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Ambit
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A boundary line that indicates ownership of a parcel of land as opposed to other parcels; an exterior or enclosing line. The limits of a power or jurisdiction. The delineation of the scope of a particular subject matter.
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The public political conversation, I note in the German weekly Junge Freiheit (January 20, 2006), operates entirely within a "left liberal" universe of discourse, and those who define its ambits here and in Europe have no intention of letting in other critical perspectives.
The conservative movement in discontinuity by Gottfried, Paul / Modern Age
Religious experience could be intensely personal (and self-interested), many confraternities operated within sub-urban or extra-urban ambits, and beyond the city, territorial as well as civic governments increasingly asserted a role in shaping the religious lives of their subjects.
Out of the Margins: Religion and the Church in Renaissance Italy [*] by PETERSON, DAVID S. / Renaissance Quarterly
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