The phrase "a motion to limit" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in legal or parliamentary contexts to refer to a formal proposal to restrict debate or discussion on a particular issue.
Example: "The committee put forward a motion to limit the time allocated for discussion on the budget proposal."
Alternatives: "a proposal to restrict" or "a request to curtail".
Therefore, a motion to limit liability under the statute would fail, she added.
Parliament recently rejected a motion to limit the television board's supervisory powers.
The government, seeking to protect its investigation, filed a motion to limit the testimony of Mr. Owens.
Lacking an agreement on how to proceed, the Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, Republican of Tennessee, filed a motion to limit debate and amendments on the welfare bill.
Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, introduced a motion to limit the life of the new law, but it was defeated on a party-line vote.
On May 4th, after a frosty stand-off, the PdL joined the League in pushing through the lower-house Chamber of Deputies a motion to limit Italy's involvement.
The motion to limit debate passed in the House on Thursday afternoon, with the NDP voting as slowly as humanly possible to stall the process.
"The proposed motion to limit the number of clubs per block on Bourbon will not ensure the safety of any of the industrious workers currently employed.
The new bill cleared a procedural hurdle on Wednesday as the Senate voted, 62 to 33, to limit debate on a motion to take it up.
The judge, W. Terry Ruckriegle of District Court, also denied a motion by prosecutors to limit the scope of the questioning.
A thorough literature search did not find any evidence to suggest that rigid sports tape applied along the line of pull of the quadriceps femoris and triceps surae muscles would affect motor performance during repeated submaximal single-leg hopping and was considered an appropriate sham intervention as it was not applied over a joint to limit joint motion.
