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Domestic spying is outside the purview of the CIA.
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She will not answer questions on the topic -- saying it is outside her purview and competence.
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This kind of rumor usually falls under the purview of conspiracy theorists.
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Family law matters are traditionally the purview of state courts.
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This follows from the fact that if the BTDUs (rolls) are stationed, while inactive, outside of the purview of the controlling office (i.e., the office that has collectively purchased the BTDU)-that is, if the BTDUs are stored, for example, in a lobby area or within the facility in which they are actually utilized, they will be subject to pilferage and "shrinkage" as unauthorized persons consume them, either as part of a conscious effort to pilfer or out of an honest misunderstanding, i.e., a belief that the BTDUs are being provided free of charge by the operating agency (in this case the United States Government), or as the result of necessity, as in the case of a beverage spill that is encr† (source)
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The explanation was the same: a dangerous error had been made, beyond the purview of Dragonfly.† (source)
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Best to limit your purview to straight ahead.† (source)
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One can almost hear a unified sigh rise from the nearby city and surrounding countryside where Nature has intervened to give respite to the weary humans slogging it out within her purview.† (source)
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Verifying that claim is beyond the purview of this book.† (source)
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It is not often I have young Shadowhunters so close within my purview.† (source)
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She was acutely aware that this was a job that lay well outside her purview at Milton, and she knew Armansky would be furious if he found out what she was doing.† (source)
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One, two; one, two; the heart beats in serenity, in confidence, in some trance of well-being, in some rapture of benignity; and look—the outermost parts of the earth—pale shadows on the utmost horizon, India for instance, rise into our purview.† (source)
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Yet, with her prescience, she was aware of dooms and sorrows outside her lover's purview.† (source)
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At that Mr. Heelas fled precipitately upstairs, and the rest of the chase is beyond his purview.† (source)
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This tale from very early in the Troy-story lies outside Homer's purview, but he appears to have remodeled it in the first book when Akhilleus is begging his mother to intervene with Zeus on his behalf: the hero reminds Thetis that she has a claim on Zeus, rehearsing a story of how she had once saved him from a revolt among the gods by enlisting the support of Briareus, "more powerful than the sea-god, his father.† (source)
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...No, of course they couldn't; it was not what interested them; they had other priorities and did not care to be burdened by problems beyond their purview.† (source)
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