As Tilly writes, they circumscribe time and space, limit the number of actors and actions, situate all causes "in the consciousness of the actors," and elevate the personal over the institutional.
Many American Viticultural Areas, as the American appellations are formally called, are unwieldy designations, with boundaries chosen for political reasons rather than because they circumscribe areas with discrete characteristics of climate and soil.
They circumscribe our possibilities and enact significant 'scripts' (Latour, 1991) that shape us as much as we shape them.
We have no doubt that, in spite of their leaky boundaries and continuity with infraspecific categories, these heliconiine species taxa and the names applied to them will continue to be useful because the forms they circumscribe are identifiable and because they successfully predict divergent biological traits about which scientists wish to communicate.
We concluded that "ethics does not consist of a static set of theories or principles that can be unproblematically 'applied' to new situations" pg.77, and that "[t]here might not, and cannot, be universal norms in bioethics, as emerging ethical norms are as 'epigenetic' as the science they circumscribe" pg.78.
The problem with plays like "Albert Speer" is that they are circumscribed by the facts as they are known.
Technically, every Alibaba share has equal rights, but they are circumscribed ones.
The commoners and even the nobles are trapped in a society in which they have circumscribed roles to play and are used by the powerful.
They have circumscribed his life, and turned ordinary undertakings — going on a trip, visiting friends, doing errands — into a daunting obstacle course.
Both the search for the truth and the right to vote are of paramount importance, but they are circumscribed by a higher, overarching concern the general welfare of our democracy.... Inherent in the law are the basic concepts of fairness, reliability, and predictability; and the constitutional safeguards of due process and equal protection were designed to promote these interests.
