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That didn’t happen here because Drozd, an Obama appointee, can recognize a factitious claim for standing when it swims into his ken.

He was also recruited to civic leadership roles that were beyond the ken of politically-hobbled government bureaucracies.

When Mani audited a course on theoretical physics, it was generally assumed that the material would be "beyond her ken", Sur observes.

But Rome and its environs conceal many holy places beyond the ken of the Bible.

Notwithstanding academic quibbles about the accuracy of Khrushchev’s interpreter, the communist leader seems to have been prescient beyond his ken.