ambit
noun
Origin of ambit
Examples from the Web for ambit
Contemporary Examples of ambit
They have come within the ambit of law enforcement by violating some law: drunk driving for example.
This approach easily sweeps Assange and WikiLeaks into its ambit.
Whether they are in the ambit covered by Madoff's alleged help to the SEC is not publicly known.
Historical Examples of ambit
I saw for the first time an horizon as an arc suggesting how wide is our ambit.
The Sea and the JungleH. M. Tomlinson
But he determined the key to the solution lay within that ambit.
If Winter ComesA.S.M. Hutchinson
The purpose was manifestly to make the ambit of review under the Act at least as wide as at common law.
Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review Aspects of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Erebus Aircraft DisasterSir Owen Woodhouse, R. B. Cooke, Ivor L. M. Richardson, Duncan Wallace McMullin, and Sir Edward Somers
Is there jurisdiction in the Courts to review in such a context as this taking into account the ambit of ss.
Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review Aspects of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Erebus Aircraft DisasterSir Owen Woodhouse, R. B. Cooke, Ivor L. M. Richardson, Duncan Wallace McMullin, and Sir Edward Somers
This simile to Nonconformity also holds good a little when we seek to ascertain the ambit of Richardson's popularity.
Res JudicatAugustine Birrell