0 present participle of circumscribe --
1 to limit something: --
However, the framework will be an international legal instrument circumscribing the global spread of tobacco products.
Our discipline has spent relatively little time on the former route and has increasingly taken the second path, progressively circumscribing an increasingly specialized behavioral paradigm that rarely reflects real-world behaviors.
Globalization, so the argument goes, is increasingly circumscribing the autonomy of the modern state, leading to what some observers call 'neo-liberal convergence'.
Circumscribing these difficulties, restrict the proportionality rule to situations where all individuals are interested in the expected level of utility they'll receive from a social randomization.
The constitution provides the formal and legal framework for governance, but the informal and ' virtual ' discourse circumscribing political activity has blurred the lines of demarcation between government, front, and party.
Dominant disciplinary practices, by circumscribing our understanding of the way international politics is constituted, have denied international actors this capacity to think through the consequences of their actions.
In particular, the intergovernmental agreements of the 1990s certainly had a strong circumscribing impact.
She strongly suggests that "circumscribing the variable context" of the linguistic variable be both a starting point and ending point in variationist analysis.
