The ambit of municipal legislation.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Noun : the ambit of such an action.    From Dictionary.com. 

The TRC statement did not touch on the crucial issues of the case, namely the ambit and scope of the TRC's functions, and the conduct of Boraine in particular.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Domestic spying does not seem to come within that ambit.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 19, 2005] Reference

Why did they not simply remove themselves from the ambit of the tunnel?.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

It is critical to note which actions cannot fall under the ambit of Sect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Preliminary Memorandom Referral Office Of Independent Counsel] Reference

Under the ambit of the FEDSAW and the ANCWL they, for instance marched to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Editorial] Reference

The danger is that no one knows the precise ambit of the risk entailed by such drastic ation.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hybrid Conservatorship Model for Greece?] Reference

The purpose was manifestly to make the ambit of review under the Act at least as wide as at common law.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review Aspects of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Erebus Aircraft Disaster C.A. 95/81] Reference

Many of these new lucrative careers also require young people to relocate outside their families 'ambit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rebel Brides And Ex-Wives] Reference

QUEST: Are you in favor, within the ambit (ph) of a cap and trade system, of a speculative trading nature?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2009] Reference

Each constituent body will need to ensure that it is indeed representative of all sectors within its ambit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mayibuye Editorial] Reference

FIELDING: But what do you do to check the accuracy of information that comes from outside of your own ambit?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 13, 2004] Reference

Hence Deir Yassin fell well within the ambit of Plan Dalet: of which Operation Nachshon was merely an element.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

South Africans prefer to see their leaders expressing their views peacefully within the ambit of these bodies.    From Wordnik.com.  [ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT A BREAKFAST MEETING OF THE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS ASSOCIATION] Reference

The question of a Leader of the House and his/her responsibilities and status should fall within the ambit of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Building a United Nation] Reference

That issue was not within the ambit of the Silverman-Robb Commission, and it is what his critics are talking about.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2005] Reference

We believe that Africa is poised for success, given the determination to tackle these issues within the ambit of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks during the official luncheon hosted by the Cape Verdean Prime Minister Jose Maria Neves] Reference

CONAN: David, I think a lot of people would agree that that's well within the ambit of Dr. Martin Luther King's words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rallies And Counter-Rallies Compete For King's Legacy] Reference

Also, courts have broadened the definition of “sexually explicit” conduct that falls within the ambit to this law.    From Wordnik.com.  [Metacafe Traffic Dips, Acquisition May Have Stalled] Reference

Your classroom teaching and your publications in your area of competence are within the narrowest ambit of academic freedom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with William Patrick Murphy, January 17, 1978. Interview B-0043. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

Where conditions have been made about the ambit of a profile or interview, we should acknowledge (without specifying) these.    From Wordnik.com.  [It’s time for journalists to be honest about their corrupting involvement with PR] Reference

These structures will also ensure that regions and branches develop detailed action plans within the broader ambit of this programme.    From Wordnik.com.  [STATEMENT OF THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS ON THE OCCASION OF YEAR 93 OF THE ANC] Reference

Court does that, if it does so within the normal ambit of judicial interpretation, that is a subject for Florida's Supreme Court to take.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S Supreme Court Oral Arguments] Reference

Though Simon had exchanged the odd word with Tatenor within the ambit of this and previous races, he preferred to dislike him cordially at a distance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salvage for the Saint]

And operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan, reinstitution of the draft would be, sort of, beyond that ambit, but Barbara, thanks very much for the call.    From Wordnik.com.  [Op-Ed: Afghanistan Objectives Need Revisiting] Reference

We could debate the truth of that matter for literature: the expansion of copyright's ambit to cover plotlines and characters makes it more questionable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference

Is there jurisdiction in the Courts to review in such a context as this taking into account the ambit of ss. 3 and 4 of the Judicature Amendment Act 1972?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review Aspects of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Erebus Aircraft Disaster C.A. 95/81] Reference

The opposition Conservative Party confirmed plans in its manifesto to bring financial supervision and the FSA back within the ambit of the Bank of England.    From Wordnik.com.  [How the FSA May Dwarf the Central Bank] Reference

But when (for dubious jurisdictional reasons) it sorties beyond its traditional ambit of patent law, it is stunned by the potential expansiveness of the DMCA.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference

And with that in mind, my mother and I will be out at D.C. General today to receive our treatment insofar as we fall within this ambit, within this perimeter.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2001] Reference

Into that old story, thought Cadfael, studying him with pleasure and interest, you, my lad, fit far better than into the ambit of bishops, and well you know it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Eyton Forest]

And everything I did was within that ambit, with the one possible exception of the letter I wrote to the newspaper in which I did defend the function and role of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with William Patrick Murphy, January 17, 1978. Interview B-0043. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

I think when the Florida Supreme Court does that, if it does so within the normal ambit of judicial interpretation, that is a subject for Florida's Supreme Court to take.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Breaking News: U.S. Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Bush Challenge of Florida Recount - December 11, 2000] Reference

I understand that when Chuck paints and he's feeling especially good about his work he does it to the music of Aretha Franklin, which brings him into my ambit of the arts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks By The President At Fape Dinner] Reference

Striking the right balance, while promoting competition in the wireless industry and protecting individual rights, is beyond the ambit of the DMCA or the Copyright Office.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cell Phones Freed! Poor Suffer?] Reference

We do not normally think of rights over expression (the realm of copyright) threatening to sweep within their ambit an entire new technological invention (the realm of patent).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference

So despite the fact that Hamas was in observance, Israel, rather than simply move their forces away from the ambit of the 'immediate and dangerous threat', broke the ceasefire.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

And we, therefore, think if it is not to fuel the criminal problem, it is a matter that we have to address within the ambit of the cooperation to which we have pledged ourselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [President Press Conference With Caribbean Leaders] Reference