By spring, it would assume broad responsibilities to oversee the awarding of city contracts and franchises, powers that have been the sole purview of the board.

To exclude terrestrial ecoregions, he argues, is to exclude biodiversity, drainage basin, river, and other resources that are under the sole purview of states to protect.

Perhaps the focus should be on Congress's habit of federalizing crimes that were once within the sole purview of state courts.

Sabbaticals, once the sole purview of academia, are showing up at more and more companies these days.

Slowly but surely, American companies are starting to give lower-level employees financial goodies that were once considered the sole purview of management.

The measure was enacted by an overwhelming margin, and the review board once again came under the sole purview of the New York Police Department.

Narrative direction was the sole purview of the writer, with character design left to the artist.

As a result of this transition the institute came under the sole purview of the Government of India.

Prenuptial agreements are no longer the sole purview of wealthy men who want to keep their assets if their marriages go sour.

Motley's critics claim that such a role is the sole purview of the government's foreign policy and diplomacy.