How To Use Circumscription In A Sentence
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It was Agassiz's declared belief that man had sprung not from a common stock, but from various centres, and that the original circumscription of these primordial groups of the human family corresponded in a large and general way with the distribution of animals and their combination into faunae.
Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence
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However, there are other ecclesiastical circumscriptions in the Church which are delimited on a personal -- and not territorial -- basis, for various pastoral needs.
Archive 2008-04-01
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BOOK: Bit beyond the unbearable circumscription of Alcestis's life, yes.
In Conclusion, I Hate You All
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The Armenians have other circumscriptions opearating under similar circumstances.
Motu Proprio "Ecclesiae Unitatem" - in English
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This is because the limits of the circumscription of an ICZN-taxon can only be approximated using the species and diagnostic characters listed by the author.
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Accordingly, researchers in logic-based AI have put a lot of effort into developing a variety of non-monotonic reasoning formalisms, such as circumscription (McCarthy 1986), and investigating their application to the frame problem.
The Frame Problem
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Hijacking astronomical argot from “white dwarves” to “red giants,” Big Bang explodes from this empty center with an elliptic circumscription of parodic pseudo-charts and de-functionalized cosmological notions.
/ubu Editions, Third Series: 12 New Titles : Kenneth Goldsmith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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Enes introduces a system of circunscrições indígenas (native circumscriptions) and divides the Lourenço Marques district into five circumscriptions, each with its own administrator, to formalize colonial rule at the local level.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
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Although Paillard's writings do not reveal whether he was aware of growing commercial interest in Magude's riverine soils at the time the mission acquired the two concessions, he anticipated a land rush that gathered pace in the circumscription from the 1920s onward.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
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It's been an uphill battle against the tight circumscription of roles dictated by magazines and fortified by generations of well-meaning mothers trying to help their children make their way in the world.
Chauncey Zalkin: A Better Way To Represent Women
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McCarthy & Hayes 1969 with the need for a nonmonotonic logic, and sketches the logical ideas of domain circumscription, which is now classified as the simplest case of circumscription.
Logic and Artificial Intelligence
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Vassal chiefdoms were the building blocks of a colonial administration, grouped together first under the authority of military posts and then into circumscriptions and districts that were assigned to Portuguese officials and within which appointed African chiefs (régulos) were to serve as frontline agents of colonial government, conscripting labor and collecting taxes, and replaced or eliminated when necessary to ensure the continued functioning of the system.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
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These prose pieces ultimately acquire a kind of poetic intensity of effect in their bleak circumscription of the character's experience, although they avoid self-consciously "poetic" devices:
Narrative Strategies
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We are going to meet to examine the official records of all the circumscriptions and then start our deliberations," the president of the electoral commission, Apollianire Malu Malu, told AFP.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Many people seem to think that this search effectively ended in the late 19th/early 20th centuries, when novelists discovered realism, enhanced by modernist experiments in "psychological realism," and thus added these approaches to the earlier emphasis on storytelling, but I think that such an arbitrary circumscription of the novel's further development is effectively a renunciation of the form's own history as an "exploratory" practice.
Experimental Fiction
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If he find a dearth in this, if it seem to him a circumscription, he does not know Christ, as the 'pleroma', the fullness.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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However in the realm of morals, there is space for people to choose to outbreak the circumscription with the help of their free will and take responsibility for their choices.
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Blessings be on all traditions, on all safeguards and circumscriptions!
The Waves
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For when I consider how short were the laws of ancient times, and how they grew by degrees still longer, methinks I see a contention between the penners and pleaders of the law; the former seeking to circumscribe the latter, and the latter to evade their circumscriptions; and that the pleaders have got the victory.
Leviathan
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But the spirit of great ones was above these circumscriptions, affecting copper, silver, gold, and porphyry urns, wherein Severus lay, after a serious view and sentence on that which should contain him.
Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
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Delusion, if delusion be admitted, has no certain limitation; if the spectator can be once persuaded, that his old acquaintance are Alexander and Caesar, that a room illuminated with candles is the plain of Pharsalia, or the bank of Granicus, he is in a state of elevation above the reach of reason, or of truth, and from the heights of empyrean poetry, may despise the circumscriptions of terrestrial nature.
Preface to Shakespeare
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When, as occurs at times, a priest of the prelature's clergy is called by the Holy Father to the episcopate, the same thing happens as with any diocesan priest: He ceases to be incardinated in the ecclesiastical circumscription from which he comes, although he continues to receive spiritual assistance from the prelature.
Archive 2008-03-30
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The distribution of life in the rivers and lakes of Brazil, the immense number of species and their local circumscription, as distinct faunae in definite areas of the same water-basin, amazed him; while the character of the soil and other geological features confirmed him in his preconceived belief that the glacial period could not have been less than cosmic in its influence.
Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence