What's the difference between ambit and purview?

Ambit


Definition:

  • (n.) Circuit or compass.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Jubilant Democrats are eyeing so-called “red states” such as Georgia and Utah and expanding their ambitions to take both the Senate and House .
  • (2) The award for nonfiction went to New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos for his book on modern China, Age of Ambition .
  • (3) "My great ambition is to be president of a golf club where I am playing," he teased .
  • (4) So far, there is little sign of similar hubris at the Human Brain Project, a far more complex undertaking, but perhaps for the moment Markram's ambition is precisely what is needed.
  • (5) Photograph: KHIZR KHAN This sombre, serene oasis overlooking the Potomac river might also prove the graveyard of Donald Trump’s ambitions for the US presidency.
  • (6) Britain’s troubled relationship with the EU has provided Boris Johnson with nothing but fun since he first made his name lampooning the federalist ambitions of Jacques Delors as the Daily Telegraph’s Brussels correspondent in the early 1990s .
  • (7) President Obama's ambitions for new nuclear reductions?
  • (8) As Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, said when he published the initial white paper back in 2010: “At its heart, universal credit has a simple ambition – to make work pay, even for the poorest.
  • (9) "The player [Suárez] is amazing and I love his quality, commitment and ambition to play," said Mourinho.
  • (10) Some … actually dropped to the low end of their ambition ranges, which have led small island states to ask, 'Why is this?'
  • (11) Archbishop Eliud Wabukala of Kenya said the “truth [of the Gospel] continues to be called into question in the Anglican communion” and warned against “the global ambitions of a secular culture”.
  • (12) As important, if not more so, as his ambition to make exams tougher is his hostility towards other measures of ability, such as course work and controlled assessments.
  • (13) And Bristol, I guess, is following on because it has an ambition to become something similar.” According to Key, Bristol’s congestion problems are only as bad as those of other UK cities, and it’s “streets ahead” on walking and cycling .
  • (14) The company recently announced its ambition to reach a valuation of $50bn, but it is unclear how much Uber is worth if it has to start picking up expenses it has up to now pushed on to the shoulders of its drivers.
  • (15) If the ambition set out by the world’s heads of state in New York is ever to be achieved, the global tax system needs more than just a sticking plaster.
  • (16) But concerns about a slowing economy, jobs, civil rights and a lack of progress in the Kurdish peace process appear to have combined with worries that Erdoğan could assume quasi-dictatorial powers to thwart the president’s ambitions.
  • (17) Ian Macfarlane signals frontbench ambition after defecting to Nationals Read more But the deputy leader of the Nationals, Barnaby Joyce, pushed back at the criticism, saying it was not unprecedented for people to move between the Coalition parties and noted it was not as significant as ousting a prime minister.
  • (18) Susan Rice, US ambassador to the UN and a former frontrunner to replace Clinton as state secretary, saw her political ambitions cut short after she suggested that the attack could have originated from a spontaneous protest over an anti-Muslim US-made film.
  • (19) In this context, it is hard not to wonder whether a scheme on the scale and ambition of Packington, located as it is in a sea of valuable central London real estate, could ever be replicated.
  • (20) For Davutoglu, this ambition entails a "comprehensive" approach embracing enhanced economic, cultural and social ties as well as political and security relations.

Purview


Definition:

  • (n.) The body of a statute, or that part which begins with " Be it enacted, " as distinguished from the preamble.
  • (n.) The limit or scope of a statute; the whole extent of its intention or provisions.
  • (n.) Limit or sphere of authority; scope; extent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although geropsychiatric nursing or mental health nursing with the elderly (MHNE) can be conceived of as a new subspecialty in psychiatric mental health nursing, in essence it is as old as nursing itself, for caring for people of all ages has always been within the purview of nursing.
  • (2) Freud's shift to the fantasy theory of neurosogenesis defined the investigation of intrapsychic life as our fundamental theoretical purview.
  • (3) In 1975, ASHP broadened its purview to represent pharmacists who practice in all types of organized health-care settings.
  • (4) Data reported in this paper also bring into purview the concept of internally controlled variation.
  • (5) While that’s not the governor’s purview to do that they indicated at the state level that they wouldn’t provide services,” Miller told the Guardian.
  • (6) The public health role was further limited in 1970 by the removal of much of environmental pollution from its purview.
  • (7) But the inquiry is clear that it is not within its purview to instigate prosecutions as a result of any allegations bought to its attention.
  • (8) That's assuming, of course, that the purview of Fisa approvals is exclusively "terrorists overseas," when a large part of the concern is the possible violation of Americans' privacy.
  • (9) The development of subspecialty training accreditation is the purview of the Residency Review Committees (RRCs) of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).
  • (10) Food and Drug Administration officials have also expressed a strong interest in reviewing these research protocols, which NIH considered within its purview.
  • (11) After much counting it has been estimated that the number of substances that will come under its purview is 143,000, give or take a sodium lauroamphoacetate or two.
  • (12) And the decision to remove the issue from parliamentary purview shows his respect for that institution depends on the political moment.
  • (13) However, management engineers need to work with hospital administrators who understand the field and who can expand their expectations beyond the traditional areas normally thought of as being within the purview of management engineering.
  • (14) But I hear it constantly from some of the precious petals, can I say, some of the precious petals in the science fraternity, and if you can’t guess, I won’t accept it.” Australia had a dedicated science portfolio in cabinet since the 1930s until Abbott’s decision to fold the role into Macfarlane’s purview.
  • (15) It cannot be overemphasized that the delivery of health care services is not exclusively within the purview of any one profession; rather, interdependence and sharing of responsibilities and activities in a team approach are characteristics of the human health system.
  • (16) Is a condition such as congenital syphilis within the purview of pediatric emergency medicine?
  • (17) Since this legislation excludes groups such as Muslims, Christians, and Parsis from its purview, there has been a demand for national legislation providing a uniform adoption law for all the communities in India.
  • (18) The survey results suggest that interest in and use of anabolic steroids are common, rather than the exclusive purview of competitive athletes.
  • (19) It’s actually that racial bias criminalizes black communities.” Comey also responded to questions about drug prosecution and police militarization, systemic issues in the law-enforcement community – if not directly under the FBI’s purview – that have come to the forefront in the last six months without federal reform.
  • (20) This discussion had also give rise to the purposes of the present study, that is, to outline such a qualification programme within the purview of the Dortmund labour exchange, including participants' opinions of the measure.

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