It has gone far beyond its initial scope of protecting original inventions or cultural products and now permits the practice of patenting plants and animal forms as well as seeds.

Nonetheless, the NSF's scope has expanded over the years to include many areas that were not in its initial portfolio, including the social and behavioral sciences, engineering, and science and mathematics education.

The primary objective is to scope the system adequately as a basis for validating initial costing and budgets.

During the initial stages of their work, from 1987 to 1994, the team was unaware of the true scope of the tomb.

While initial conflicts were relatively minor and confined to the imperial capital of Luoyang and its surroundings, the scope of the war expanded with each new prince that entered the struggle.

The centre was successful in attracting tourist, school groups and conferences for a number of years, however initial visitor number predictions proved to be too ambitious and Powys Council were unwilling to prolong its subsidy and with little scope for alternative investment Celtica closed in March 2006, and the house stood empty while Powys County Council sought to relinquish responsibility for it in line with their policy of selling many of their publicly owned buildings.

In addition, the upper section should provide an overview of the full scope and timeline of the project and will be part of the initial project description effort leading to project approval.

* A pilot project refers to an initial roll out of a system into production, targeting a limited scope of the intended final solution.

Since MIT Lincoln Laboratory ’ s establishment, the scope of the problems has broadened from the initial emphasis on air defense to include programs in space surveillance, missile defense, surface surveillance and object identification, communications, homeland protection, high-performance computing, air traffic control, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance ( ISR ).

The younger Vince, much to his father's initial concern, set out to make the WWF national and eventually worldwide in scope.

The scope of theories also expanded to cover myth from all parts of the world, where the initial field was mainly classical mythology and myths from areas adjacent to the Roman Empire.

The scope and reach of these auctions have been propelled by the Internet to a level beyond what the initial purveyors had anticipated.

After the establishment of the initial baseline design, the project evolved extensively, growing in scope and cost.

The final act was substantially more limited in scope than the initial white paper.

This is well beyond the scope of the initial search, and what is covered by the payment to the intermediary.

The initial scope of the investigation was focused on CISPES leadership and especially its DC headquarters and Dallas chapter.

An initial inquiry check for availability of dock space and repair berth, vessel draft restriction, repair scope compared with yard work load estimating and forward any queries.

Because they govern the initial presentation of evidence in a trial, the Rules primarily serve to govern federal trial courts rather than appellate courts, as appellate courts, due to their function and scope address very few questions touching upon the facts of a case.

The initial study completion also gives the project applicant opportunity to change their project scope early in the CEQA process if the initial study indicates significant impact ( s ) are likely.

Colette, who had believed that the work would never be complete, expressed her extreme pleasure, believing that her modest writing had been raised beyond its initial scope.

While XLR8R ’ s initial focus was on electronic music, it has over the years widened its scope to include indie rock, hip-hop, and reggae / dancehall music as well as related trends in style, art, fashion, and technology.

In its initial years Tagore expressed his dissatisfaction with the word ' university ', since university translates to Vishva-Vidyalaya, which is smaller in scope than Visva Bharati.

3G. IP developed the initial IMS architecture, which was brought to the 3rd Generation Partnership Project ( 3GPP ), as part of their standardization work for 3G mobile phone systems in UMTS networks.

The terminal discovers its P-CSCF with either DHCP, or it may be configured ( e. g. during initial provisioning or via a 3GPP IMS Management Object ( MO )) or in the ISIM or assigned in the PDP Context ( in General Packet Radio Service ( GPRS )).

`` Damn you, Adams '' -- Jess was beginning to recover from his initial shock.

As he talked about himself, time and again stuffing and dragging on his pipe, Steinberg began to relax and the initial hurried feeling grew faint and was dispelled.

With facts mainly in his mind, he was often acute in the matter of style, and he said, `` The young who have as yet nothing to say will try larks with initial letters and broken lines.

In each case there was an initial act of violence.

This aircraft, which was planned for initial operational use about 1965, would be complementary to but likewise competitive with the four strategic ballistic missile systems, all of which are scheduled to become available earlier.

A satisfactory cloud was produced even though these nozzles were only about 5 per cent efficient in producing an initial cloud in the size range of 1 to 5 microns.

In this case, then, the military objective was accomplished with an epidemic agent solely through the results secured in the initial attack.

Such a dual derivation was strikingly demonstrated during the injection process where initial filling would be noted to occur in several isolated pleural vessels at once.

At no time was it implied by the experimenter that the subject's initial reaction was deviant.

There was no implication made that their initial reaction ( absence of an arm-elevation ) was less preferred than the presence of levitation.

Moreover, it is too readily forgotten that in the Republic what gave the initial impetus to Plato's excursus into the construction of an imaginary commonwealth with its ruling-class communism of goods, wives, and children, was his quest for a canon for the proper ordering of the individual human psyche ; ;

The initial setting of the availability table indicated that the index word or electronic switch was not available for assignment.

For the initial development an oxidation pond was constructed as shown in Figure 1.

One of his initial acts in office was to appoint Philip Coombs of the Ford Foundation as the first Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs.

One of Mrs. Kennedy's initial concerns as First Lady was the sad state of the furnishings in a building which is supposed to be a national shrine.

One of the initial questions put to President Kennedy at his first news conference last January was about his attitude toward a meeting with Premier Khrushchev.

Her initial intelligence tests registered above normal and her adaptation index was unusually high.

Seward's initial reaction to the Trent affair, however, was too bellicose, so Lincoln also turned to Senator Charles Sumner, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an expert in British diplomacy.

The study of altruism was the initial impetus behind George R. Price's development of the Price equation, which is a mathematical equation used to study genetic evolution.

The first is called the initial arraignment and must take place within 48 hours of an individual's arrest, 72 hours if the individual was arrested on the weekend and not able to go before a judge until Monday.

The Glagolitic alphabet was the initial script of the liturgical language Old Church Slavonic and became, together with the Greek uncial script, the basis of the Cyrillic script.

Johnston's initial call upon the governors for more men did not result in many immediate recruits but Johnston had another, even bigger, problem since his force was seriously short of arms and ammunition even for the troops he had.

Abbreviations have been used as long as phonetic scripts have existed, in some sense actually being more common in early literacy, where spelling out a whole word was often avoided, initial letters commonly being used to represent words in specific application.