| If one assigns to the authorities the power to imprison or even to kill people, one must restrict and clearly circumscribe this power. |
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| Figure 6 shows an equilateral triangle and a rhombus that circumscribe the same unit circle. |
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| These symbols of solidarity circumscribe the Amish world and bridle the forces of assimilation. |
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| Both these bills use the pretext of real traumas to circumscribe freedom of opinion. |
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| From the earliest days of the new state there were efforts to circumscribe local authority powers. |
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| But the suspicious will wonder whether weak national backstops may circumscribe the ECB's willingness to get tough. |
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| Today, though, the lines which divide the country, not those which circumscribe it, matter most. |
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| Furthermore, the situation is very difficult to circumscribe both in terms of quality and of quantity. |
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| These activities are less restricted by the political sensitivities that often circumscribe freedom of action within the formal talks. |
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| What is invisible, we cannot circumscribe it, cannot see it, cannot measure it, cannot keep it enclosed. |
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| The section goes no further and leaves it otherwise open to an employer to circumscribe membership as it chooses. |
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| This is, in part, to acknowledge, sustain, and circumscribe the notion of police operational independence. |
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| In the cold war, conventional doctrine held that the fear of mutual destruction would forever circumscribe escalation beyond the conventional battlefield. |
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| In consequence, international criminal rules aim to prevent or at least circumscribe such conduct by stigmatizing it as criminal and making it penally punishable. |
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| Scientific advancements in biotechnology and the ubiquity of facilities capable of producing biological agents circumscribe prospects for the elimination of biological weapons and complicate verification efforts. |
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| The arrival of Fatah al-Islam militants in Lebanon is believed to be the consequence of efforts to circumscribe the infiltration of such fighters into Iraq. |
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| If he counted on substantial support by some ministers who come from the Fatah to help him circumscribe Hamas in the government, he may be disappointed. His parliamentary friends decided last week-end that that won't help. |
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| By forcing their suitors to be earnest or sincere, the women psychodramatically circumscribe them. |
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| This, in our view, and the view of the CAFC and the CIT in the Corus cases, are meant to circumscribe the manner in which WTO developments are to be implemented into the domestic law of the United States. |
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| Policy space: The trade agreements promoted by the EU contain commitments that circumscribe the policy space developing countries have for choosing their own strategies for development. |
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| Briefly introduced, the broad ambit of a constitutional, human rights approach serves to circumscribe the applications of new technologies that otherwise might encourage discriminatory or stigmatizing practices. |
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| And it is fundamental to shared concepts of progress and civilisation that an accident of birth should not be allowed to circumscribe the quality of life. |
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| It deemed that it would be difficult to circumscribe the concept of propaganda for war in legal terms and define what elements would constitute a criminal offence. |
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| This debate is concerned with the philosophical concept of what a species is, and the impact that DNA sequence data is having on how we circumscribe species. |
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| If in certain circumstances doctors have stopped using scalpels to look after their patients, judicial officers hardly improved their technique in the art to circumscribe the non enforcement of legal decisions. |
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| It must therefore be able closely to circumscribe the action of each executive agency and maintain real control over its operation, and in particular its governing bodies. |
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| Better to formalise and circumscribe their role. In his eulogy, Lee Hsien Loong made clear that his father's continued presence in the cabinet was not friction-free. |
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| It must therefore be able closely to circumscribe the action of the body responsible for technical assistance tasks and maintain real control over its operation and, in particular, its governing bodies. |
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| But practical experience has shown me that at the end of the day, it will probably not be possible to do a great deal more than simply circumscribe everything. |
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