The phrase "exceed the scope of" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to describe a situation or activity that is not covered by the rules, regulations, guidelines, or authority of a particular situation. For example, "The proposal to add new features to the software exceeded the scope of the project as outlined in the contract."
Yet it also shows his penchant for leaping to broad cultural verdicts that exceed the scope of his evidence.
Before that ruling, several appeals courts had said that such deals were legal as long as they did not exceed the scope of an unexpired patent on the name-brand drug.
Last month, the American Bar Association's Center for Human Rights issued a report asserting that the treaty, as currently drafted, did not exceed the scope of American trade statutes that already regulate the import and export of weapons.
Intel is promising a marketing campaign that will exceed the scope of its effort to promote its Pentium 4 microprocessor, and the company predicts that Wi-Fi will ultimately break the bottleneck that has limited the rollout of broadband, or high-speed, Internet access to more than a fraction of United States households.
The 11th Circuit Court in Atlanta ruled in 2003, 2005 and 2012 that a brand-name company had the right to make deals with competitors to protect its patent as long as the agreements did not exceed the scope of the patent.
They are based on speculations that clearly exceed the scope of contemporary quantum theory.
In one opinion, the court said that for years the "N.S.A. exceeded the scope of authorized acquisition continuously".
The unions representing guards and counselors at state facilities criticized the agency's new policy for exceeding the scope of the court's ruling.
The company said that "high-pressure flow from the well created conditions that exceeded the scope" of the blowout preventer's design parameters.
Finally, some newer crimes, such as cybercrime, can be fought only by using an extensive array of technology that exceeds the scope of police technology proper.
