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Both the family and the order were circumscribed in 1990.

There were too few of us to circumscribe the fire.

The words you spoke earlier, girl and woman, they have always circumscribed my life.

No painter ever has been circumscribed by the here and now.

They do not even suspect how circumscribed their lives are.

They realized their small decisions were often circumscribed by race.

And the central area plan was circumscribed by the rights of the city's main shops.

But since 1980, at least eight have acted to circumscribe the practice.

But these were all in areas circumscribed by the church as spiritual matters.

The limits of the horizon, too, had become much circumscribed.

Yet the power of the press within sport has until recently been severely circumscribed.

Each circumscribes a detailed world of country, home, school, university, museum.

Politics would be less contentious if state authority were circumscribed.

But it is a god whose powers are strictly circumscribed.

But this day, like all his days, is circumscribed by race and the responsibilities that come with being a black man in a poor place.

In the performance of their duties, the police enjoy similar, though more circumscribed, rights.

They are still far too much circumscribed in their employments.

It circumscribes our ability to lie - to ourselves and to others.

Do you know something, there comes a time when the principle of liberty for all has to be circumscribed.

For the people who have stayed in their mixed neighborhoods, life has become circumscribed.

Most of the modernization is taking place within carefully circumscribed limits.

But these did not circumscribe the hill, they ran towards the plain.

He found a ditch which circumscribed the fort just outside the walls.

Under the present government, some fundamental freedoms, including freedom of the press, are circumscribed.

While Levin's power may be real, her status and independence are clearly circumscribed.