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"Essentially she lives this very circumscribed social existence," Campion said.
And many of its rules are circumscribed by EU membership.
The identity services offered by the state are circumscribed appropriately.
Although she had founded Solax, her powers there were circumscribed.
Most people will find themselves living more muted, circumscribed lives.
It was circumscribed by dogma and poverty and revolved around ritual.
Within his circumscribed vocabulary of geometric forms, Voisine never repeats himself.
Like cages, they display the self-sufficiency of a circumscribed world.
The more power you attain, the more circumscribed that power becomes.
The president is now more circumscribed in what he can do.
The tiny swimming beetles of the Australian desert live circumscribed lives.
Their movement becomes more and more circumscribed by the mounting hatred.
When they are alone, the couple's world is circumscribed by work.
Like the lives of its principals, the novel is closely circumscribed.
The US has also circumscribed travel by Iranian and Russian diplomats.
Their meaning would be circumscribed, contained, their lives kept safely in vitro.
When Assad controlled the area, Hossein recalled, even indoor conversations were circumscribed.
Mr. Kushner's role on China has been similarly circumscribed in recent months.
It also offers a way out for women whose lives are circumscribed.
Fisher's own role as public crusader would end, circumscribed by Pursglove's interests.
They might act in a circumscribed manner, precisely and carefully picking targets.
While Ms. Trump's portfolio appears fairly circumscribed, Mr. Kushner has broadened his.
And that is the circumscribed reality to which The Show is so faithful.
Most, not all, of Iran's nuclear activities are either frozen or highly circumscribed.
But ultimately, all the possibilities in the world are ultimately circumscribed by ourselves.
In the United States, nearly every action related to commercial aviation is circumscribed.
But as the Orlando tragedy showed, this circumscribed capacity can still be highly lethal.
However, we think we have circumscribed its entire dimensions, which wasn't the case in 1992.
So his ability to pass legislation that reflects his worldview will likely be sharply circumscribed.
In the exhibition's press release, the artist suggests these heads represent those circumscribed by media.
But under local law, the officers would have fairly circumscribed powers, according to an expert.
Mikus, like Ann Truitt, worked throughout the 1960s within a highly circumscribed set of variables.
Crisply directed and pleasingly acted, the Mint's revival explores the perils of this circumscribed world.
Having left behind the circumscribed world of Trinidad, he was never entirely rooted in England.
"Law & Order" is usually at its best in the courtroom, its boundaries more tightly circumscribed.
The more distinctive the vineyard, and the more narrowly circumscribed, the more prized the wine.
Motherhood continues to be a valued yet circumscribed role, through which gender stereotypes are reinforced.
It was, indeed, a sanctuary, but for many of Thoreau's companions freedom was narrowly circumscribed.
Think of all the ways you already insert pleasurable, circumscribed bursts of risk into your life.
Virtually everything a president can do on the domestic policy front is circumscribed by the Congress.
When Astrid reflects on the circumscribed nature of her current existence, she sometimes recalls her childhood.
They are successful small-business owners with college degrees, yet even their choices have been circumscribed.
But in each case, the spread was quickly circumscribed, its origins easily determined, the patients isolated.
We've tortured prisoners, assassinated American citizens, circumscribed basic rights and freedoms — all in the name security.
Circumscribed power was for losers, a category of humanity for which he reserves his greatest disdain.
But Cockell argues that even at this deep level, the possibilities of life were tightly circumscribed.
"Donald Trump was president of the United States, and that circumscribed Paul Ryan's choices," says Brooks.
The film documents a beguiling performance that seems to be broken up into different, highly circumscribed views.
But Washington's lack of allies on the ground has meant its role in Syria has been circumscribed.
That doesn't mean that catching a crush—or falling in love—is utterly circumscribed by selling sex.
The view is further circumscribed by highlighting the most charismatic male leaders, political actors, and legislative achievements.
His protagonists become expressive individuals, yet they inhabit a world where hierarchies are fixed and freedoms circumscribed.
Their characters are based on tightly circumscribed biographies, which are developed in collaboration with medical-school faculty.
The artist challenges himself by mastering a circumscribed set of materials to achieve a maximum expressive range.
The driver's entrepreneurial opportunities are almost "completely circumscribed by the company's control of the price," she said.
"Millennium Actress" is circumscribed yet vast — its title might refer to a thousand years of Japanese culture.
Optimus Ride and Voyage are going after retirement communities and other circumscribed areas, which require fewer capabilities.
It's designed for circumscribed areas, too, which make it more practical to achieve in the near-term vs.
Among the many happy consequences, freedom of religion, which had been repressed or circumscribed under communism, was restored.
It is a gray world circumscribed by the maneuvers of shadowy others and by a creeping, ambient paranoia.
"The Trump White House, working with the Republican leadership in the Senate, have deliberately circumscribed this investigation" pic.twitter.
That was, roughly, the advantage that Dickinson's profoundly circumscribed life had over Rich's, whose boundaries were rapidly disintegrating.
Heart attacks and strokes also lead to considerable disability, lost work time and otherwise circumscribed lives and abilities.
But a more fundamental explanation is that Thailand's elections, scheduled for Sunday, were circumscribed even before campaigning began.
Scholars and critics have struggled to situate it within art history's tendency toward rigid periodizations and nationally circumscribed categories.
Now, at a still-luminous 71, Ms Close has been handed a new role, albeit one just as circumscribed.
Particularly since Modernism, which saw Joyce and Virginia Woolf anatomise the minutiae of life, literary time has been circumscribed.
Digital lives are circumscribed by algorithms and social media networks that create separate but homogenous red or blue realities.
We can expect that American policy options will not be limited to the carefully circumscribed lexicon of the past.
It will probably take several years for carefully circumscribed operations to get underway in more than a few cities.
Donald Trump has repeatedly propounded his vision of a United States circumscribed with barricades and reinforcements at the borders.
They lived lives circumscribed by social convention and exerted influence mostly in determining the absolute standard of high style.
It is also a film whose yearslong creation circumscribed a period of upheaval and tragedy in Mr. Jones's life.
Ms. Goldin's darkly circumscribed vision also may have something to do with her heavy drug use during the '80s.
And conservation ironically meant the creation of laws that circumscribed how and where Native Americans, for instance, could hunt.
In his most recent decision, Sessions said judges can only terminate or dismiss cases in "specific and circumscribed" circumstances.
Like Williams's characters, those who inhabit Ms. Kennedy's plays are both products of, and misfits in, a circumscribed society.
Mr. Assad's control, power and legitimacy have been severely circumscribed, whether he and his supporters know it or not.
This is how it goes for many Dalits, their life circumscribed by what they are not allowed to do.
Our identities and sense of worth were not circumscribed, but are enlarged by serving good causes bigger than ourselves.
That generates a dissonance: you're looking through a circumscribed box, but seeing more than the box should properly show you.
That seems to suit all parties, who claim to want peace and stability, but not to have their freedom circumscribed.
Whether disfavoured or legitimately circumscribed, it is clear that the Second Amendment is not the primary obstacle to gun control.
Since "The Shallows" is a star vehicle for the attractive and statuesque Ms. Lively, the suspense here is somewhat circumscribed.
The action of the book takes place over the course of one week in which Amelia's circumscribed world opens up.
While Trump's electoral power is circumscribed, his ability (and apparent willingness or proclivity) to cause electoral problems is seemingly unbounded.
But his images certainly do connect; they are tender, searching, hugely understanding of even the most chaotic or circumscribed existences.
Like drinking alcohol and smoking tobacco, the smoking of marijuana in public places will be circumscribed, depending on the province.
He has continued to fight on bravely, but his podium appearances and his travels outside Japan have been severely circumscribed.
They featured relatively circumscribed renditions of her original tunes and leaned hard on the group's formidable alto saxophonist, Darius Jones.
Lopez is delighted to feel a little sunshine on his face; to be in a conversation, however circumscribed, with Federer.
Yet there are ways in which central-bank powers might be circumscribed without hurting the bit of their autonomy that matters.
Translators often struggle to render curse words and insults in other languages, as their emotional heft tends to be culturally circumscribed.
The very language that has held together and circumscribed public debate since the 1980s has shown signs of dissolution and fragmentation.
It also includes little cosmic snacks, like the horoscope-inspired "power emoji" and interpretations of the news circumscribed by the stars.
Yes, life is hopelessly circumscribed, and most of us are chained to many things and doomed in one way or another.
There's an inspector general, but it has a very narrow and circumscribed mandate because it only pertains to the contracting process.
Until quite recently, a vast majority of people endured circumscribed lives ruled by customary interactions and the cycle of the seasons.
But ESMA's proposed powers to adjust capital requirements at European venture capital funds "ought to be further circumscribed", the document said.
If you're new to Twitter, or if you've repeatedly flouted its community rules, your rights on the platform would be circumscribed.
As a child, her life was circumscribed by gymnastics practice and Islamic prep school, realms where discipline and accountability were sacrosanct.
Real-life pairings are usually circumscribed by a person's social sphere, and the chances of meeting a total stranger are low.
He first saw the Ringling show in New York when he was 8, and fell in love with its circumscribed world.
It was a time when the economic prospects for a young, poor French Québécois in Anglo-dominated Canada were severely circumscribed.
Christianity proved robust in the face of non-Christian authorities, be they Ottoman or communist, which circumscribed or persecuted the faith.
"In fact, even with its 'circumscribed judicial inquiry,' the Hawaii Court itself considered 'extrinsic evidence' — namely, President Trump's own statements," Furman wrote.
The fairs are a bit more open—yet they too are circumscribed by inconsistent censorship that drives authors and publishers to distraction.
The members stayed locked in their grooves, three young men making music with jazz instruments, rock dynamics and circumscribed dance-music strategies.
On the home front, however, a president's role is more circumscribed, allowing Congress greater power — and responsibility — to shape the national agenda.
But precisely because the power is so broadly applicable, and so narrowly held, its potential for abuse is tightly circumscribed by politics.
But all that work and sacrifice can be for naught if an ambitious young lawyer doesn't achieve a circumscribed set of accomplishments.
We have done what we can to provide Jeffrey with a fulfilling adult life, but his world remains circumscribed by his disability.
Her field of view suddenly circumscribed to the confines of her home, Ess shifted her focus to the immediate space around her.
In Murphy's paintings and drawings, the commonplace things of everyday life become analogical: the mind is set loose upon a circumscribed view.
It presumes young people lack imagination, that they largely comprehend music as educational, that their interests are circumscribed and almost unrelentingly twee.
However, to change rulemakings in a legal manner, the agencies must follow a much more circumscribed process than for other agency actions.
But her ambition to join an archaeological dig in Iraq — fertile territory for excavations — was circumscribed by conservative Iraqi attitudes toward women.
London Theater LONDON — Russian theater comes comparatively rarely to London, and even less frequently with a play from beyond a circumscribed canon.
Within this circumscribed space, metaphoric entities appear that are impossible to imagine outside the confines of literature: vampires, magic fruit, living dolls.
The president's legislative powers are sharply circumscribed by a bicameral legislature whose Senate even has the power to reject the president's executive appointments.
Surrounded by traditional Buddhist temple buildings, which are heavily ornate with highly circumscribed meanings, the Hiroshima House sticks out like a sore thumb.
But, as elsewhere, the dust-up pitted her old sense of openness against students' moral certitude and tightly circumscribed idea of proper discourse.
So much so that a group of top execs prepared a formal letter to the board to ask that his role be circumscribed.
Since the FBI database is used in gun purchases, those people added to it would have had their ability to buy firearms circumscribed.
As a result, both parties have circumscribed the amendatory process lest members be subjected to recorded votes designed to injure rather than improve.
In Esi Edugyan's third novel, " Washington Black " (Knopf), Titch's inquiry marks the beginning of a friendship both beautiful and tormenting, liberating and circumscribed.
Even back in its more tightly circumscribed days, the party was so enormous that its hosts were hardly able to speak to everyone.
There is a significant risk that unless the marketing is very carefully circumscribed, they will become the next trend and the next fad.
Most of us are oblivious to this winged panoply, even in our own backyards, because our perception is circumscribed by our ecological illiteracy.
Open houses are being eliminated, or at least circumscribed; brokers are doing FaceTime apartment tours for clients who are worried about being out.
"In a digital age, the allocation of taxing rights can no longer be exclusively circumscribed by reference to physical presence," the framework states.
"In a digital age, the allocation of taxing rights can no longer be exclusively circumscribed by reference to physical presence," the proposal states.
Cuomo tried to pick off Nixon with repeated attacks on what he described as the slow and circumscribed rollout of her tax returns.
VICE: Writing by women about sex is so often belittled, or at least marketed in a circumscribed way—as purely confessional or funny.
And as long as women's bodies are legislated and circumscribed and shamed, romance will also be political because it is, often, also about sex.
Still others concentrate discomfort into a violent but circumscribed period of time, like being boiled in a caldron, as a kind of psychological purgative.
But her plans were circumscribed when Williams's right knee crumpled with a torn anterior cruciate ligament midway through her junior season in high school.
Moreover, the imposition of forced labor and highly structured living arrangements degraded individuals, constrained families, circumscribed native culture, and negatively impacted scores of communities.
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The forest itself was once home to the Lithuanian resistance; now that the statues are contained within its boundaries, the Soviet system is symbolically circumscribed.
They have spent the past five years methodically rigging the system to ensure that the will of voters is thwarted, or at least fiercely circumscribed.
The price controls under the Dodd-Frank Act's Durbin amendment permit interchange-recovering circumscribed debit-issuer costs — a public utility model to minimize merchant costs.
But officials of the de Blasio administration are confident and proud enough to have opened the $800 million PSAC II recently to a circumscribed visit.
"You have people whose lives are pretty circumscribed — a lot of our riders have one-on-one aides and very little freedom," Ms. Kershaw said.
The FBI investigation into sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh seems to have been highly circumscribed, with many potential witnesses going uninterviewed.
Mr. Azar's remarks on drug price negotiations were carefully circumscribed and somewhat ambiguous — an approach that allowed him to get through the hearing largely unscathed.
The presidency is, at the end of the day, both the most powerful political office we have and one whose formal powers are rather circumscribed.
She is formally circumscribed by the 2008 Constitution, which gives senior military officers control over three key security ministries: defense, border affairs and home affairs.
This and other paintings Marcus executed in grays or a highly circumscribed tonal palette would more than hold their own against Dickinson's own tonal canvases.
Their powers and scope go well beyond Mr. Mueller's circumscribed mandate; they go to Mr. Trump's judgment and whether he lied to the American people.
Next month's election, which is circumscribed by a military-drafted constitution that keeps much of the power in the army's hands, brings him little hope.
Democrats said the FBI's supplemental investigation of Kavanaugh last week was far too circumscribed to find any corroborating evidence, which it didn't, to Ford's accusation.
With his long-breathed croon floating over unassuming low-fi production, he sang about circumscribed but smartphone-connected lives, misfiring romances and looming life choices.
If these are the social skills deemed worthy of reward — rudeness and a tendency to patronize — then I'll take my circumscribed earning potential and run, thanks.
Offsetting the hatred and bleakness are the luminous main characters: Nargis, Helen and Imran, for whom history, culture and religion are not circumscribed by hard boundaries.
As is typical of this genre, Nadia goes through different phases of experimentation within her circumscribed world, as she tries to stop what's happening to her.
Her background is mixed — she has family roots in Spain, France, Africa and China — and the seemingly binary categories of race and gender circumscribed her individuality.
They went around House leadership -- Lewis told CNN's Wolf Blitzer he didn't give top Republicans a heads-up on his plans -- and even circumscribed C-SPAN.
Apollo is intended to be released to developers and automakers via staged releases, including access to self-driving tech for circumscribed, restricted areas by month's end.
His sheep used to roam and graze anywhere they pleased along the grassy banks of the Euphrates River, but now their roaming space has been circumscribed.
Federal law requires employers to negotiate "in good faith," but only on a tightly circumscribed set of issues — basically just wages, hours and some working conditions.
Still from 'Endless,' a visual album by Frank Ocean Stairs are spaces between spaces, pathways circumscribed by the way our bodies navigate space and each other.
Noel Canning meaningfully circumscribed the recess appointment power, making it unconstitutional for a president to make such appointments unless the Senate adjourns for a formal recess.
This time, however, the protests were unsuccessful and Carrie Lam was selected under circumscribed electoral rules and only after first being vetted by the Chinese government.
If "Refiguring the Future" has a core argument, this is it: Rather than forcing us into circumscribed boxes, technology can help us break out of them.
There is talk of a circumscribed role for the next president and of the hiring of a permanent general manager to oversee the national team programs.
Merkel, who on Sunday rejected the responsibility that was pushed onto her after Trump's win as "grotesque and absurd", clearly circumscribed the limits of Germany's international leadership.
The Senate and agricultural commissioner races are now headed to hand reviews of overvotes and undervotes, a more narrowly circumscribed but also potentially volatile pool of votes.
But those deals are, compared to the PRC demands from Canada, limited, tightly-circumscribed agreements that generally do not impinge on key allied sovereignty and security interests.
If you think central government must have the most limited, clearly enumerated of powers, lest the liberty of the citizen be circumscribed, you can be an American.
Granted, Lerner realizes that his idea of poetry is circumscribed: "I hope it goes without saying that my summary here doesn't pretend to be comprehensive," he writes.
The history of the novel is full of characters who mature by reconciling themselves to a more limited and circumscribed fate than they had felt entitled to.
It's no wonder that after decades of putting women in rigidly circumscribed roles the industry has had a tough time figuring out what to do with them.
Viewing one of Cornell's boxes is an almost heartbreaking encounter with inner vitality and outer limitation; like cages, they display the self-sufficiency of a circumscribed world.
These thoughtful, sensitive couples in their lovely Icelandic landscape are taking an absurd walk in a small, circumscribed circle, and doing so for a very long time.
Just when you think you've cracked the film's circumscribed logic, it opens up and goes wild in ways at once too wondrous and too preposterous to spoil.
In the 13 months since Ms. Meng, 47, was arrested at the Vancouver airport, her life has been circumscribed by the terms of her $10 million bail.
Bacon remained formulaic and unsparing to the bitter end, his compact, contorted figures hemmed inside lushly painted monochromatic fields — reds, oranges, pinks — circumscribed by recurrent geometric designs.
I'd rather be with someone who is open to the sexual energy going lots of different ways, because that means their definition of sex isn't limited or circumscribed.
Under Iran's system, the powers of the elected president are circumscribed by those of the conservative supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has been in power since 1989.
Both the Senate and agricultural commissioner races are now headed to hand review of overvotes and undervotes, a more narrowly circumscribed but also potentially volatile pool of votes.
But the pope asked some skeptical questions at the assembly about whether the responsibilities of deaconesses in the early church were more circumscribed than those of male deacons.
"Since 'The Shallows' is a star vehicle for the attractive and statuesque Ms. Lively, the suspense here is somewhat circumscribed," Glenn Kenny wrote in The New York Times.
Pakistan's constitution does establish freedom of the press, but it is a frail freedom, circumscribed by laws that protect Islam and the security and defense of the country.
What brings extremists back home, as it were, is a rediscovery of those needs, and finding sources of significance beyond the ideological prescriptions that have circumscribed their lives.
For more than half a century, their life revolves around the circumscribed domestic rituals of cleaning, gardening, cooking and keeping house, maintaining little contact with the outside world.
While Turkey's brinkmanship may have paid off in securing U.S. support to smooth over tensions, northern Syria will continue to challenge a more circumscribed U.S. Middle East policy.
Just as when you take a book out from the library and have a circumscribed amount of time to keep it, so it is with the movies here.
Her novels sketch a circumscribed scene whose anchors were the church and the vicarage, and the busy, decent Englishmen and -women (more women) who shuffled between the two.
Any expansion of such power beyond this circumscribed role — to include ordering torture or otherwise — would need to rely on "inherent" presidential powers not enumerated in the Constitution.
Each flight is a discrete task, one that will always be circumscribed by flight-time regulations, the capacity of fuel tanks or — ultimately — the size of the earth.
But the healthy choice represented by a lunch at Sweetgreen, or at other healthy salad chains, is circumscribed by a punishing workweek and the city's waste disposal system.
Yet organizing the show around roughly circumscribed areas of artistic production has its limitations, not least because there are intersections between the artists that inevitably transgress geographical boundaries.
But the drones proved to be too expensive and hard to fly, and the cameras mounted on the drones gave too tightly circumscribed a view of the waters below.
Critics argue that the plan would fundamentally undermine net neutrality by allowing one company to effectively create a circumscribed internet experience of its own choosing for millions of people.
By placing these two related but very different paintings together, Haynes underscores that she is never programmatic, no matter how circumscribed her means: every stroke is discovered and felt.
In the meantime, Mr Salvini's ability to turn his extremist rhetoric into reality will depend on the degree to which he is circumscribed by his allies and by voters.
His rights to essential goods and services were now circumscribed through an algorithm designed to discriminate against the 7.5 million people on China's "Dishonest Persons Subject to Enforcement" list.
But he seemed to have such a circumscribed view of his own responsibilities that he didn't want to answer questions beyond simple statements or citation of the full report.
But this has been an election in which the very language that has held together and circumscribed public debate since the 1980s has shown signs of dissolution and fragmentation.
With the exception of Kim Jong Un, who holds eternal leadership in his country, both Presidents Moon and Trump are operating under time constraints circumscribed by their presidency terms.
Rather, looking at these stiff planes and curves, one feels that the warrior's movements would be severely circumscribed, that the need for protection limited what actions he could take.
It's entirely possible that a future Democratic agenda would be circumscribed and unraveled by a Supreme Court whose slim conservative majority owes itself to minority government and constitutional hardball.
Though it contains only bits of Jewish identity, such as the family's Hanukkah celebration in 1942, Anne's entire existence is sharply circumscribed by the danger posed by Nazis and collaborators.
To cite Jasper Johns's famous statement about his choice of subject matter — "things which are seen but not looked at, not examined" — Powell can be expansive within her circumscribed views.
Peach — the microblogging platform— was seemingly designed against those circumscribed possibilities, as an antidote to the weird world-eating dominion of the Twitters and Facebooks and Instagrams of the universe.
Overall, this year's state budget is 15% lower than that of 2009; Medicaid and welfare have been pinched along with schools, as have state troopers, whose mileage is now circumscribed.
Iran could technically choose to leave the JCPOA at any time, but to date has opted to remain a party to the accord even as its economic dividends are circumscribed.
Booker's campaign had predicted where the testimony would go just as it started, and Mueller began to takes questions about the legal guidelines some Democrats believe unduly circumscribed his findings.
The islands that hook southwesterly from mainland Florida are circumscribed in terms of growth not just by water and available land, but also by density regulations related to hurricane evacuations.
The tech-savvy Teng, by contrast, can pinpoint his exact location on Google Earth, even though his routine is largely circumscribed by the 43-mile route between Husab and Swakopmund.
Busy enough with my own life, I couldn't envisage a future self whose comings and goings were circumscribed, apparently happily, by the wants and needs of people half my size.
Ms. Riva had wanted to act since she was a child, she later said, but felt that her ambition was circumscribed by her family's modest life in a rural village.
But now I needed to learn something specialized and circumscribed, to get news from and about a realm I had been steadily approaching yet resisting every step of the way.
These days the main way of getting online is via smartphones and tablets that confine users to carefully circumscribed spaces, or "walled gardens", which are hardly more exciting than television channels.
Cato and the EFF both argued that other appellate courts, notably the 2nd and 4th Circuits, have adopted a more circumscribed view of who is an unauthorized user under the CFAA.
There is the recognition that we do not see more, that the view we have is circumscribed by all sorts of factors that we must be aware of at all times.
On the outer edge of each panel, Gharem incudes two traffic-line-yellow broken arcs, as if to suggest that the bars are circumscribed even in the space beyond the panels.
These chapters emerge as examples, often gory, of women rejecting the meager possibilities offered to them — forced marriage, circumscribed existence — in a desperate search for something more exalted, a greater purpose.
Living on a small, circumscribed piece of land marooned in the sea, Dr. Pauker points out, forces you to interact with your neighbors in ways that may not occur on continents.
Synopsis: A man living in a futuristic sterile colony begins to question his circumscribed existence when his friend is chosen to go to the Island, the last uncontaminated place on earth.
But in Mozart, in Shostakovich, in Wagner, often, you get this feeling that you're rooted in the rational but you've gone to some place that isn't circumscribed by geometry any more.
In "A Piece of the World," Kline must dig deeper to find meaning in her heroine's circumscribed existence, in a life played out against the backdrop of a stern, unyielding landscape.
Hitherto, British regulations in this area have reflected European law, which generally mandates stunning before slaughter, but allows for some well-circumscribed exceptions to meet the needs of local Muslims and Jews.
"Modern artificial darkness negated the negative qualities ascribed to its timeless counterpart: divorced from nature and metaphor, highly controlled and circumscribed, it was a technology that fused humans and images," Elcott writes.
The framers of the Constitution rather sharply circumscribed the president's authority to make and repeal legislation, making it in many respects a weaker office than the prime ministerships of more majoritarian countries.
Within the circumscribed, geometric domain he set out to explore, he is slowly but confidently pulling out all the stops without letting go of the geometry that got him where he is.
Still, as Vox's Dylan Matthews has written, the endorsements are illustrative of a stunning shift among Democrats to embrace single-payer legislation — which was once circumscribed to the party's far-left fringe.
The performances took place in two lightly circumscribed areas of the lounge, with 50 or so listeners huddled around, sitting on chairs at small tables or on furniture that doubled as props.
But if the Clintons return to the White House, his life will inevitably become more circumscribed, and he will be expected to show the self-discipline that most first spouses have demonstrated.
"As safari guides, they are pushing several boundaries that circumscribed women in the past," said Deborah Durham, an anthropologist at Sweet Briar College who has conducted research on the country since 210.
Calling it a "platform" has ironic significance, since Twitter is both a megaphone and a product forever circumscribed by the discursive boundaries (and possibly even the pecuniary concerns) of the tech industry.
Coleman was arguably the jazz scene's most important star, but he was not earning much money from his albums or performances, and he felt that his audience was being circumscribed by promoters.
While their powers have been hitherto circumscribed, a Tshisekedi presidency will be frustrated at every turn if the Senate, the National Assembly and provincial parliaments are all dominated by Mr. Kabila's coalition.
Her two-day stay in New York, complete with a ferry ride near the Statue of Liberty, was intended to ooze normality, but visits by presidents of Taiwan are unusual and heavily circumscribed.
The sums and the various apparently official acts Mr Silver undertook to lard his bank account may be vast and clear enough to fall within the circumscribed definition of corruption sketched in McDonnell.
Economically—and by extension, temperamentally—this maturation occurred in a different era, one far removed from N.D.G.'s current affluence, where expectations of male behaviour were clearly circumscribed and a masculine ethic prevailed.
First, as the court recognized during World War II, military tribunals are a narrow and carefully circumscribed exception to the general right of all criminal defendants to a trial by a civilian jury.
Yet regional and global influences on the food that Jews ate remained circumscribed by allegiance (no matter how strict) to the laws of kashrut and by the rituals for Passover and other holidays.
For a young political hopeful, it was a heady but circumscribed time—Democrats seemed desperately in need of big ideas, but the center of the country was still understood to be pretty conservative.
John Dogg's 1986 "Untitled (Classic Belted)," a round tire circumscribed by a square box, and a 1975 paintbrush in a box by H.C. Westermann express a similar insight, somewhere between banal and profound.
To understand this, it's important to look at how routine stops are used strategically by police, and how an officer's intent to search a vehicle is circumscribed by the provisions of the Fourth Amendment.
"We believe that the folks who are most impacted are very circumscribed to the universe of people who sued" over Obamacare's contraception mandate — that's about 22016 employers in 50 lawsuits, the HHS official said.
Just as with writing and printing, we believe we have been liberated by the new medium into a boundless frontier, even though our newfound abilities are entirely circumscribed by the same old controlling powers.
Beyond that, his defense is that much more challenging when it comes to his over-the-top tweets that President Obama had wiretapped him, whether the word "wiretapped" was circumscribed by quotes or not.
Citing the April 25 court ruling restoring Brady's four-game suspension from the National Football League for deflating footballs, the union said federal courts have only "narrowly circumscribed" authority to review labor arbitration decisions.
Yet in other ways, the very term "political poetry" misleads, suggesting a terrain of poetry that could somehow be circumscribed, as if we could ever know where that realm "the political" begins or ends.
" And he argued that judges' rights to free speech were circumscribed because "if you put on the black sheet, you have withdrawn your right to talk about politics and indeed to think about politics.
His Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song was really about the inner-city, about the hustle of living in the city, and what it means to be a black subject in a neighborhood that's economically circumscribed.
Akihito's political role is circumscribed by Japan's postwar constitution, where he is defined as a symbol of the nation, but he has made clear on a number of occasions his support for pacifism and reconciliation.
But Conn, in many of her photographs, deliberately includes the structures of the diorama itself, as if to remind us that human encounters with nature are often constrained and circumscribed, corralled behind curbs, fences, glass.
Moreover, each of these great political leaders — Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and Reagan — passed on a newly circumscribed regime, so tenacious as to implicate their successors in another cycle of gradually accelerating political decay.
Instead, the court insisted, it was confined to a more "circumscribed judicial inquiry," considering the order at face value and upholding it "so long as it can reasonably be understood" to have a legitimate justification.
But the decision was made much easier by the accumulating evidence of banned chemical weapons and the circumscribed nature of the attack — a one-time onslaught on three major sites linked to chemical weapons manufacture.
Electing to stay within a circumscribed vocabulary of hard-edged geometric forms — rectangles, triangles, parallelograms, and trapezoids — he opened himself up to the possibilities suggested by contrasting proportions and color changes along the panel's borders.
In their years-long efforts to undermine Cruz's legislative hijinks, Republican operatives labored under the assumption that Cruz would be a thorn-in-the-side senator for life—a political nuisance with real, but circumscribed, power.
All the [games in] 50 Short Games are sorta these scratchy, circumscribed, flat cartoons, so taken all at once it really made me wish there was more room for some kind of dreamy quality in there.
The new constitution, approved in a farcically circumscribed referendum, creates a National Assembly consisting of an appointed Senate with 250 members, to be picked by the generals, and an elected House of Representatives with 500 members.
The desperation of this message is echoed by multiple reports over the weekend that the White House was limiting the scope of the FBI investigation, including offering an extremely circumscribed list of who could be interviewed.
Thus far though, those so called "award-worthy" characters have been circumscribed in their scope: They're dramatic, soul-searching roles, more about repentance and a desire for absolution than a positive and joyful celebration of sexuality.
Shelley Worrell, co-founder of Caribbeing, describes the term as a hybrid identity addressing the reality of a person living in "diasporic metropolitan communities" who does not feel entirely circumscribed in either Caribbean or American identities.
We've reached out to Luke Air Force Base to learn which of the planes won the mock dogfight, and if that plane was that employed evasive maneuvers which incidentally circumscribed the exact shape of a cartoon dick.
The inner circle surrounding Mr. Sisi is notoriously opaque, but many analysts say they believe he operates as first among equals, a leader whose power is circumscribed by some fiercely autonomous elements of the Egyptian security services.
Trump's victory held only a fraction of the lessons that it was said to, but it did reveal a hunger among many Americans for a kind of political discourse that wasn't so tightly circumscribed and numbingly polite.
"This resolution demonstrates the benefits of working cooperatively with EEOC and serves as a model for businesses committed to truly leveling the playing field where opportunity is not circumscribed by one's gender," she said in a statement.
The problem with the trolley problem and similar thought experiments is that they focus in so narrowly on such tightly circumscribed decisions that they end up writing the character of the moral agent out of the picture.
A recent wave of arrests in DPR "has had a further chilling effect on the ability of people to exercise their already heavily circumscribed rights to the freedom of expression, religion, peaceful assembly and association," the report reads.
While they extend the ability to create an animated character to anyone who uses an associated app, that creation and personalization is circumscribed: the avatar's range is limited for the purposes of what we're discussing in this article.
Nexar says that their goal is to address a significant gap in a lot of current research, which uses imagery for training that comes from either very circumscribed real world areas, or from simulations or lab-based environments.
To avert panic here is crucial, however, and, it's important to remember that, so far, cases of locally-acquired mosquito-borne Zika infection in Florida appear to be limited to one circumscribed area just north of downtown Miami.
All five were born in the US. Her DACA protection lapsed while she was pregnant with her second child, and she was suddenly returned to the world of her childhood, in which the family's movements were closely circumscribed.
The special counsel is not "off in a free-floating environment," Dreeben said in arguments before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that attempted to show Mueller's power is circumscribed by the law.
The intrinsic privilege most American kids possess -- no clocks to punch, no mouths to feed -- that allows them to test the limits of their bodies and convictions, circumscribed only by what a parent or a principal will indulge.
Of course, women participated too — they made accusations, testified against other women, and suffered dramatic spectral possessions at public trials (as famously depicted in Arthur Miller's The Crucible) — but their roles were relatively circumscribed when compared to men.
It comes as the president looks toward a modest legislative agenda for the year, circumscribed by the realities of a presidential campaign that has sharply curtailed the congressional calendar and will most likely sap lawmakers' appetites for tough votes.
At the urging of her mentor Clive Davis and others, she wore glamorous clothes, sang pop-driven songs instead of R&B and obeyed other unwritten social norms that circumscribed how she could live her life and express herself.
The "high value" designation is cited as a reason for a variety of circumscribed freedoms, from detention in a secret location that lawyers can't visit, to minute and seemingly meaningless restrictions like the prohibition on noncommercially sealed food items.
Unlike China's system, our emerging post-privacy order is not (for now) totalitarian; its impositions are more decentralized and haphazard, more circumscribed and civilized, less designed and more evolved, more random in the punishments inflicted and the rules enforced.
That leaves the royal family as a species of cosseted but absurdly circumscribed civil servant, their lives arranged in minute detail by bureaucrats, their public statements carefully vetted to ensure they do not overstep their role as constitutional figureheads.
This is a hint about the kind of world we are entering: it's circumscribed by the Christian faith, whose system is essentially Manichaean, a dualistic cosmology of a fallen, evil world of matter doomed until a transcendent spiritual truth rescues it.
And you may also see local law enforcement officers or security guards, but their functions are carefully circumscribed on election day — as noted above, these personnel are almost always forbidden from playing a direct role in supervising or challenging voters.
A cornerstone of Google's position in the case is that intermediary liability must be circumscribed based on a court's geographic boundaries — otherwise, it argues, nations would be empowered to impose their own set of legal norms outside of their borders.
In general, any excessive fear can be considered a phobia, but most phobias are "highly circumscribed," meaning they're very specific, says Franklin Schneier, MD, co-director of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic and special lecturer in psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center.
She would never have considered asking to be promoted as a producer, or so we can assume, for she recognizes the role to which she is circumscribed: the entertainment, a product to be sold by those who grip the reins.
It is unclear how exactly the duties of the position would be circumscribed, or if the board is merely signaling that it plans more rigid limits on the portfolio and authority of the president — whoever that is — in the future.
Also, Emma Woodhouse is good for social distance: She shows how to make the most of severely circumscribed circumstances, and how to make peace with the fact that, despite how hard you try, you can't bend the world to your will.
Mr. Trump would prefer the situation with Mr. Bannon to stabilize, according to people familiar with his thinking, and to keep Mr. Bannon on board, albeit in a more circumscribed role, than see him become a populist critic outside the gates.
But as he recalled in "How March Became Madness," a 2006 book written with Ron Rapoport, interest in college basketball was still so circumscribed that the telecast of the 1962 national final, in which Cincinnati defeated Ohio State, was seen only in Ohio.
Don Voisine has made a virtue of sticking to a highly circumscribed set of formal elements: oil paint on a wood panel; matte and glossy surfaces; identically colored bands across the top and bottom; and a configuration of black planes in the center.
"Most important, the process is narrowly circumscribed, providing the machine with a very limited degree of autonomy; unlike people, AI does not beget autonomy" — Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and a computer scientist at the University of Washington.
A little less than a week later, the evidently circumscribed supplemental background investigation is over and senators are again preparing to render a final decision on Kavanaugh, this time with some cover from the secret FBI report they are reviewing on Capitol Hill.
As ably proven by the Oulipian French writer, Georges Perec, who wrote a 300 page novel without using the letter "e" (La disparition, 1969) and by Voisine, working within his circumscribed geometric vocabulary, severe constraints and expressive freedom can go hand-in-hand.
This circumscribed consideration of race is consistent with the 14th amendment, in his eyes, because—in contrast to the "predominant" role of race at the Michigan law school—it is "indirect" and "contextual" and "does not operate as a mechanical plus factor for underrepresented minorities".
Kjartansson, whose parents were deeply involved in the theater in Iceland, is the most blatantly theatrical of artists, but the drama he is acting out here is one of restraint, of emotion that has settled itself in a circumscribed space and won't move beyond it.
One physicist — Igor Novikov — found that pastward time travel need not violate cause and effect or introduce the causal paradoxes that bedevil philosophers, and might be circumscribed by a "principle of self-consistency" in which one can travel to the past but cannot change it.
Matthew Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, said that some cities, including Duluth and St. Paul in Minnesota, have instituted more circumscribed bans than San Francisco's, but held off widening their reach when they saw the pushback from R. J. Reynolds.
Citing Mr. Guzmán's history of escaping — twice — from Mexican correctional facilities, the judge, Brian M. Cogan, ruled that he must remain in solitary confinement, with limited visitors and a circumscribed ability to communicate with the outside world, at least until he goes to trial.
Leaders of the current government, possibly including Mr. Maduro, would play a limited and predetermined role in the interim government — for example retaining control of national defense — but their powers would be circumscribed and would not include the economy and reform of the electoral system.
"Fighting With My Family" isn't much different, which is extremely and shrewdly on point for a movie about professional wrestlers with bigger-than-life personalities and flamboyant stage names who, in a circumscribed space, deliver precisely coordinated, rule-bound narratives of victory, agony and defeat.
While his work references the entrance of otaku subculture into Japanese fine art via Murakami, Makoto Aida, and Yoshitomo Nara in the 1990s, Umezawa has grown up in a world where otaku culture is increasingly global and can no longer easily be circumscribed within Japan.
The good news, if you can call it that, is that this means it's going to be relatively circumscribed and specific in its usage: Basically it works best when you know who you're looking for, and that means suspects or known offenders, and potentially missing people.
Since the early days of our republic, Americans have benefited immensely from our federalist system, in which states are generally free to set the rules of the road for their own citizens and businesses, but their ability to influence other states' citizens and businesses are largely circumscribed.
" Sam J. Miller on sex and political resistance: "It's easy to think of sex as something that is secret, and circumscribed, and it's something you do in the privacy of your own bedroom—or wherever—and it isn't for anybody to talk about or know about.
While that's given me a bit of worry that the Switch is going to take a big bite out of my already circumscribed reading habits, I mostly find myself marveling at how the Switch somehow fills a spot that laptops, tablets, and phones never really did.
For most of the time since 1945, he argues, democratic Europe was cosily circumscribed and sheltered: not just from communism by the Iron Curtain, but also from the world of Islam by the authoritarian secular regimes which held sway in North Africa and the Middle East.
Like most of the 800,000 citizens uncomfortably sharing real estate in Israel's contested capital, where Arabs and Jews are staked out on opposite sides and communities are often divided between the religious and the secular, everyday travel for Mr. Muna is circumscribed by lines real and invisible.
"While the dialogue will include many top-level Chinese technocrats, there is a widespread perception that their influence on economic policies and reforms has been circumscribed by the rising concentration of power in the hands of President Xi and a close circle of his aides," he said.
Their world is small and circumscribed, populated almost entirely by fellow Filipinos and not ranging far beyond pre-Silicon Valley Milpitas (where the author grew up), a prosaic suburb of San Jose whose distinguishing feature seems to be the potent scent wafting from the local landfill.
Muhammad's world was circumscribed on one side by the Mediterranean Sea, where he liked to swim at dawn, and by the borders with Israel and Egypt, largely sealed for most of the two million residents of the Palestinian coastal territory, which is run by Hamas, the militant Islamic group.
After a lengthy legal battle, the Supreme Court upheld the president's authority under the statute to issue such a ban, but not before the administration suffered defeat after defeat in the courts — each forcing officials to go back to the drawing board to create narrower, more circumscribed restrictions.
Malaysia's democracy is clearly flawed — the same coalition has ruled it since it became independent in 1957, and it has jailed opposition leaders on trumped-up charges — but it is not in the same league as countries like China and Russia, where freedom of speech is extremely circumscribed.
For years, African-American coaches have​ ​had an easier time being hired for defensive jobs​, their roles apparently circumscribed by the kind of stereotypes ​that have long steered black players toward defense and away from certain offensive positions — quarterback, in particular, but also tight end and the offensive line.
"In our view though, the issues raised cannot be circumscribed to H2O or a few H2O retail funds, but there are wider structural issues associated with the affiliate model to be reviewed and discussed, an opportunity which should not be missed," it added, keeping an "underperform" rating on Natixis.
He frequently made the basic error of conflating correlation with causation, and while Strumia claimed to be proving that there is no discrimination against women, his arguments were rooted in a circumscribed, biased reading of the data available, to the point of promoting a perspective that is biased against women.
But it fulfilled a basic human desire: to immerse oneself in a world that's vast but circumscribed, and traverse it from point A to Z. It's like following a baseball team intently for all 218 games; reading all of Graham Greene; looking at every Vermeer painting; watching all of Fellini.
There's much less from Latinos, which relates to my only criticism of this book: The men of color Orenstein quotes are, she admits, "a select, circumscribed group," and the same could be said more broadly for most of the book's interviewees, who seem to come from disproportionately economically secure backgrounds.
"The President's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis has recommended (p60) that data collection systems need to be improved and the data gaps need to be filled and revitalized using such novel approaches, such as testing wastewater in highly circumscribed regions for estimating drug metabolites," Ghaeli said in a statement.
These clusters of works give the impression not of a progressive exploration of narrowly circumscribed conceits, but of a compulsive return to an established pattern, a need to do the same thing over and over again, a fixation that feels more Adolf Wölfli than Sol LeWitt, but no less compelling for its repetitiveness.
The president's April 19 statement about "different opinions" and "balance" was more typical of official university responses on controversial matters — his earlier allegation that Jarrar's "disrespectful" comments went "beyond free speech" felt like a departure from the tightly circumscribed norms of academic institutions, especially because he was talking about a university employee.
His early actions, around Comey's firing, will be vindicated by history when seen by the light of his bravery and personal sacrifice and refusal to be bullied into quitting, a move that would almost surely lead to Mueller's investigation being shut down or circumscribed by whichever Trump appointee takes over supervising it next.
After the memoiristic work we called auto-fiction has come another kind of novel that, perhaps overwhelmed by the absurdity and sprawl of political reality, moves just beyond the self to draw highly circumscribed worlds — a trio of characters, say, absorbed in their own relations, in one setting, over a year or so.

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