The Patriot Act increases the government's power to spy in four areas. 1  1. Expanded access to personal records held by third parties. 2  2. More secret searches. 3  3. Expansion of the intelligence exception in wiretap law. 4  4. Expansion of the pen register exception in wiretap law.
Nimbus is a Latin word meaning cloud or rain storm. Nimbo is a prefix and nimbus is a suffix. An example would be: Nimbostratus, a precipitating cloud.
One thing that can be said with conviction is that the nimbus was borrowed from the Near East (most likely Mithraism) to be utilized in Roman imagery; the Christians did not use a nimbus in their art until after the emperors started to use it.