Sentence examples for narrowly circumscribed from inspiring English sources

And these things are very narrowly circumscribed.

Roughly speaking, theologians began to argue that human knowledge was narrowly circumscribed.

Over time the circle of loyalists became more venal and narrowly circumscribed, the need actually to please the people less keenly felt; education fared particularly poorly.

"The time is right for the role of central to be narrowly circumscribed," Mr. Levy wrote, calling for the elimination of the remnants of "a paternalistic and expansive central management structure".

Terminal City itself, of course, is narrowly circumscribed in space, and we should give up any notion that the existing terminals will be able to sit, surrounded by space, like discrete sculptural objects.

Well, one of the ideas I work with throughout the book is the notion that, for your average medieval peasant — pretty much anywhere — religious pilgrimage was your only excuse to escape a life that was probably rather narrowly circumscribed.

Otto traces how Jefferson appealed to scientific thinking when drafting the Declaration of Independence, narrowly circumscribing his argument around the idea that if anyone can establish the truth of something using the tools of reason and science, no pope or monarch had any greater authority to rule than we do ourselves.

An alternative reply is to adopt a proximate consequentialism that only assesses the direct causal consequences of an act or otherwise more narrowly circumscribes the delineation of consequences (see Sinott-Armstrong 2011 for an account of direct causal consequentialism, see Collins, Hall, Paul 2004 on denying the transitivity of causation).

These academics complain that Hillel's Standards of Partnership "narrowly circumscribe discourse about Israel-Palestine".

As the attorney Lucie, Françoise Fabian nearly steals the film — in large measure because her part is tightly circumscribed, her action narrowly defined, and its limits channel her cool intensity to a focussed flame.

This inference can be circumscribed more or less narrowly (e.g., if all or most vertebrate model organisms share somite formation, then all or most vertebrates will share it).