The doctor, with the air of a man whose professional interests have found scope, drew Alex's attention to those excellences which might otherwise have escaped him: the fine color in comb and wattles, the length and quality of neck and saddle hackles, the firm, wide spread of the toes, and a rare justness in the formation of the ear lappets.

What Sam Rayburn's life proves to us all is the magnificent lesson in political science that one can devotedly and with absolute dedication represent the seemingly provincial interests of one's own community, one's own district, one's own State, and by that help himself represent even better the sweep and scope of the problems of this the greatest nation of all time.

The purely selfish kinds of coercion are a form of predatory behaviour by the coercing party, whose aim is to narrow down the scope of other people ’ s actions so as to make them instrumental to its own personal interests.

Beyond minor naval actions against British imperial interests, the Napoleonic Wars were much less global in scope than preceding conflicts such as Seven Years ' War which historians would term a " world war ".

Other priorities are obtaining " additional development assistance from potential donor countries ", widening the scope of Tuvalu's bilateral diplomatic relations, and, more generally, expressing " Tuvalu's interests and concerns ".

Most IEEE members are electrical and electronics engineers, but the organization's wide scope of interests has attracted people in other disciplines as well ( e. g., computer science, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, biology, physics, and mathematics ).

The bilateral commercial and trade interests of both the countries are continuing, although there is considerable scope for greater engagement.

The terms " myopia " and " myopic " ( or the common terms " shortsightedness " or " shortsighted ", respectively ) have been used metaphorically to refer to cognitive thinking and decision making that is narrow in scope or lacking in foresight or in concern for wider interests or for longer-term consequences.

Instead, we are concerned with those areas generally understood as being within the scope of library and information science ( LIS ) and the interests of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.

This Act was an improvement because for two reasons — inclusion of minority interests in the board of trustees as well as broadening the scope of the devasthanams to include study and dissemination of religious practices and knowledge.

There were increased demands for effective regulation of business, a revived commitment to public service, and an expansion of the scope of government to ensure the welfare and interests of the country as the groups pressing these demands saw fit.

Its personnel, its interests, its ideology, and its commitments were national in scope.

The 1711 Sales Auction Catalogue reflects the wide scope of Browne's amateur hobbies and diverse interests.

All states have a geographic scope of interests, actions, or projected power.

In June 1710 Handel accepted the appointment of Kapellmeister to Georg's Hanover court, under terms that gave him considerable scope to pursue his own interests.

By the time she was well established as a Roman goddess, the scope of her interests and patronage had broadened to include at least painting, poetry, drama, and teaching.

It also expanded the scope of the CEA to cover the previously listed agricultural products and “ all other goods and articles, except onions, and all services, rights, and interests in which contracts for future delivery are presently or in the future dealt in .” Existing non-exchange traded financial “ commodity ” derivatives markets ( mostly “ interbank ” markets ) in foreign currencies, government securities, and other specified instruments were excluded from the CEA through the “ Treasury Amendment ”, to the extent transactions in such markets remained off a “ board of trade .” The expanded CEA, however, did not generally exclude financial derivatives.

… opening up qualitatively more space to give expression to the intellectual and cultural needs of the people, broadly understood, and enabling a more diverse and rich process of exploration and experimentation in the realms of science, art and culture, and intellectual life overall, with increasing scope for the contention of different ideas and schools of thought and for individual initiative and creativity and protection of individual rights, including space for individuals to interact in " civil society " independently of the state – all within an overall cooperative and collective framework and at the same time as state power is maintained and further developed as a revolutionary state power serving the interests of the proletarian revolution, in the particular country and worldwide, with this state being the leading and central element in the economy and in the overall direction of society, while the state itself is being continually transformed into something radically different from all previous states, as a crucial part of the advance toward the eventual abolition of the state with the achievement of communism on a world scale.

In the hero's restricted and local scope he " retained the limited and partisan interests of his mortal life.

This was both as a result of a large Tamil community in South India, as well as India's regional security and interests which attempted to reduce the scope of foreign intervention, especially those linked to the United States, Pakistan, and China.

Years later, his obituary published in his former newspaper captured the scope of his editorial interests.

Even when an agent is defrauding his principal, unless the agent has totally abandoned the interests of the principal and is acting entirely in his own, or another person's, interest, that agent is acting within the scope of his agency.

Regarding the length and scope of the U. S. involvement in Iraq, Mullen told the Senate that while he does not envision permanent U. S. bases in Iraq, " vital interests in the region and in Iraq require a pragmatic, long-term commitment that will be measured in years, not months.

* Size: in general, the larger an organization is in terms of members, the more scope its members have to engage in opportunist behaviour, since the larger it is, the less individual members are practically able to check or control the behaviour of many other members, and the more possibility there is that groups of members will develop self-serving interests that deviate from the stated goals of the organization ( for example, Robert Michels refers to an iron law of oligarchy ).

In establishing criterion measurements, it was therefore thought best to broaden the scope beyond the reading act itself.

National identification was not new, but it was accelerating in intensity and scope throughout Europe as new unifications occurred.

It was `` window '' -- the tinsel paper dropped by bombers to jam radar sets, to fill the scope with hundreds of blips that would seem to be approaching bombers.

King Farouk of Egypt was a generalist with a collection famous for its scope and variety.

Despite occasional entanglements with European Powers such as the War of 1812 and the 1898 Spanish-American War, U. S. foreign policy was marked by steady expansion of its foreign trade and scope during the 19th century, and it maintained its policy of avoiding wars with and between European powers.

The scope of this school was not limited to theological subjects ; science, mathematics and humanities were also taught there.

It was first used to describe the Christian Church in the early 2nd century to emphasize its universal scope.

Paralleling other 18th century encyclopedias, its scope was expanded beyond that of earlier publications, in an effort at comprehensiveness.

' In the wide scope this would then read: It is not the case that there existed a philosopher of Greece who was bald.

In the narrow scope it would read the Philosopher of Greece was not bald.

Since independence Eritrea's relationship with Ethiopia was entirely political, especially in the resuscitation and expansion of IGAD's scope.

The use of a sequence of experiments, where the design of each may depend on the results of previous experiments, including the possible decision to stop experimenting, is within the scope of Sequential analysis, a field that was pioneered by Abraham Wald in the context of sequential tests of statistical hypotheses.

Euripides's use of lyrics in the sung portion of his work shows the influence of Timotheus of Miletus in the later plays the individual singer gained prominence and was given additional scope to demonstrate his virtuosity in lyrical duets between actors, as well as replacing some of the chorus's functions with monodies.

" The bill was often international in scope, with many European performers augmenting the American artists.

The time scheme correlated the history with the reigns of the Roman Emperors, and the scope was broad.

In the 1980s President Ronald Reagan sought to curtail scope of environmental protection taking steps such as appointing James G. Watt who was called one of the most " blatantly anti-environmental political appointees ".

Though his work was based on syntagmatic structure, it gave the scope to understand the structure of folktales, of which he discovered thirty one functions.

For a number of years this volunteer led festival has concentrated mostly around film but, starting in the Year of Highland Culture-Highland 2007, its scope was widened, and it dropped the ' film ' from its title.

" The decision was also taken to shoot the film in a ( 2. 35: 1 ) scope ratio ( Tohoscope ) and to film in color ( Eastman Color ), marking both monsters ' first widescreen and color portrayals.

This edition both loosened the connection between RuneQuest and Glorantha, introducing ' Fantasy Europe ' as the principal game world for Rune Quest, and much broadened the scope of Glorantha, which was treated as an alternative game world.

( See Browser wars ) These included extensions to control stylistic aspects of documents, contrary to the " belief the academic engineering community that such things as text color, background texture, font size and font face were definitely outside the scope of a language when their only intent was to specify how a document would be organized.

Hoover's chief objective was to address the growing casualty toll of traffic accidents, but the scope grew and soon embraced motor vehicle standards, rules of the road, and urban traffic control.

The first was scope.

Per its original Bylaws, primary responsibility for policy formation in ICANN was to be delegated to three supporting organizations ( Address Supporting Organization, Domain Name Supporting Organization, and Protocol Supporting Organization ), each of which was to develop and recommend substantive policies and procedures for the management of the identifiers within their respective scope.