circumscribe

• Reveals that the CIA sought to "circumscribe" a policy of humane detainee treatment "so as to limit its application to the CIA." —  American Torture
• As far back as 1906 it is known, and can be proved by the files of New York papers, to say nothing of official correspondence now found in Brussels and elsewhere, that measures were started by England to circumscribe or isolate the German Empire, and treaties were entered between England, France, and Russia (the Triple Entente) to insure joint action against Germany when necessary Germany herself has been peaceful, progressive, and anxious to retain her position as a nation undisturbed by others, as a nation that should advance in art, in science, in population, and in all things that make happiness through peace. —  The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe
• The basis of this relation is, undoubtedly, a periodical recurrence of masses of ideas, which our voluntary determinations have, in one peculiar direction, no power to circumscribe or to arrest, and against the recurrence of which they can only imperfectly provide. —  A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays
• The first step to be taken must be to endeavour to circumscribe their limits. —  Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion
• Nor fix on fond abodes to circumscribe thy prayer. " —  The Age of Fable

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