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The court found the DRG to be disproportionate, not well circumscribed and prone to abuse.

But it could lead to far smaller codebases, and our lives as software developers would be less circumscribed.

They could send you to the principal for corporal punishment, but his options were strictly circumscribed.

We are shaming him because he chose to join a long line of people who have circumscribed marriage in the name of tradition or fear or ignorance.

If you go bankrupt, you will lose friends, and your employment opportunities will be circumscribed in a manner similar to being on a blacklist.

I predict that it will eventually come out that other European nations have similar secret treaties, and that their sovereignty is circumscribed by such treaties.

We are responsible for the consequences of our actions, but our obligation to our fellow man is circumscribed by context and reasonable expectations.

Thus no man of philosophical cast, however circumscribed by poverty or retarded by ailment, need feel himself superfluous so long as he holds the power to improve the spirits of others.

But I don't find such circumscribed historiography particularly compelling.

Hence, protective laws were passed and these circumscribed the old unrestricted freedom to have pure at-will employment relationships that gave an employer an open ticket to fire people for any reason whatever, even a repugnant one.

From the article:> [A]ccess to the main street will be restricted to people with company-issued braceletsJustice White, for the Court:In places which, by long tradition or by government fiat, have been devoted to assembly and debate, the rights of the State to limit expressive activity are sharply circumscribed.