The phrase "an overall limit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a maximum restriction or boundary that applies to a situation or set of conditions.
Example: "The project has an overall limit of $10,000 for expenses, which must not be exceeded."
Alternatives: "a total cap" or "a maximum threshold".
Beginning with the Second Liberty Loan Act of 1917, the nature of the limitation was modified until, in 1941, it developed into an overall limit on the outstanding Federal debt.
Mrs. Clinton will not try to impose an overall limit on national health spending, the aides said.
*The federal government should set an overall limit on the out-of-pocket pharmaceutical expenses of Medicare beneficiaries.
Another would, for the first time, establish an overall limit on Medicare beneficiaries' out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs.
The treaty set an overall limit of about 2,400 of all such weapons systems for each side.
Under any sort of cap-and-trade scheme, government sets an overall limit on emissions while allowing companies to trade permits, known as allowances, to pollute.
Calculation of the expected value of perfect information according to standard practice 30 suggested that an upper overall limit of £5.3m should be spent on further research to give worthwhile benefit, with specific studies of vaporisation techniques and holmium laser enucleation having upper limits of £4.2m and £1.7m, respectively.
NIH Director Francis Collins told reporters that given the budget agreement reached by Republicans and Democrats in December, which imposes a strict overall limit on discretionary spending, "nobody would have expected … a big bump up for NIH".
The health law, signed more than three years ago by Mr. Obama, clearly established a single overall limit on out-of-pocket costs for each individual or family.
What puzzles him, he said, is why he is subject to a separate overall limit of $48,600 every two years for contributions to all federal candidates.
During the consultation, debt charities told the FCA they believed even the charges capped at 100% would still harm customers and urged the regulator to consider a lower overall limit, particularly on higher loans.
