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- verb Present participle of
circumscribe .
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Examples
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The nursing mom should be an established figure in public life and in the culture, and if that means circumscribing the ability of multinational corporations to swamp the culture in pro-formula messages (there being, after all, no multinational corporation selling breastfeeding, buying ads on the Life Network and putting up billboards to promote the cause), then so be it.
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He played deliberate figures on piano, circumscribing a melodic idea.
Thinking Man's Drummer Larry Blumenfeld 2011
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In practice, and in law, “freedom” is the granting of certain rights to certain classes of people, and the less restrictive the conditions circumscribing those rights are, the “freer” those people are judged to be.
January « 2010 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2010
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Greg Nojeim of the Center for Democracy & Technology, which promotes civil liberties and privacy, believes the bill lets too much information flow to the government, gives companies too large an immunity shield, and does a poor job of circumscribing the uses to which the information can be put.
Will U.S. Businesses Finally Get Some Cybersecurity? John Bussey 2011
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My veins and arteries were like barbed wire encircling my body, circumscribing my limits.
The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011
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Congress has the impeachment power, so could accomplish the same thing if, e.g. a judge started to investigate something Congress firmly intended to be left alone; and indicated so by passing an amnesty and/or otherwise circumscribing jurisdiction.
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The Heller Court has done a masterful job of circumscribing the scope of the RKBA, as well.
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In practice, and in law, “freedom” is the granting of certain rights to certain classes of people, and the less restrictive the conditions circumscribing those rights are, the “freer” those people are judged to be.
The "Freedom" Naivete « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2010
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Congress has the impeachment power, so could accomplish the same thing if, e.g. a judge started to investigate something Congress firmly intended to be left alone; and indicated so by passing an amnesty and/or otherwise circumscribing jurisdiction.
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My veins and arteries were like barbed wire encircling my body, circumscribing my limits.
The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011
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