Prices and conditions were so controlled that there was little scope for initiative.

At first, there was little scope for anything much beyond licensing agreements.

"It's just a little scope to make a minor repair," the agent said.

There would also be little scope for independent research or foreign study in a three-year bachelor of arts.

"Two inches from dead center," says my boyfriend, Rock, who is already a good shot, focusing his little scope on the target.

The terrain is very hilly, providing little scope for agriculture.

There are countries with much and little scope for production and growth.

Authoritarian regimes have come to power and leave little or no scope for political opponents.

Their lives fell into definite patterns and there seemed to be little scope for invention or discovery.

But there was little scope for the activities of a young and energetic subaltern.