The phrase "acting to limit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone or something is taking action to impose restrictions or constraints.
Example: "The new policy is acting to limit the amount of waste produced by the company."
Alternatives: "taking steps to restrict" or "working to constrain".
China is also acting to limit coal consumption in an effort to tackle air pollution and climate change.
VIA Paul Krugman, have a look at this speech by Adam Posen, a stinging critique of the ECB's Bundesbank critics, who allege that the ECB has compromised itself by acting to limit the effects of the European crisis).
The humoral immune response is a complex network of antibodies that target different specificities and drive different functions, collectively acting to limit and clear infection either directly, via pathogen neutralization, or indirectly, via pathogen clearance by the innate immune system.
It is also a challenge to the notion of a liberating and open Internet, and China, in particular, has tried to build a wall around its citizens, not only via censorship and surveillance but by acting to limit the influence of foreign companies and organizations that might undermine Communist Party control.
In Indonesia, the third most populous country in Asia after China and India, the government is already acting to limit imports of garments, electronics, shoes, toys and food — five large categories in which Indonesian producers are struggling to compete with China.
Nineteen Democrats joined in approving a bill that, were it to become law, would bar the Environmental Protection Agency from acting to limit emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that the agency has declared a threat to human health and the environment.
"On the climate issue, we appear to be on the brink of having Republican science and Democrat science," said Dr. Pielke, who has long espoused acting to limits risks from warming.
Numerous kinetic, structural, and theoretical studies have established that DNA polymerases adjust their domain structures to enclose nucleotides in their active sites and then rearrange critical active site residues and substrates for catalysis, with the latter conformational change acting to kinetically limit the correct nucleotide incorporation rate.
The regulator is acting directly to limit shareholder efforts to oust entrenched bank directors intended to improve the operation of banks.
If so, in a nation of finite healthcare resources, society would be acting reasonably to limit additional medical expenses on his care, even if he wished otherwise.
Chitinases are often co-induced with antifungal β-glucanases (PR-2 proteins), acting synergistically to limit fungal growth via degrading chitin and glucan of fungal cell walls [ 61- 64].
