specific interventions, targeting specific populations, and tied to short-term funding cycles and time-limited projects, they produce an 'archipelago' pattern of development (Geissler, this issue) rather than a concentric circle of progress.

The focus of The Secret River was the highly circumscribed mind of Thornhill.

I don't think that Joe Louis, Jackie Robinson et al. changed the minds of many white folks in ways that were not highly circumscribed.