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Example sentences for "limiting"

Lexicographically close words:
limitation; limitations; limite; limited; limites; limitless; limitlessly; limits; limitted; limmer
  1. But as to doing without, or even limiting himself to an inferior quality and restricted quantity, that was a matter about which he was not at all indifferent.

  2. In dry-farming, where the limiting factor is water, this principle must he emphasized in every cultural operation.

  3. Since, under dry-farm conditions, water is the limiting factor of production, the primary problem of dry-farming is the most effective storage in the soil of the natural precipitation.

  4. It was only by partly limiting and protecting the woman that she was enabled to play at five or six professions and so come almost as near to God as the child when he plays at a hundred trades.

  5. This is, first and foremost, what I mean by the narrowness of the new ideas, the limiting effect of the future.

  6. No creed can be so limiting as that awful adjuration that the cobbler must not go beyond his last.

  7. Augustine retracts is one limiting the devil's power; the statement which he does not retract is one in which it is precisely Janus' complaint that he exaggerates it.

  8. We may add that the fact of trilocation being unheard of is, so far, an argument against the possibility of replication; for once admit that replication is possible, and there is no reason for limiting to duality of presence.

  9. It may very well be that the conditions limiting diabolical intercourse are more complex and imperious, where the spirit "quasi tranquillus agit, without harassing the body.

  10. Have put aboard the artillery and every article authorized in orders limiting baggage, except the men, and hold them in readiness, with their places assigned, to be moved at a moment's warning.

  11. The history of football has been a story of limiting the power of the offense.

  12. The history of the game since the granting of this new method of attack has again been chiefly a story of limiting the power and effectiveness of this new offense.

  13. The limiting factor is not the neighbor but water; and I wonder if this is, perhaps, one of the things which makes this country seem to enjoy a kind of peace one does not find elsewhere.

  14. The boll weevil was once a curse; then it came to be somewhat regarded as a disguised blessing--in limiting production.

  15. Republican leaders," said Senator Tillman, "do not longer dare to call into question the justice or necessity of limiting negro suffrage in the South.

  16. We placed our contracts along three rivers and over as many counties, limiting the number to ten thousand beeves of the same ages and paying one dollar a head above the previous spring.

  17. Limiting the corn fed to three barrels to the animal a month, with plenty of rough feed, ought to bring them through the winter in good, healthy form.

  18. By rigidly limiting the heights of buildings to the standards so successful in Europe, and then in some way preserving belts of houses alongside the business district as it begins to stretch, congestion may at least be checked.

  19. Hence the true account of abstract terms seems to me to be that we have in them another limiting case, a case in which the extension and the intension are coincident.

  20. Hence it ought to be said, not that the proper name has no intension, but that it represents a limiting case in which intension is at a minimum.

  21. The insight that we have won from the limiting notion of force helps us rather to avoid the misuse which has been made of the concept of force.

  22. Our study of these unknown forces will progress rapidly if, in place of limiting the results obtained to one or two groups, such as those which precede, we examine the totality of the observations made in the seances of this medium.

  23. Exactly how far the inheritance tax would, as an incident, have the effect of limiting the transmission by devise or gift of the enormous fortunes in question it is not necessary at present to discuss.

  24. I call your attention to the need of passing the bill limiting the number of hours of employment of railroad employees.

  25. The only plan that seemed at all feasible, that of limiting the size of battleships, met with no favor at all.

  26. Only about so much can in practice be added to the price of any given commodity for freight without widely limiting the area of its available market.

  27. The Senate took a less radical stand in limiting the prohibition of railroad ownership to vessels making use of the Panama Canal.

  28. The one thing dreaded above all others on a warship is cerebro-spinal meningitis, both on account of its unavoidably high rate of mortality and the difficulty of preventing its spread under the limiting conditions.

  29. One student described it as the limiting value of the ratio of the increment of the dependent variable x to the increment of the independent variable t, when the latter increment is made indefinitely small.

  30. This can be obtained by considering the disk as a limiting case of an oblate ellipsoid of revolution, charged to potential V, say.

  31. It will be noted that the federal surveillance was to extend only to the High Alps above a certain limiting line.

  32. Sexual excess defeats its own purpose, because it engenders a lack of desire and consequently it is to a certain extent a self-limiting process.

  33. Displacement of the womb by limiting its tendency to grow when pregnant, may cause it to miscarry.

  34. For whoever says regulation says limitation: now, how conceive of limiting privilege before it existed?

  35. Soon, not content with limiting the power of the Eternal, man, increasingly deicidal in his tendencies, insists on sharing it.

  36. And, in the two limiting clauses, the same pronoun was requisite, on account of their joint relation; but the clause which assumes a different relation, is rightly introduced by a different pronoun.

  37. This, certainly, was both a dividing of the unity of God, and a limiting of his immensity.

  38. This, certainly, was both dividing the unity of God, and limiting his immensity.

  39. Count Romanones loyally and effectively supported the Ministers in limiting the debates on political and diplomatic questions to a few sittings each week, so as to devote the rest of the time to the Finance Bill.

  40. Under these circumstances The Times (July 29) urged British parties to "close ranks" and suspend their strife, that the Government might devote all its energies to limiting the area of the war.

  41. It is possible to extend the limits considerably by using a light valve on a strong spring, but the valve still remains a limiting factor in the speed of the motor.

  42. One of these consists of a needle valve to regulate the amount of gasoline, the other is a knurled screw which controls the amount of air by limiting the lift of the jump valve.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "limiting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bordering; borderline; boundary; caudal; coastal; conclusive; defining; definitive; determinant; determinative; enclosing; exclusive; extenuating; extreme; farthest; final; frontier; last; lenitive; limiting; littoral; marginal; mitigating; modifying; narrowing; obstruction; palliative; polar; qualifying; restrictive; softening; strait; surrounding; tail; terminal; ultimate