Sentence examples for it circumscribed from inspiring English sources

At the same time it circumscribed his administrative powers to those tasks directly involved with the financial function.

America apparently achieved a double success: It circumscribed Iran's nuclear program, and the U.S. Treasury has hollowed out the nuclear agreement's financial quid pro quo, thus limiting Iran's potential financial empowerment, which America's Gulf allies so feared.

Like the neighborhoods it circumscribes, the grid has its integrity.

Plausibly, landscape and transport infrastructures may also play a role in transport mode choice as it circumscribes spatial arrangement and thus constraints for the area's transportation.

It circumscribes our own efforts, encouraging a passive, superficial knowledge of other human beings, at the same time insisting that they're not worthwhile enough to know more about.

"I don't want to call it miniature, but it's circumscribed".

Islam, like most faiths, is at its best when it is circumscribed.

It is circumscribed by specific requirements so that, notwithstanding its exceptional nature, it is justified pursuant to article 8(2)." Turning to article 14, Mr Justice Kay said it was appropriate to stand back and take stock in the circumstances of the case.

The limited evidence also means that it was difficult to determine the extent of health systems support, for example, whether it was circumscribed to those activities that directly support the mandates of the GHIs, or whether they sought to support the health system more broadly.

It had circumscribed Fricke's movements for much of his career.

It is circumscribed by massive fortifications — high, salt-bleached stone walls built in the 17th and 18th centuries to thwart pirates during the long stretch when Cartagena was the New World's collection point for loot en route to Spain.