But the number and scope of the legal threats to Obama appear unprecedented.
But as a top Obama transition official told me, these were limited in number and scope and all done in the open.
I was informed that the decision was made "on the basis of top-line government priorities for reducing the number and scope of public bodies".
Instead, Pakistan and the United States agreed to consider a series of other joint efforts, including increasing the number and scope of missions by remotely piloted Predator aircraft over the tribal areas.
The Getty Museum will also reduce the number and scope of its temporary exhibitions and collection rotations, although no major exhibitions that have already been publicized have been canceled.
He also published a letter on Tuesday asking the government for permission to reveal more information about the number and scope of national security requests, and Microsoft and Facebook followed suit.
In the case of the Ngram Viewer, the body of books in different languages may not be comparable, for instance.Yet few will grumble as the number and scope of international rankings mushroom.
(Answer: before 2007, it helped everyone; afterwards, it redistributed jobs rather than creating them).As the number and scope of trials have grown, the accumulation of detail has started to generate broader insights.
The agency created an antifraud unit in 2010 to increase the number and scope of reviews of immigrants applying for documents, the officials said, with the number of antifraud officers increasing by 20 percent since then.
Judge I. Leo Glasser, who is overseeing the case, reduced the number of defendants, limited the number and scope of the charges and, last week, barred the testimony of certain key plaintiff's witnesses.
Drastic funding cuts by the government have sharply reduced the number and scope of restorations that can be carried out each year, and private sponsorship is not widespread in Italy.
