circumscription

Example Sentences

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That said, the impact of Mr. Cervas’s circumscription has already been profound, creating the likelihood of highly competitive general-election campaigns from Long Island to upstate New York.

From New York Times

The most unscrupulous of them would seize on a favorable result in one circumscription to claim overall victory, with the help of a corrupted or naive media.

From Washington Post

Supreme Court, which accepted New London’s sophistical argument that virtually erased the Constitution’s circumscription of government’s eminent- domain power.

From Washington Post

It is, the video makes clear, not a victory that they are inhabiting the roles of these formerly white characters — it is a circumscription of their blackness.

From Salon

Although a species' taxonomic status is crucial to its conservation status and the data on populations and threats are assessed by strict criteria, no guidelines for species circumscription exist.

From Nature