Science falls outside my sphere of competence.
"In my sphere, I don't know almost anyone who doesn't work out," she said.
I cannot make it seem right and yet perhaps there may be my sphere of usefulness.
Within my sphere, I have maintained a steady kind of exterior path, outside of the mainstream.
Even so, I consider any request for something that lies outside my sphere of emotional interest — "Hi.
(My eldest would no more take a lunch box to school than he would allow me to walk him to the classroom and kiss him goodbye: his school cafeteria is entirely out of my sphere of control).
"If this loyalty were to go as far as to become a network or even a kind of secret society, I would not tolerate it in my sphere of decision making.
Yet the burden on me to that end is immeasurably more than that upon the average person: I write for a living, I communicate professionally and, debatably, I have some effect on policy and politics in my sphere.
What you need to do, Bob, with great respect, is get in and talk to Phil Hufton [head of London Undergound], talk to the team at LU [London Underground], who are more than happy to engage in these issues, which you know perfectly well are not within my sphere of competence.
[Freedom or parole] does not enter my sphere of thought".
