"the frame within which" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the concept of a larger context or overview that determines or predefines the parameters of a situation. For example, you could say, "We need to consider the frame within which the project will be executed."
There is no chance that the United States is ever going to pass anything.' And then Brown v. Board totally changed the frame within which that debate happens.
In a few places the arc was sketched in rather than filled out, but the general picture was of a talented young artist working out the frame within which he will add details as he gains experience and maturity.
His adherence to this credo was so extreme that the majority of his projects can be summarized with the simple diagram of the frame within which architecture as form is reduced to its bare minimum: a perimeter and a roof.
Journalists and lawyers familiar with the case give withering commentary, providing the frame within which Mr. Cole's mother and brothers give their dignified, heartbreaking accounts of what went wrong.
Rustic and idyllic, the frame within which the Decameron's 100 stories play out is suggestively prelapsarian, a zone in which the dying world is remade (the book's title deliberately echoes that of the Hexaemeron, St Ambrose's commentary on the Book of Genesis).
While public health ethics has to engage with the traditional problems raised by its consequentialist commitments, for those who view social justice as the moral foundation of public health, considerations of justice provide the frame within which the moral implications of public health's consequentialist orientation are addressed.
In all my courses, I focus on helping students become aware of the way in which stories frame the way they think about the past, while at the same time encouraging them to read the sources I assign for the questions that they were originally intended to answer; that is, to look for the frames within which they were originally written.
The Provost will inform the grievant (and the party against whose decision the grievance has been filed) in writing of any referral of the matter and will specify the matters referred, the directions to the person to whom the referral is made (including the time frame within which the person is to report back to the Provost), and the name of that person.
The Provost shall inform the grievant (and the party against whose decision the grievance has been filed) in writing of any referral of the matter and shall specify the matters referred, the directions to the person to whom the referral is made (including the time frame within which the person is to report back to the Provost), and the name of that person.
However, that study did not report the exact methodology for determining organ failure developed in the ICU, or the time frame within which the symptoms of severe sepsis occurred.
The dean shall inform the grievant (and the party against whose decision the grievance has been filed) in writing of any referral of the matter and shall specify the matters referred, the directions to the person or persons to whom the referral is made (including the time frame within which the person is to report back to the dean), and the name of that person.
