1175 examples of scope in sentences

Letters of inquiry on any | | point of interest within the scope of Journal will receive | | prompt attention.

Islâm has no clergy, as we have seen; the qualification of a man to have his own opinion depends entirely upon the scope of his knowledge or rather of his erudition.

Observe the critical period at which he has chosen to impute the calumny!on the very eve of the publication of our last numberaffording no scope for explanation for a full monthduring which time, I must needs lie writhing and tossing, under the cruel imputation of nonentity.

I dare say it is not in the scope of your Reviewbut if you could put it into any likely train, he would rejoyce.

Only my reader must remember that of none of my poets am I free to choose that which is most characteristic: I have the scope of my volume to restrain me.

The scope of his mental visuality no longer included the figure of the agent from the private detective bureau.

When one sleepy-eyed planet went in, another, not far away (from the human scope of survey) came out, and Francois, with the perspicacity of a follower of the sea, seemed to have learned how to gage direction by a visual game of hide-and-seek with the pin-points of infinitude.

While under the charge of Dr Glennie, he was playful, good-humoured, and beloved by his companions; and addicted to reading history and poetry far beyond the usual scope of his age.

Mr. M'Queen said he did not believe the second sight; that he never met with any well attested instances; and if he should, he should impute them to chance; because all who pretend to that quality often fail in their predictions, though they take a great scope, and sometimes interpret literally, sometimes figuratively, so as to suit the events.

The scope and character of the regulations required to accomplish these objects vary as the conditions of life in the country vary.

Inventions and discoveries succeeded the new scope for energies which the Crusades opened.

The war became wider in its scope; the insurrectionists at first met with success; but in spite of their desperate valor the Hungarian forces were finally overthrown by the aid of a Russian army; and their leader, Goergy, was compelled to surrender to the Russians on August 13, 1849.

There are numerous other poems and collections of poems, but these show the scope of his work and are best worth reading.

Nevertheless, the Morality marks a distinct advance over the Miracle in that it gave free scope to the imagination for new plots and incidents.

Be our psychology what it may, however deep and irrepressible our taste for derring-do, however inadequate the scope which the dull routine of modern life affords for our adventurous impulses, we are most of us anxious to avoid the risk of great financial loss.

What I want is scope for dreams.

HOLDEN: Are you sure we'd have the dreams after we've paid this price for the scope?

In one very important respect, the Morality marks an advance, by giving more scope to the imagination.

Under court influences, the drama enlarged its scope and was no longer chiefly the vehicle for religious instruction.

When he was graduated, the dramatic profession was the only one that gave full scope to genius like his.

There is reason to doubt the truth of this story, and Shakespeare may have sought the metropolis merely because it offered him more scope to provide for his rapidly increasing family.

He lives quietly at home out of the noise of the world, and loves to enjoy himself always, and sometimes his friend, and hath as full scope to his thought as to his eyes.

With remarkably delicate tact the older tragedy had never presented the dramatic element, to which it was unable to allow free scope, unmixed, but had constantly fettered it in some measure by epic subjects from the superhuman world of gods and heroes and by the lyrical choruses.

There are, I assure you, to my positive knowledge forty-threeand in one island in the South Seas, forty-fourdifferent methods of doing murder, any one of which would be entirely beyond the scope of the introspective agencies at the ordinary disposal of society.

The right to "take property" for State uses is one thing;the right so to adjust the tenures by which property is held, that each may have his own secured to him, is another thing, and clearly within the scope of legislation.

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