Judges may be trained to confine themselves to the legally relevant facts before them.
We no longer have to confine the life span of the LED to the life span of the converter.
Perhaps, she said mischievously, she was a little old-fashioned, content to confine her writing to more respectable themes, such as murder.
One task of the inquisitor in a deposition is to confine the person being questioned to simple yes or no answers.
But it is not enough to confine the current debate on immigration reform to a narrow argument about the future of illegal immigrants.
Were the Bush administration to confine itself to such tactical responses to the present crisis, however, it would be making a grave error.
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He had a map approved by the Dutch, showing a tight quadrant of land within which his team was to confine its work.
Some think that, if it were to confine itself to the well-governed parts of the globe, the World Bank would scarcely warrant its title.
Thompson is limited by law in his scope, dogged by Democrats to expand the probe and pressed by his own party's conservatives to confine it.
He welcomed the call to allow second trials but said it was "irrational" to confine the change in the double jeopardy rule to just murder trials.
International conventions are an essential tool for protecting marine biodiversity, given the lack of physical barriers in the ocean to confine species to a single zone.
India is trying to confine its counter-offensive to its side of the line of control, hoping to deny Pakistan any pretext for escalation (see article).
The second is to try to reach a new political settlement, but to confine talks only to those political parties that have no connection to violence.
The magnetic traps employed to hold the antihydrogen are only strong enough to confine it if it is colder than around half a degree above absolute zero.
Incapable of all restraint, it is sure to vanish from the fetters that are contrived to confine it, and to expand and flourish under the influence of liberty.
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Ideally, the government would have preferred to confine the inquiry to an analysis of the discrepancies between the intelligence assessments and the reality on the ground in Iraq.
For much of the past three decades, the army managed to confine the guerrillas to remote jungles and mountains, where they impinged little on the economy and national life.
As the United States attempts to march forward toward a student-centric education system powered by digital learning, creating geographic barriers to confine a medium the Internet that inherently knows none, is absurd.
That's not so unusual for a mature product line, but it has been something that Apple has tended to confine to the lower-end product and a move that indicates confidence in healthy sales volumes.
In its judgement, the Court determined that the UK was entitled to confine the vote to those citizens with a "close connection" to the UK and those "who would be most directly affected by its laws".
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As a result, the Constitutional Court was chosen to be constructed right next to Johannesburg's Old Fort Prison, a notorious building whose walls had served to confine two of the best know civil rights figures of the previous century.
It says its objective is to spread jihad to West Africa rather than confine itself to the Sahel and Maghreb regions - the main focus of AQIM.
That, in turn, predicts at any given moment which regions of the bay will wash pollutants out to sea and which will confine them to the coast.
To be sure, if you confine yourself to listed options, you may not find exactly the maturities and strike prices you want.
The growth and opening up of many countries that were previously closed to international business have substantially increased the size of the international market, from being confine to North America, Western Europe and Japan to embarking most parts of the world.
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If the Kurdish rebels stick to their political guns and confine themselves to peaceful methods they could still cause plenty of trouble for the Turkish establishment.
Obama signaled earlier this month he was prepared to assert a vigorous constitutional right to marriage, but confine it for now only to the Proposition 8 matter and perhaps to the seven other states with civil union laws like California's.
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Obama had signaled last week he was prepared to assert a vigorous constitutional right to marriage, but confine it for now only to the Proposition 8 case and perhaps to the seven other states with civil union laws like California's.
Impossible to stand up in, these shoes confine the wearer to recumbence.
India continues to insist that it will confine its counter-attack to its side of the line of control for fear of provoking a wider war and destroying the goodwill of foreign powers, such as the United States and even China, traditionally an ally of Pakistan's.
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