Sentence examples for a limiting clause from inspiring English sources

The Third Circuit’s contrary reading ignores the grammatical “rule of the last antecedent,” under which a limiting clause or phrase should be read to modify only the noun or phrase that it immediately follows.

The Third Circuit’s reading disregards—indeed, is precisely contrary to—the grammatical “rule of the last antecedent,” according to which a limiting clause or phrase (here, the relative clause “which exists in the national economy”) should ordinarily be read as modifying only the noun or phrase that it immediately follows (here, “any other kind of substantial gainful work”).

The bourgeois revolutionaries overthrew the ancien régime in the name of freedom and equality for all – and though these ideals were "packed with tacit or explicit clauses excluding women, the poor, slaves and many other groups from its ambit" (Callinicos, Equality), the universalism of these ideals had a tendency to breach these morally arbitrary, power-determined limiting clauses.

To get past the first limiting clauses of the Second Amendment to find an unalienable individual right to bear arms seems to require creative editing.

The NRA, of course, accomplished little during its unhappy tenure, and was struck down by the Supreme Court in 1935 (in the Court's last assertion of a limiting commerce clause, at least until this year's ruling on the Affordable Care Act).

The key point for Kennedy appears to be reflected in his question, "Can you identify for us some limits on the commerce clause?" Kennedy seems to be seeking reassurance that there is a "limiting principle", something in the government's position that will prevent its interpretation of the commerce clause from being an unlimited grant of federal power.

(He lost an effort to rescind a term-limits clause and wrote an acid farewell remembered within the union as "the Nixon letter").

It is expected that Museveni, 72, will ask MPs to remove an age-limit clause that would technically end his rule when he reached 75.

A partial ouster or time limit clause specifies a restricted period, after which no remedy will be available.

Unlike a total ouster or finality clause which seeks to preclude judicial review entirely, a partial ouster or time limit clause specifies a restricted period of time after which no remedy will be available.

A key provision was a clause limiting the working hours of biscuit, cake, and bread workers to 10 hours per day and 60 hours per week.