Peter Fleming from the Local Government Association, which represents local authorities, told BBC Radio 5 Live the government had not given councils enough control over the scope of cuts they could pass on.
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"Political control of issues of scope, content and evaluation in the universities should be specifically excluded from any forthcoming legislation, " it adds.
Anna Macdonald, Oxfam's head of arms control, said the scope of the weapons covered in the latest draft is still too narrow.
Lawmakers from both parties are also wary of losing more control over decisions on the scope and pace of infrastructure development, a key area of federal spending that they can direct to their states and districts.
Yet, when the hundreds of hours of legislative debate, on camera pleas, backroom negotiations and intense lobbying have ended, groups like the National Rifle Association may find that they have narrowed the scope of gun control legislation.
He says the new city deals - and other moves the government has been taking to give Britain's "city regions" more scope to pool and control their own resources - are genuinely encouraging.
Republicans' 52% of the House popular vote in both years came in response to unpopular expansions of the size and scope of government gun control and Hillary Clinton's attempt at health-care reform in 1994, ObamaCare and the stimulus package in 2010.
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By reassuring markets that America will control its debt, the government will have more scope to boost the economy in the short term if need be for instance by temporarily extending the Bush tax cuts.
Any network, especially one the size and scope of the internet, needs a centralized control mechanism for operational stability.
The scope of automation is circumscribed by the management systems that control equipment in the data center.
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Other initiatives, such as the large-scope Operation Bot Roast -- an active campaign to track down botnets, find operation control centers and the organizations behind them -- have been only partially successful, as several holes remain in the overall infrastructure.
It also set off a train of other initiatives that limited politicians' scope for action: three-quarters of the state's budget is now outside their control.
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