How To Use Confining In A Sentence
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Critics of regulation effectively cede the offensive to statists by confining their critique to case studies of regulation gone awry.
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The fit should be snug but not confining - remember, they'll stretch a bit with use.
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a confining boxed-in space
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The ranges of mountains which nearly surround the valley of the springs, as they follow the course of the river down on each side, become greatly approximated to each other, and confining that stream to very small borders and compressed breadth, constitutes what is here termed the narrows; and again expanding or receding from each other, form Salt river valley.
Life in the Rocky Mountains
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Before the enactment of the rule confining the coachers to a limited space the coacher at third base sometimes played a sharp trick on the second baseman.
Base-Ball How to Become a Player
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For the immediate future, he will be confining his training to one night a week with each team.
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unfoldment" or "unwrapping" of the soul from its confining sheaths, one by one.
Reincarnation and the Law of Karma A Study of the Old-New World-Doctrine of Rebirth, and Spiritual Cause and Effect
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Confining himself exclusively to postwar moderns would net him only a handful of converts.
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Instead, the tendency seems to be for artists to speak in the airiest and least confining of generalities.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The one covers the outer surface of the body, the other the inner surface of the ventral wall; hence they are called confining or limiting layers.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
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The CFNS is based on a tokamak, which is a machine with a "magnetic bottle" that is highly successful in confining high temperature more than 100 million°C fusion plasmas for sufficiently long times.
Nuclear Fusion-Fission Hybrid Saves The Future
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Generally, the sand stiffness decreases by decreasing the effective confining pressure or increasing the shear strains.
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There are two strong reasons for confining the army to barracks.
Times, Sunday Times
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In particular, it said, the terms were too restrictive in confining the examination to just three hospitals and to deceased children under 12 years who were born alive.
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This sort of idealism is just the reverse of that which was held by the philosophers of antiquity and their Christian successors; it does away with the reality of ideal principles by confining them exclusively to the thinking subject; it is a spurious idealism which deserves rather the name "phenomenalism" (phenomenon, "appearance", as opposed to noumenon, "the object of thought").
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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I hope he feels sprung from a confining and broken system and produces work that reflects his newfound freedom.
Matthew Yglesias » Benen on Matt Cooper
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But is it right that our appetites wreak havoc on a country most of us have never been, and where grinding poverty of a kind that's been eliminated in even the most benighted, neglected corners of our own country is as common as it is confining?
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In the vast majority of plant species, it is not possible to remove the epidermis intact, confining direct measurement of epidermal transmission largely to mesophytic plants.
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The unanimous decision that brought the end to his reign was due, in no small part, to the champion's decision to try and outbox his more skilled opponent, confining the use of his power advantage until the later rounds.
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Many such programmes are unnecessarily harsh and increase isolation by confining the patient to bed.
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These will increase the storage capacity of the space when area is a confining factor.
Times, Sunday Times
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When a person such as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is already in custody, there is an alternative to killing him -- namely confining him for life.
Alan Dershowitz: Targeting Mugniyah Was The Right Thing
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They also changed their rules of gathering, confining themselves to a fortnightly meeting during Parliament's sessions.
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With its body-hugging grooves and easy-to-grasp handles, the $224 river bodyboard makes it possible to ride big rapids safely without having to sit inside some confining raft or kayak.
Hey Dude, Let's Catch Some Rapids
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The battery extension assembly includes a hollow cylindroid body, a confining structure and an elastic holding member.
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It may be a better place than the auction block, but it is just as confining, which is why I urge that we dismantle both.
Pedestals and Auction Blocks: On Black and White Women
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There are two strong reasons for confining the army to barracks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Transporting captive animals entails confining them in our sense - they do not live well while cooped up - and may result in injury or death.
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The electrons exert a pressure on the ions just like an ideal gas exerts pressure on the walls of a confining box.
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He issued this order under the notion of confining the attention of the clergy to the holy scriptures!
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
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And so, as guards frogmarched my friend out of the courtroom shackled hands to feet, I wondered how confining that man for 17 years jives with my understanding of our nation's values.
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It is possible that India and China can advance by using their own resources and confining themselves to autarchic systems.
Energy and Society~ Chapter 16~ Energy in a Contracting System
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Safety valves are needed only when pressure builds within a confining system.
Times, Sunday Times
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Where Hughes, convulsed with adoration, agonised over the "engineering problem" of simultaneously freeing and confining her breasts, she simply threw aside the seamless, aerodynamical "bullet" bra he made for her and covered her own with Kleenex to achieve the same effect.
The Economist: Daily news and views
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However, working within genre films, whether horror, high-school or romantic comedy, is a more confining situation.
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Confining the insane in close quarters was only a reflection of the prevailing standard of living rather than an expression of callousness.15
The Mad Among Us
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I guess what you must ask yourself is are you prepared to date someone who eroticizes race in a way that may be confining to your individual personality?
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They quarantined the city workers' struggle, confining it within the political straitjacket of collective bargaining and appeals to the big business politicians.
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Perhaps the adjurations are against confining the remedial provisions by reference to common law doctrines and limitations.
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The engineers said their workplace was confining and their furniture was cumbersome.
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Gerald, I am sorry to do this but I hereby demote you to the rank of ensign and I am confining you to your quarters till further notice.
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Reuchlin minimized the value of the ancient Platonists and the other non-Christian prisci theologi, confining his concept of ancient wisdom mainly to works in the Jewish and Christian religious traditions, though he was also influenced by Ficino and Pico.
Loss of Faith
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They branded and succeeded in confining the growth of the DK to Tamil Nadu.
Why are South Indians so smart?
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This book contextualizes women who have been out there since before queer theory but without confining them in any way.
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As cloth after cloth is removed, the light seems to grow brighter and stronger, and yet it has changed not, the change being in the removal of the confining and bedimming coverings.
A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga
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By confining small fish to living in suboptimal foraging habitat, predation may have important sublethal effects on populations.
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Most dramatically, the state can use the fact of a prior conviction as the basis for confining someone in a mental institution, even after he has completed his prison sentence.
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This can be due to increasing confining pressure (mechanical compaction), tectonic stress in impervious sediments or hydrothermal activity.
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105 bars confining pressure was applied to prevent leakage in between the cylindrical face and the membrane.
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Otherwise it will yield little or no water from the impermeable confining layer.
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A good teacher really does keep pointing the way upward and forward, and really does let the student grow without confining him in a cage.
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Even when the appropriate staff were available routine malpractices, like reusing unsterilised needles and confining patients to their beds for hours on end, continued.
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Confining roses to pillars or other vertical structures may be a better option.
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Confining units are further subdivided by some workers into aquicludes and aquitards.
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The government is confining its own people to unskilled low-paying jobs.
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Nebbou wisely lets the story and performances speak for themselves, confining his personal flourishes mainly to an extravagant "orientalist" ball that Dumas stages at his chateau.
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Worst of all, Hull is to fill up with giant, brightly coloured fibreglass toads, a stunt so loopily against the spirit of the two poems that are their inspiration – "Toads" and "Toads Revisited", in which the squatting toad, impossible to shake off, is both a symbol of work and of the narrator's timid and confining personality – I find myself wondering whether their creators have actually read either one.
In search of the real Philip Larkin
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Still, confining the import of these two compositions to political commentary is limiting, just as it is limiting to contrast Plato the master of Socratic elenchus and Isocrates the master rhetorician.
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The lock on this door had never been designed with the idea of confining a thief.
Take A Thief
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Removal of water from compressible materials such as silt and clay can lead to compaction of the confining unit and subsidence of the land surface.
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She deprives language of its mimetic function, confining it to the site of its utterance and apprehension rather than using it as a tool to comprehend the world.
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Cora refused to wear such a confining and uncomfortable article of clothing as the wimple, which wrapped around a woman's head and neck.
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In a brilliant coup de theatre, we first see him in what appears to be a poky little confining room, which as the play starts, expands into a cosy living room decorated for Christmas.
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Following one teaching is not a way of confining you or jealously monopolizing you.
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There were no words confining the cover to a period while actual repairs were taking place.
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The increase of pore pressure due to cyclic loadings under undrained conditions causes the effective confining pressure and the shear strength of the soil to decrease.
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This final section describes practices such as confining children for indefinite periods in six-by-nine foot cells, abuses that led to the appointment of a court-ordered monitor for Eufaula.
2008 November 13 « One-Minute Book Reviews
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There are two strong reasons for confining the army to barracks.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are two strong reasons for confining the army to barracks.
Times, Sunday Times
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In which we shall begin with the first general part of the text, to wit, the dehortation itself; and so confining our discourse wholly to this at present, we will consider in it these three following particulars.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
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These data consist of raw facts, as free as possible of confining hypotheses.
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Can you share some popcorn and a drink, this cage is a little confining to me?
The Tail Section » LOST - Are the others Scientologists?
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There are two strong reasons for confining the army to barracks.
Times, Sunday Times
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But, with the onset of the Age of Enlightenment in the West, the idea of confining warfare to the battlefield was, if not adhered to, at least given lip service.
Painting a Target on Ourselves
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There are the pieces barely there in form, undefined and tentative, as if they were emerging from the confining blob of clay.
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They need to go out in the middle of a sinkhole area and try to find the confining layer - to see if it covers a truly broad area - but they don't do that.
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Magda pushed her consciousness out, out, beyond the confining walls of the sanitarium.
PAINT THE WIND
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Administrators responded with an institution lockdown, confining all prisoners to their cells.
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Sex under the trees was a common enough sight in Ku Kuei, and I wasn't under any delusion that I had been confining my lovemaking to Saranna because of any overconcern with faithfulness.
Enjoyment
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Safety valves are needed only when pressure builds within a confining system.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many such programmes are unnecessarily harsh and increase isolation by confining the patient to bed.
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According to WNW condition, a systematic analysis about the restraints from GUT on chiral three-preon model with confining weak interaction is discussed.
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Now, of course, now that she had been freed of the psychological chains, the confining restrictions, the imprisoning inhibitions of the free woman, I had little doubt that she, and perhaps even soon, would prove to be a helplessly arousable, helplessly yielding slave, a joy both to herself and her masters.
Cinnamon Roll
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Victorian conceptions of women's comportment and their place in society as well as everyone else's place in the Victorian age seem strange and confining.
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Confining our conversation to firearms, the most common working gun of the farmer or homesteader in the late 19th century was the double-barreled shotgun.
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Most of the posters here are lumping semi-science, Bruce-Banner-was-hit-by-gamma-rays type stuff in as magic, but for the purpose of my post, I'm confining the term magic to refer to effects that are not accompanied by science-ish explanations
Magic
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These will increase the storage capacity of the space when area is a confining factor.
Times, Sunday Times
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He expends all his energies reacting to the incessant, queasy lurch of the metallic object confining his limbs.
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These days Brown seldom grants interviews, confining most communications to his website.
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Premier Stofile had said workers were "first citizens before they were workers" and added that in previous decades the ANC had rejected the notion of confining trade unions to factory issues only.
ANC Daily News Briefing
