A lack of electricity and gasoline has severely circumscribed all aspects of daily life, leaving most people at home with nothing to do.

"Thus my publishing potential after release from prison was severely circumscribed," he said.

Inevitably, their vision will be severely circumscribed by now-obsolete security considerations.

Yet the power of the press within sport has until recently been severely circumscribed.

Unlike other states, their authority was severely circumscribed; actual power rested with the five elected ephoroi.

Britain is a constitutional monarchy and the political role of the royal family is severely circumscribed.

Because of all this, the bookmaker's life in Costa Rica is severely circumscribed.

His contacts with the boy Pharaoh were still severely circumscribed by Naja.

These developments have severely circumscribed the possibilities for diplomacy between the United States and Iran.

O'Donnell has a budget for scholarships, but his recruiting is severely circumscribed by the school's requirement that students be professing Christians.