be hedged in

An additional 10 percent is hedged in other ways.

What sort of expose would it be hedged in with maybes?

All the gardens had gates that opened into the meadow, but now every single one is hedged in, closed off.

Suppose indeed that we were hedged in by limitations of comprehension we could not comprehend?

It was hedged in with trees.

We are hedged in with difficulties, all of us, my poor fellow, but, please God, we shall come through them all right.

"I would think that a substantial portion of the takedown was hedged in the futures market," he added.

In each case, the reforms were hedged in with clauses designed to preserve leeway for the authorities.

They pressed in on me to take me living, till I was hedged in with a ring of swords.

Even so, the Price Overseas Bond Fund was hedged in 1992-93, up to its legal limit.

Originally, the whole park was hedged in by a fence of cactus, and in 1890 a bandstand was built with money raised by private theatricals.

The rest of the field is hedged in by the crowd: a man couldn't raise his arms in it, never mind aim six feet of a longbow."

Looking down the hill, it seemed to me that I was looking down a narrow slot that was hedged in by a flapping curtain of very dirty gray.

The path narrowed and turned; it was hedged in by dense creepers which knotted tree to tree, and burst here and there into star-shaped crimson blossoms.

On three sides we are hedged in by lilacs, crape myrtles, vitex and other flowering shrubs, and by conifers, especially Leyland cypresses.

While they are hedged in several ways to insulate an investor from volatility, the sheer volume of the trades and the electronic speed of them have sent shudders through the markets.

As the front-runner for his party's nomination, he is hedged in by his rivals, especially Phil Gramm, who accused him of selling out even before a budget deal had been struck.

This pronouncement was hedged in with many subtle qualifications, and the Spanish crown was never efficient at enforcing it, but it can be regarded as the fount of human rights law.

The aim of moral inquiry is sound moral judgment, but judgment in hard cases is frustrated because the crux of the matter is hedged in by a potentially limitless parade of particulars.

Though some conclusions are hedged in careful language in the 135-page draft report, committee members said in interviews that they were consciously departing from the past scientific consensus and taking a strong stand on a politically and scientifically volatile subject.

Mr. Gorbachev apparently feels he can live with the word so frequently used by his rival, Boris Yeltsin, provided it is hedged in with a word like states in the limited American sense, and follows the key word union .

In the present divided state of the Church, truth itself is torn and divided asunder; and, therefore, he is the only true Catholic who has more of truth and less of error than is hedged in by any divided part.

Thus, the city area located south of the Dâmboviţa between Podul Isvor and Piaţa Unirii and up to Antim Monastery was hedged in by a large triangle of standardized concrete blocks of flats.

Their farm, the oldest in the state still owned by one family and one of the oldest in the nation, Federal figures show, is hedged in by a Caldor shopping center on one side and more than 400 luxury condominiums on another.

If sterling were at higher interest rates than the US$, then clearly this represents a cost to the bank in that it has foregone a return in sterling better than that available in US$, so that exchange risk can be hedged in the way described.