But to come within its ambit, a group must engage in some form of expression, whether it be public or private...
From relatively simple projects to build roads and bridges and the like, large chunks of public spending have fallen within its ambit, including Labour's much-trumpeted new schools and hospitals as well as prisons (see article) and mid-air refuelling jets for the Royal Air Force.
Although America's Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) specifically targets the bribery of government officials, many of China's largest companies retain strong government ties so may come within its ambit.
Originally limited to providing "material support" in the form of money or weapons to groups the federal government has deemed terrorist organizations, the statute's scope has now been broadened, in the cases of Mr. Padilla and of John Walker Lindh, the so-called American Taliban, so that a defendant is within its ambit by providing only himself as "material support".
We discuss this landscape and the considerations for using resale price maintenance within its ambit.
FAO can offer guidance in those fields which fall within its ambit, but the priority of for example, industrial or agricultural development cannot be imposed from without.
The bourgeois revolutionaries overthrew the ancien régime in the name of freedom and equality for all – and though these ideals were "packed with tacit or explicit clauses excluding women, the poor, slaves and many other groups from its ambit" (Callinicos, Equality), the universalism of these ideals had a tendency to breach these morally arbitrary, power-determined limiting clauses.
But the result is oddly minor, so local in its ambit that it almost disappears.
Now it presumes to extend its ambit to the way the Internet operates.
For the media, such a conversation, particularly if its ambit expanded from denouncing the BBC's seemingly chronic blindness concerning celebrity predators to the casual brutality of newsrooms and newsdesks, with their iron-clad hierarchy of "innocent" victims and habitual offenders, is bound to be uncomfortable.
Mr. Hazare wants the prime minister and the judiciary to be included in its ambit.
