Sentence examples for means and scope from inspiring English sources

Bobby's distracted mother (Ms. Davis), a needy widow of limited means and scope, has other things on her mind than raising an adolescent.

The deaths underscored the limited means and scope of Triton, an EU-run mission which took over in November from the Italian navy's Mare Nostrum search and rescue operation.

Austerity means the shape and scope of local public services need to be radically re-thought.

On the basis of this pioneering report, Shibasaki's group then systematically investigated the potential of these catalysts (also by computational means) and their application scope and also applied them for demanding syntheses of biologically active (natural) products.

For MakerBot, that means limiting the size and scope of its product line as the company adjusts to life after the implosion of the 3D printing hype cycle.

It was a war whose complexity and scope meant that no one man was indispensable.

Sub-committees are a means of giving trustees space and scope to delve into the detail and to enable staff to seek a broader perspective.

Part of their agenda included passing a number of "Liberal Reform Laws". The first of those laws, called the Juárez Law (named after Benito Juárez, the Minister of Justice), was meant to restrict the authority and scope of the Church courts.

What does "reducing the size and scope of government" mean?

On the one hand, more transparency means less scope for corruption and profligacy.

Glueing the charter so firmly to Parliament that it would take a major upheaval (and daunting political arithmetic) to force a change means the scope of the self-regulatory body could not easily be changed.