Scope in a sentence as a noun

I don't think they have any grasp on the sort of massive scope changes like this would require.

"The information demanded by the DOJ is sweeping in scope.

But I am certain that the NSA has been lying about the scope of their collection and it's legality.

That means understanding the scope and requirements of the problem being solved and then coming up with a system that meets them.

The main thing that this new release reveals is not the scope of the data collection, but confirmation that analysts are given free reign to perform queries.

We need to completely disband the TSA. Structural adjustments are not going to fix its scope creep, conflict of interest with the military industrial complex, and lack of competence.

For every such executive and professional who would be deemed "helped" by overtime laws that might be extended to apply to their jobs, there would undoubtedly be many who would recoil at the limitations of suddenly not being able to do their jobs without regard to the scope of hours worked.

I had clerked for a federal judge who applied "old school" philosophy to the handling of civil disputes - that is, let the parties have maximum scope within the rules of civil procedure by which to fashion and try their cases, with the judge doing minimal supervision as needed just to keep them in bounds.

If claims were triable by jury, and if a party elected to have them tried by a jury, this right had to be preserved at all costs and it was regarded as inappropriate for a judge to be too aggressive in attempting to screen and bounce claims at any part of the pretrial stage or to use too much authority at the trial itself to limit the scope of assertable claims.

Scope definitions

noun

an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "a piano has a greater range than the human voice"; "the ambit of municipal legislation"; "within the compass of this article"; "within the scope of an investigation"; "outside the reach of the law"; "in the political orbit of a world power"

See also: range reach orbit compass ambit

noun

the state of the environment in which a situation exists; "you can't do that in a university setting"

See also: setting background

noun

a magnifier of images of distant objects

See also: telescope

noun

electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities

See also: oscilloscope