circumscription

Example Sentences

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That said, the impact of Mr. Cervas’s circumscription has already been profound, creating the likelihood of highly competitive general-election campaigns from Long Island to upstate New York.

From New York Times • May 28, 2022

It seemed to us," said the majority, "that an alternative recommendation would be possible, if we were allowed to exercise mature practical judgment without the rigid circumscription of regulations and criteria established for us.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is a better movie than it was a play, for the sequences showing the dissipations of very young and very rich characters do not suffer the stage's three-walled circumscription.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Princess Elizabeth's life there was never any such grim circumscription.

From Time Magazine Archive

Such partial isolation or circumscription of matter in motion—so that it shall in itself constitute a little working microcosm—appears to be the first condition to the being of a subjective personality.

From Mind and Motion and Monism by Romanes, George John