Through complacency and bitter experience, the scope of progress has narrowed.
The economic and fiscal squeeze has narrowed their scope for tax reform too.
A8 Belgium Eases War Crimes Law Belgium has narrowed the scope of a contentious law that allowed its courts almost unlimited freedom to try foreigners for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
[C3.] Judge Narrows Scope of Stent Trial A federal judge has narrowed the scope of a dispute between Boston Scientific and Medinol, the Israeli company it worked with in 1995 to get into the stent business.
Even Siemens has narrowed its scope, selling most of Epcos, a components manufacturer, and a minority stake in Infineon, a semiconductor maker, in the past couple of years.Can Siemens confound convention?
For now she has narrowed the scope of the case to the firm's shopping service: if the outcome is that Google has to abide by certain principles over this matter, these could then be applied in others, such as whether Google makes it hard for advertisers to take their data to other platforms.
'P' is for Petroleum 9 June 2006 The American Chemical Society has narrowed the scope of the half-billion-dollar Petroleum Research Fund.
Over the last few decades, the fossil fuel lobby has narrowed the scope of conversation around climate change: it's unrealistic to substantially cut emissions, more research is needed, and individuals shall do their part by planting trees, changing light bulbs, and driving hybrids.
Will it be dominated by supporters of the school reform movement — who tend to oppose teachers unions and favor the spread of charter schools and linking teacher evaluations to students' standardized test scores — or by those who say the reform movement is anti-teacher and that it has narrowed the scope and creativity of education?
In some respects, this has forced us to clarify aspects of our design, but in many others, it has narrowed the scope of our research aims, and set up several ethically problematic conditions for doing the research (problematic for us).
