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An area within which something or someone exists, acts, or has influence or power
More serious cases come within the purview of the an-sat, a judicial auxiliary of the governor.
The island is treated as an outlying territory; it has not been brought within the full purview of the Japanese constitution.
4 Taking his labours as a whole, there cannot be a doubt that he enormously enlarged the purview of naturalists, and, even if limited to birds, that, on the completion of his work upon them in 1783, ornithology stood in a very different position from that which it had before occupied.
The Hawaiian Islands came within the purview of George Vancouver, following the course of Cook in 1791.
He was also appointed on a Royal Commission to inquire into Irish university education, including Trinity College, an institution which had been excluded from the purview of former commissions.