Sentence examples for restricting the definition from inspiring English sources

Likewise, the insistence on restricting the definition to civilian victims inadvertently eliminated events like the 2000 al-Qaida attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, which the US government described as terrorism even though the victims were active servicemen.

Victor Homola (NYT) RUSSIA: DEFINING POLITICAL PARTIES -- President Vladimir V. Putin sent Parliament a proposal restricting the definition of political parties, a move he said would stabilize the political scene and critics said would further focus power in Kremlin hands.

But Alexander H. Schmidt, the lawyer representing the tenants, told the judges that Mr. Kasner was restricting the definition to refer to something "transformational" when, in fact, the word can apply to an event that has happened before.

Instead, he suggested restricting the definition of terrorism to something narrower and more manageable: "Beyond Afghanistan, we must define our effort not as a boundless 'global war on terror' but rather as a series of persistent, targeted efforts to dismantle specific networks of violent extremists that threaten America".

While these cities lie in wet climates, by restricting the definition of available supply to the rain that actually falls in the county, the study exposes the degree to which such areas can only meet their water needs by drawing on their rainy hinterlands, implicitly limiting the available water supply in those hinterlands and setting up potential conflicts between different users and uses.

In this paper, we mainly base our developments and analysis on restricting the definition to a bounded domain Ω.

Jewaliker did not restrict the definition of vocabulary to words found in the dictionary.

Constraints effectively restrict the definition domain of the unknown parameters from the three-dimensional space to a subspace defined by the equation of motion.

The members of Parliament also expressly outlawed patents for algorithms, the mathematical equations in software programs, and they restricted the definition of the sort of software that should be eligible for a patent.

In 2011, the UK and German governments lobbied to EU to restrict the definition of EDCs to only the most potent chemicals, a proposal described as a "loophole" by critics.

That charge would be more compelling, I think, if Congress amended the law to restrict the definition of "aggravated felonies" to truly serious crimes and to let immigration judges consider hardship cases of people who are really not menaces.