I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a credit limit (= the most someone can spend using credit )
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I have a Visa card with a £1,000 credit limit.
a limited circle
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His writing was popular with a limited circle of enthusiasts.
a limited company (= one whose owners only have to pay a limited amount if it gets into debt )
a limited number (= quite small )
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A limited number of copies were printed.
a limited period (= a fairly short length of time )
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From May, the site will be open to the public for a limited period.
a limited time (= a short period of time )
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The offer is available for a limited time only.
a limited understanding
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We have only a limited understanding of how the brain processes this information.
a limited/special edition (= a small number of special copies produced at one time only )
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They have produced a new limited edition CD.
a narrow/limited range
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They only had a very limited range of products available.
a small/limited selection
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We also have a small selection of offices for daily hire.
a small/limited supply
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There is a limited supply of land for building.
a small/low/limited budget
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It was a project with a low budget.
a speed limit
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The speed limit is 40 mph here.
age limit
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The upper age limit for entrants was set at 25.
an age limit
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There’s no upper age limit for drivers.
be limited/restricted in scope
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The law is quite limited in scope.
control/limit emissions
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The measures to control carbon dioxide emissions do not go far enough.
exceed/break the speed limit
in large/increasing/limited etc numbers
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Birds nest here in large numbers.
legal limit
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He had twice the legal limit of alcohol in his bloodstream.
limit your options (= limit what you can choose to do )
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If you don’t go to college, it may limit your options.
limited capacity
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The hospitals have a limited capacity.
limited company
limited edition
limited liability (= when someone is responsible for damages or debts for a limited amount of money )
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Limited liability encourages managers to take more risks with shareholder funds than they would otherwise.
limited liability
limited success (= not very much success )
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The attempt to replace coca with other crops has had only limited success.
limited
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The king's power was limited.
limited/little opportunity (= not many chances )
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They had little opportunity to discuss the issue beforehand.
limited/narrow
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The scope of the research was quite limited.
limited/scarce resources
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We have very limited resources.
limited/small
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He had just started learning English and his vocabulary was fairly limited.
limit/restrict to a maximum
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The amount you will have to pay is limited to 10% of the total.
narrow/limit the scope of sth
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He had severely limited the scope of his autobiography.
off limits
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Footpaths are, of course, off limits to bikers.
on a wide/broad/limited front
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Schemes of this kind enjoyed success only on a limited front.
predetermined level/limit/amount etc
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a predetermined level of spending
private limited company
public limited company
push...to the limit
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athletes who push their bodies to the limit
set limits
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Set strict limits on your spending.
severely limited
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Time for discussion is severely limited.
speed limit
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a 30 mph speed limit
strained to the limit
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I felt that my patience was being strained to the limit .
strict limits
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Many airlines impose strict limits on the weight of baggage.
term limit
the city limits American English (= the furthest parts of the city )
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rural areas south of the city limits
time limit
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The time limit for applications is three weeks.
to a limited extent (= not a very large amount )
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In the USA, and to a limited extent in Britain, the housing market is in recession.
upper age limit
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The upper age limit for entrants was set at 25.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
certain
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It also has narrow channels; through which only molecules having dimensions within certain limits can pass.
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The scope and function of mind has certain limits , because of something inherent in the very fabric of mind.
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Even so, he stayed in the room, glowering and suspicious, making sure that the examination was kept within certain limits .
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It may either stop here, or establish certain limits not to be transcended by those departments.
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Up to certain limits , this income is free of personal taxation.
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You can use this function to check that a calculated answer is within certain limits of a specified value.
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Some would have been content with the type of solution Hofmann offered: a check that worked within certain limits .
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All the critics mentioned so far kept their criticism within certain limits .
legal
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There was no apparent reason to administer the drug, although the quantities involved were not above the legal limits .
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The legal limit is. 08 and his blood alcohol was. 09.
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Yes. but you will probably only notice at past the legal maximum speed limit .
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Fines for speeding range from $ 57. 60 to $ 360, depending on how much drivers exceed the legal limits .
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Company officials insist that emissions from the combustion of the tyres will not remain within legal limits .
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There are no legal limits to those contributions, although they are supposed to be used only for generic party-building activities.
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Male speaker Most of the tyres we change are worn to the legal limit .
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There are a few that are changed before that and there are those that go beyond the legal limit .
low
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In large transactions vendors may also negotiate a lower limit for individual items.
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Deduct the lower earnings limit , and divide the resulting figure by 80.
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This expression is an inequality, giving upper and lower limits on relationships between the measured variables.
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The lower limits of sensitivity for glucagon and atrial natriuretic peptide assay were 3.7 pmol/l and 1.1 pmol/l, respectively.
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But it would give them much-needed practice in monitoring lower limits in future.
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The lower earnings limit is the same level as the basic retirement pension.
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The present experimental lower limit on the lifetime is about 10 30 years, and it should be possible to improve this.
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The lower detection limit for bile acids was 0.3 pmol.
strict
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Enforceability Though the agencies do not regard standards as strict limits , their enforceability is important.
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The Maastricht rules also impose strict limits on public debt.
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There is a strict limit of 50 anglers.
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If your child crosses that line, you need to place strict limits on his behavior.
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On discovering the fretting, he informed the chief civil engineer who imposed a strict speed limit on the bridge.
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Invoking strict limits on online news, including requiring Web sites to get their news from state media.
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But Brian Hickey, Harlequin's president, says the agreement with Alliance puts strict limits on production costs.
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Impose strict limits on dissemination of passenger travel data and the use of overly intrusive searches.
upper
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There is, however, no upper earnings limit for your share.
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The upper limit for prospective members of the future monetary union is 3 percent.
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There's no upper limit - so put your ideas into action - pick up a leaflet today.
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As cognitive development reaches an upper limit with full attainment of formal operations, so too does affective development.
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A good rule of thumb is to think of 30k as around the upper limit for a page.
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There must be at least one entry, but there is no upper limit to the number of entries.
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Earnings between £43 and £325 a week - the upper earnings limit - will now attract the uniform 9 percent.
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There is no upper limit on the number of cattle attracting HLCAs but sheep are limited to 6 per hectare.
■ NOUN
age
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At the moment we have under-17s, under-19s and then no age limit .
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And so can the age limits .
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Val was thirty-eight, and was glad that there was no age limit on the entry for the course.
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The previous age limits had stood at 35 for men and 30 for women.
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So let's bring in an under-21 age limit and not discard our youngsters too early.
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Job-seekers over those age limits suddenly found they had no hope of getting a civil service job.
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Garden Design: Anyone: there are no age limits or entry requirements.
cash
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The discipline of cash limits was repeatedly disregarded, with political factors often intervening to soften the government's monetarist convictions.
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In general these cash limits were tighter than the losses industries had previously been making.
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In other words, cash limits were not expected to be adjusted during the subsequent year to take account of inflation.
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Central government generally has cash limits imposed on clearly defined blocks of expenditure.
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A cash limit is also applied to nationalized industries to restrict their ability to borrow from sources other than the government.
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We will reform the Social Fund, removing its cash limit and converting most loans into grants.
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From 1982 the two separate sets of targets used by the Labour government - volume and cash limit - were abolished.
city
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The would-be acquirer is said to live within the city limits of Santa Clara, California.
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Illiteracy does not restrict itself to city limits or the borders of school districts.
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Eventually a group of Arab youths becomes visible, running down the hill towards the giant Marlboro ad by the city limits .
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Since then, 1, 434 other people have been been killed in the city limits .
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People who reside inside the city limits make up 60 percent of the population of the community.
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I stumbled out of town with barely enough strength to reach the city limits .
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The city limits encompassed 91 square miles, and the water bill for the average household was $ 8.
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Tucson residents financially support libraries outside the city limits as well as those inside them.
credit
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What each customer's credit limit is, if he has exceeded it, and by how much; 4.
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Or she would spend her long futile housewife days overspending her credit limit at Lord &038; Taylor.
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Are you at, or near, your credit limit ?
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The long-stop defence against overspending on a credit card is the credit limit set on its use.
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Decide on a credit limit and a date for its review.
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Shop on the Sabbath-but remember thy credit limit , and keep it holy. 14.
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He got a credit limit of £6,500.
speed
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On discovering the fretting, he informed the chief civil engineer who imposed a strict speed limit on the bridge.
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When Congress acted, highway safety advocates predicted the higher speed limits would lead inevitably to more fatalities.
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It also calls for a rigid speed limit to be imposed on motorists and for short-term parking bays to be made available.
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Theoretical speed limits for a single processor are being approached.
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Yes. but you will probably only notice at past the legal maximum speed limit .
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A., Benjamin is driving twice the speed limit when he runs a stop sign.
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There was no speed limit on the autobahn and even at 135 m.p.h. the Jaguar seemed to be only cruising.
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Montana will have no speed limit during daylight hours.
term
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Since then, however, court challenges have given new hope to adherents that term limits will survive.
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Ferry said more than 70 percent of voters support term limits .
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A new term limit measure could give legislators longer tenures.
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In a government with term limits for elected officials, the power of the staffs that stay on will only expand.
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Furthermore, we believe the people have the right to decide whether they want term limits or not.
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The big gavel of term limits has come down hard.
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An amendment imposing term limits was defeated in the House and never made it to the Senate.
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Previous efforts to mandate term limits and balanced budgets and to outlaw flag-burning failed in Congress.
time
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Most statutory rights have to be enforced within a strict time limit .
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The demo has a five-minute time limit but gives you a precise feel for the game.
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One possible solution is for the last step in the procedure to be the subject of a strict time limit .
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Because of an arcane law on the books, a time limit is in place for advance wagers.
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There is no time limit for pre-baiting.
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There are major differences on time limits , work requirements, exemptions, and general assistance payments.
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Rorion was outraged; time limits changed the psychology of the contest.
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At least seventeen states have been permitted to impose such time limits .
■ VERB
define
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Nothing could define more clearly the limits of what Anselm regarded as his personal responsibility than this agreement.
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Each was an attempt to define the respective limits of integration and loyalty.
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Firstly there are what are usually termed onomatopoeic phonetic sequences: with these it is often difficult to define their exact limits .
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This defence of individualism is then taken to define the limits of holism as a viable form of explanation.
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These exaggerations are offered to define the limits rather than to present accurate profiles, but they do highlight an educational dilemma.
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The forward and backwards pruning points define the limits of left and right context for a system.
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Criminal libel is unlikely to occur other than rarely, but is available to define the limits of acceptable behaviour.
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Indeed it is extremely difficult to establish any truly satisfactory system of defining the limits of these functions.
exceed
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Cadmium, a deadly poison, exceeded the safe limit by seven times; arsenic by 20 times.
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Fines for speeding range from $ 57. 60 to $ 360, depending on how much drivers exceed the legal limits .
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Any bar or disco which exceeds its permitted decibel limit can be shut down on the spot for the night by police.
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The local police frequently arrested students for exceeding the speed limit or other minor infractions of the law.
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Application must be made to the legal aid area office for authority to exceed this limit .
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They said he had far exceeded his limits in acquiring mortgages that were packaged into a particularly risky form of securities.
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Owners will be required to have their cars repaired within 15 days if they are found to exceed limits .
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If those damages exceeded the policy limits , the motorist could sue the other party for the excess.
impose
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The Z88's operating system imposes a limit on the number of files you can have open at any one time.
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The Maastricht rules also impose strict limits on public debt.
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It is worth mentioning the techniques by which a minority of respondents sought to impose limits from below.
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Dole also supported an amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress, despite his own 35 years in that body.
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The purchaser should also impose a financial limit on the value of the creditors that it assumes.
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Senate bill would impose no limits , but Sen.
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You should note that the penal codes of some nations impose time limits for the reporting of crime.
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At least seventeen states have been permitted to impose such time limits .
increase
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There are, in our society, increasing limits on the concentration of power.
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As you increase the limit setting, you need to increase your empathy.
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Should the bank be unwilling to increase your limit , it may allow you to borrow at a reasonable rate of interest.
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We do not need to increase the limits for at least another 18 months.
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They are demanding that Clinton accept much of their proposal before they will increase the debt ceiling limit .
place
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This places an upper limit on our lifespan.
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If your child crosses that line, you need to place strict limits on his behavior.
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An investor can wait for a transaction to match their order by placing it within the limit order system.
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Critics charge the bills would cut legal immigration by 20 to 40 percent by placing new limits on all categories of entrants.
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Of course applicants may continue to have advice and representation of their choice; we place no limit on either.
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Since then, more funds have begun using the word duration in their names, and placing duration limits in prospectuses.
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The mutation rate is bound to place an upper limit on the rate at which evolution can proceed.
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You may want to place a limit on how much one partner can handle without consulting the other.
push
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Vintage Steve Douglas pushing the limits of the fake ollie at the Whiplash comp. 1985.
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Naturally, the realities of combat pushed us beyond these limits nearly every day.
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If anything, START-2 could have gone further, pushing the limits below 2, 000.
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I feel that I have pushed the limits of his patience.
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Acorn, Hawkbit and Speedwell, decent enough rank-and-filers as long as they were not pushed beyond their limits .
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There are full-time writers who can't push things to their limits -- poets who stop when a thing is good enough.
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Some one somewhere is going to push them to the limit .
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If a mentor is pushing you beyond your limits , if you are feeling more and more exhausted, beware!
raise
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But Transport 2000 believes the policy is illegal-claiming it effectively raises the speed limit .
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Yet right now it is possible to raise the debt limit with a simple majority vote in both houses.
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The bank has simultaneously raised the cheque guarantee limit to £250 for its Premier Visa cardholders..
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Among other things, this raises the income limits for deducting contributions by a taxpayer with a pension plan.
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Under their pressure Congress raised the limit to 115,000, and is debating a proposal to issue 200,000 H1B visas next year.
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The bill proposes raising the ownership limit from the current 12 stations covering no more than 25 percent of the country.
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Last month, under pressure from the fishermen, the government raised the lobster limit from 50 to 80 tonnes.
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Lund said the study does not take into account states that raised their speed limits after April 1996.
reach
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I reckon also I've reached the limit .
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Evidently he has reached the limit of his imagination, for at this point he reverts from words to breathing.
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Mercury will then let customers know when they have reached that limit , so that users can choose whether or not to make further calls.
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I stumbled out of town with barely enough strength to reach the city limits .
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It would create unfair trading as some buyers may already have reached their 90-claim limit .
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Valerie and Mike were both reaching the limits of fear and frustration.
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The Government are not prepared to set out any timetable for reaching that limit .
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As cognitive development reaches an upper limit with full attainment of formal operations, so too does affective development.
set
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So, too, does some guess about where the government may set a capping limit .
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The optional BillLimit feature enables customers to budget by setting a monthly limit .
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Other groups set the limit at 2 1 / 4 inches.
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The system manager should be able to set limits on disk space allocation and printer usage for each user of the system.
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Finally, we encourage all clients to set a limit on the total number of drinks per week.
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Genes set the limits even to genius.
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Chafee also proposed a five-year delay in setting specific limits for fine particulates, or soot, citing scientific uncertainty.
spend
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Voter-approved spending limits take hold in 1999.
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Candidates for mayor and the Board of Supervisors now face campaign spending limits .
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No spending limit Unlike races for local elective office, no campaign spending limit law applies to ballot measures.
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That could lead to a third partial government shutdown, if a compromise on spending limits can not be reached.
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She said spending limits would help even the odds.
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Any attempt to evade campaign spending limits , they add, already is governed by local and state legislation.
stretch
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Similar incidents occurred all over the Old City and the manpower Owen could command was stretched to its limit .
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When they act in concert, the individual soon begins to feel stretched to the limit .
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Banks have frozen loans and many small businesses are stretched to the limit .
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Employees, when surveyed, had repeatedly reported being stretched to the limit .
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However, these constraints need to be tested and stretched to their limits .
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Resources are stretched to the limit and, unless some one helps, the country will be awash with tears on Christmas morning.
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Olympic ideals were stretched to the limit .
test
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I have always been interested in testing the limits and assumptions of structural rules or engineering codes.
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The project is challenging enough to test your limits .
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Lucien knew that Jeopardy had worked him hard, tested his limits .
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They test the limits of their own abilities and talents, physical and mental.
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Modern life often tests the limits of human adaptation.
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Would I be testing the limits of their tolerance for the rest of my feminist work?
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He had almost given up testing the limits .
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Burton was hurling himself on the course most likely to tempt and test him to the limit .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Limited
be off limits
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Much of the palace is off limits to the public.
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The officer told the soldiers that the town was off limits.
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Consequently there is no topic that is off limits for discussion, even if a few are off limits for experimentation.
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However; it was off limits for Robbie to hit or scratch his sister.
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Income from interest, dividends or profits from stock sales would be off limits.
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Unlike most group discussions, nothing was off limits.
be stretched (to the limit)
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A woman was stretched lazily along it.
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But now with several hundred thousand more people, municipal services are stretched beyond belief.
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Cantor was stretched out on his bed, content and tired, the telephone cradled at his neck.
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Curtains of closely woven cotton lace were stretched across the windows, fastened so tightly they kept out both air and sun.
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I was stretched full-length upon the bodies, my battered hand resting on the rim of the tub.
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In the first phrase, for example, the normal eight bars are stretched to nine.
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In the process, however, nerves and resources were stretched almost to the breaking point.
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Olympic ideals were stretched to the limit.
overstep the limits/bounds/boundaries
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A military commander may overstep the bounds of constitutionality, and it is an incident.
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But there was a period in his life at which his suspicion and hostility to others overstepped the bounds of sanity.
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Does Dickens, for example, overstep the limits of grammar in beginning Bleak House with a series of sentences without main verbs?
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Individuals are required to perform their job to the full, but not to overstep the boundaries of their authority.
the sky's the limit
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Pick out whatever you want - the sky's the limit.
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We try to make our engineers feel that the sky's the limit when it comes to what they can design.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He borrowed money up to the limit that the bank allowed.
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Pollution levels in the water were found to be over the official limit .
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Some families set limits on how much they spend on each other's Christmas present.
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The Interstate speed limit is 65 m.p.h.
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The speed limit is 65 mph.
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There's no limit on the amount of money that may be brought into the US.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Are you at, or near, your credit limit ?
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As cognitive development reaches an upper limit with full attainment of formal operations, so too does affective development.
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Cheltenham Borough Council wants to save the money to meet government spending limits.
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He is prevented from owning more because of both foreign ownership and cross-media ownership limits.
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I feel that I have pushed the limits of his patience.
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The following cases examine the scope and limits of school authority to regulate different types of student publications.
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Their job is to make sure that no-one flies beyond their own limits and those of the aircraft.
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Unfortunately, this request didn't come within the trust beneficiary limits.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
severely
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Its toxicity has severely limited its use as an antiulcer drug but either it or its analogues are occasionally used clinically.
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In some states, claims for pain and suffering were outlawed entirely or severely limited .
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The impact of the book, however, was severely limited by its size.
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But this entrepreneur moved to a small country town where the workforce was severely limited .
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Time for discussion is severely limited .
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This was inconvenient, to say the least, and severely limited the amount of work that could be done.
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This method therefore had to be cancelled as the time the carrier could remain at Greenock was severely limited .
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The inflexible central scheduling of over-the-air broadcast transmissions severely limited the usefulness of educational television programs in individual classrooms.
■ NOUN
ability
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Capacity and other resource constraints which may limit the target's ability to respond to increases in demand.
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Rule-based computers are limited in their ability to accommodate inaccuracies or fuzzy information.
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This may limit the ability of these hospitals to meet their pledges of maximum inpatient waiting times of two years.
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Some programs also offer users a limited ability to decide for themselves which sites to block.
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Conceptual factors are those which limit our ability to draw conclusions from experiments, even if they are technically perfect.
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Also, there are only two zoom levels, which limit your ability to view a particular area.
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But others want to limit Washington's ability to buy its way out of its domestic obligations.
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It also limits the ability of agency heads to compete successfully for high-skilled senior talent.
access
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This would at once limit access to the city by private vehicles and improve access for buses and coaches.
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It offered low-cost housing and was free of the deed restrictions that limited black access to other areas of Los Angeles.
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The password which will be used to limit access to the packages created.
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He limited access to two reporters, who must sit in the rear of the courtroom.
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The Cinema has limited wheelchair access , and people with disabilities should contact the House Manager in advance.
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Restrictions on the interaction of children with peers and care-takers necessarily limit the language access .
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His openness is counter-cultural in these times of limited access , control-freak staffers, and ubiquitous security details.
amount
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It is these very services which can disable people, limiting the amount of real choice they have in their lives.
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He might also try to strictly limit the amount of time he spends there by scheduling other activities around his drinking.
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Those attending will look to you, the chairman, to limit or control the amount of time spent on various topics.
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San Antonio agencies limit the amount of food dispensed and the number of people they serve, according to the survey.
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The growth of a young plant is limited by the small amount of leaf area available to intercept light energy.
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S., meaning phone makers will have to compete for a more limited amount of new business.
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This constraint would effectively limit the amount of vehicles that a firm could service. 2.
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This was inconvenient, to say the least, and severely limited the amount of work that could be done.
choice
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Most stakeholder pensions will only offer investors a limited choice of mainstream funds, such as index trackers.
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As much as her personal past contributed to limiting her adult choices , so did her social past-and present.
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Even limiting the choice to alternative financial assets still opens up many opportunities.
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Up until recently, the cycle of a far more limited choice was measured in seasons and years.
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How will the new addition limit the choice of further additions planned for later?
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We have to limit his choices , keep him running east and west, laterally.
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Attendance at a special school may automatically limit the choices subsequently offered to individuals when expectations are low and stereotyped.
damage
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Effective cell-mediated immunity is central to limiting viral damage .
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Gingrich and the group were discussing how to limit the political damage Gingrich would face for admitting to having broken House rules.
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All of them at least as concerned to limit the damage as to assist the inquiry.
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Rex raised the alarm, and the entire crew rushed forward in the rain and darkness to try to limit the damage .
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Efforts must be made to limit damage when things go wrong in the classroom.
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Although bank officials are seeking to limit the damage , the news will add to pressure for further cuts in borrowing costs.
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The object of their game was to limit the damage .
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After his return in 1471 Edward tried to limit the damage to the Stanleys by modifying Gloucester's grant.
growth
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One of the problems is that once the commercial sector has been legitimated, it is difficult to limit its growth .
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But for most policymakers enough such suggestive studies have been conducted to justify measures to limit population growth .
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Some in the local business community accused this group of favoring limited growth , or even no growth.
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However, no similar effort has been made to limit the growth of tax welfare.
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Low temperatures are not dangerous, but they limit the growth .
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Many factors, of which light is only one, limit plant growth to maturity and reproduction.
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But it did limit airline growth .
law
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González is seeking to introduce laws limiting the right to strike in key public sectors.
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He lobbied the legislature at Albany to pass a law limiting electric currents to eight hundred volts.
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Her only transgressions against the law were limited to speeding and parking offences.
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Background: Arizona law limited train lengths to fourteen passenger cars or seventy freight cars in the asserted interests of safety.
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And, more evidently, formal equality before the law is limited .
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Federal law limits presidential candidates who accept matching contributions to spending $ 37 million in the primary season.
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New Hampshire passed a law limiting spending for congressional races.
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The law also limits how much a law firm can contribute.
liability
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Hence a director of a company may stand to lose financially even though the company has limited liability .
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Countries around the world limit the liability of investors and signal this special favor with certain abbreviations and designations.
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They unanimously held that on its wording it limited the sellers' liability to the cost of replacing the seed.
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The most important legal aspect of the corporation is its limited liability .
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But if kind is interpreted more narrowly, then it will have the effect of limiting the defendant's liability .
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The limited liability and perpetual life characteristics of the corporation make this form of organization almost mandatory for large firms.
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The remaining type of clause is that which limits liability by reference to an overall monetary figure.
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Wilson has signed into law a bill limiting liability suits filed by injured skateboarders.
number
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Like others, Alexander wants to cut congressional pensions and limit the number of terms that lawmakers can serve.
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The effort has been constrained by the limited number and type of male contraceptives.
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It is conceivable that quotas may come into future use to encourage or limit the numbers of certain types of applicant.
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Medical groups often woo primary care doctors while sharply limiting the number o f specialists allowed on their referral lists.
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This tendency has to be limited by a number of mechanisms which the course has evolved.
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Stoppages in the early 1960s were numerous but tended to be limited in the numbers of workers involved and in duration.
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Friday, January 5, 1996 Closedend funds sell a limited number of shares and invest the proceeds in securities.
power
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Printed exhortations can convey the same dehumanizing views; but print is limited in its manipulating power by the factor of delay.
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A drawback here is that such processes are limited in terms of the power of the grammars they permit.
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The Hodges doctrine, with its limited interpretation of federal power , seemed well on the way to extinction.
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This is part of a general social trend to increase customer choice and to limit the power of professionals.
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Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment do not limit state power to legislate on economic matters. 29.
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Other bodies created by the Rome treaty had limited powers .
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It takes the male dominance in our culture and uses that to limit the power of the symbol.
range
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The height of the casing limits the L range to three horizontal full-length 16-bit slots, the same as its predecessor.
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So far, the market for electric cars is drastically limited by the cars' high cost and limited range .
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In order to facilitate visual connections we have limited the range of topics or genres in each chapter.
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Such local rovers, which need only limited range , could be powered by batteries.
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We limit the range of contexts to the most obvious ones.
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The Impact has been praised by road testers for its quick acceleration and responsive handling despite its limited range .
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Jon had discovered that the plants are limited in their range by largely specific environmental conditions.
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In such cases an agreement to limit the range or to reword the criteria may be essential.
scope
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How can I draw boundaries round, or limit the scope of my chosen field?
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He much preferred to limit the scope of his inquiry to the field of geometrics.
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Altitude, aspect, and slope may further limit the scope .
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In the civil case, the plaintiffs sought to shield him from such harsh treatment by limiting the scope of his testimony.
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The neo-Confucians, by contrast, limited the scope of human destructive power to humanity itself.
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But the bill sets out a tight framework which will limit the judges' scope for blocking extra advocacy rights for solicitors.
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It's supposed to be limited in scope .
size
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It will not be as limited by the size and shape of the magazine as the advertorial.
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In this respect, they will be similar to Worthington Industries, which limits the size of its plants to 250 employees.
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Such a design also strictly limits the size of ganglia and brains.
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However we do not want to limit the size of the calculations that our device will perform in principle.
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The impact of the book, however, was severely limited by its size .
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It has a lot to do with not making a necessity of limiting family size .
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Women there have abortions again and again because it is the only way they can limit their family size .
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Rhyolite, with its limited size and 22, 300-mile distance above the test range, was slim competition.
space
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Judging from the distribution of clinical cases, yellow-fever transmission was limited in space and time.
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At home, she hired a firm to get more out of her limited closet space .
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Urban properties seldom come with an endowment, and opportunities for income-generation are generally limited by restrictions of space .
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In retrofitting, design options are limited by the space availability, foundation capabilities, detailed boiler design, etc.
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Where the implementation of such strategic highs is in question the centre will limit the action space around interpretability and local discretion.
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Because of the limited storage space , sound and video clips are sacrificed.
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Tokyo residents have to commute huge distances because building restrictions limit the living space available in the capital.
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Many more had been turned away because of the limited space .
speed
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Ultimate top speed will be limited by the lack of fairing.
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Even 50 different speed limits , bank holidays, fireworks laws are defensible.
term
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Prison terms were limited to a maximum of 15 years.
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Last year the court voted 5-4 to strike down state-imposed term limits for federal elective office holders.
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Millbrae voters also, by more than a 2-1 margin, approved term limits for council members.
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The court ruling did not affect term limits for state offices.
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The vote marked the third time since 1947 that the Senate has voted against term limits for members of Congress.
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The 1996 legislative races turned out to be particularly important because of newly opened seats due to term limits .
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The best case against congressional term limits is going on right under our noses this very minute.
use
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Funds obtained by this method are not limited in their use to balance of payments difficulties.
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But it is helium's awkwardness -- and expense -- in other applications that has limited the metallics' use .
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This, coupled with the fact that the 3M machine offers fewer colours in any case, would limit its use .
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Oh yeah, one more thing: Since a fairly recent accident, Linkous has limited use of his legs.
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A restrictive clause in the title deed limited the land use to mission purposes.
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Nevertheless, in reality there are difficulties with this method that limit its use .
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It also refused to limit the use of county vehicles for personal use in the charter.
■ VERB
seek
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Although bank officials are seeking to limit the damage, the news will add to pressure for further cuts in borrowing costs.
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The cap seeks to limit the damages imposed to punish a defendant found to have acted with malice.
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González is seeking to introduce laws limiting the right to strike in key public sectors.
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Republicans also have long sought to limit damages in malpractice suits.
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Newco should be conscious that the vendor's solicitors may seek to limit their exposure by diluting the certificate.
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Road safety policies should not seek to limit mobility.
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The exemption clauses in particular, by which the insurer seeks to limit his liability to the haulier, can be very extensive.
try
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All such notices are illegal because they try to limit a customer's right to return defective goods.
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He might also try to strictly limit the amount of time he spends there by scheduling other activities around his drinking.
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After his return in 1471 Edward tried to limit the damage to the Stanleys by modifying Gloucester's grant.
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One might as well try and set limits to the sun and wind, or to the mythosphere itself.
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If you absolutely must have sugar on cereal try to limit yourself to about one teaspoonful.
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Most legislators work long hours juggling lawmaking duties and outside careers, so Wren tries to limit business to business hours.
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Rex raised the alarm, and the entire crew rushed forward in the rain and darkness to try to limit the damage.
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I suggested that they try not to limit too many behaviors at the same time.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Limited
be off limits
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Much of the palace is off limits to the public.
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The officer told the soldiers that the town was off limits.
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Consequently there is no topic that is off limits for discussion, even if a few are off limits for experimentation.
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However; it was off limits for Robbie to hit or scratch his sister.
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Income from interest, dividends or profits from stock sales would be off limits.
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Unlike most group discussions, nothing was off limits.
the sky's the limit
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Pick out whatever you want - the sky's the limit.
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We try to make our engineers feel that the sky's the limit when it comes to what they can design.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As you look for material to write about, don't limit yourself to other people's ideas.
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Let's limit our discussion to the facts in the report.
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Men hold most of the top jobs, and this limits women's opportunities for promotion.
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The higher toll should limit the number of cars on the bridge.
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The new law limits the number of foreign cars that can be imported.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As long as the problems being addressed were limited, the degree of acceptable organizational change was limited.
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However, it was limited to one particular unit.
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It was limited to five hundred copies and afterwards the type was destroyed.
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The agreement in Washington has muffled the many disagreements encountered along this road by limiting the West's aims.
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Think space appeal here, and limit your opener to two to five lines.