Sentence examples for as off limits from inspiring English sources

His Administration, arguing that programs like A.F.D.C. and Medicaid promoted dependency and immorality, made huge cuts in these programs (more than a million poor people lost food-stamp benefits) but called programs like Social Security and Medicare a "safety net," and treated them as off limits.

At the base, coils of barbed wire mark the compound as off limits to regular soldiers.

As a government, we are committed to doing everything we can to help women feel empowered so that no career is seen as off limits.

Born in New Orleans and trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Anderson saw no medium as off limits.

And in a sport in which fans like to touch their heroes' bats and helmets and jerseys, Bonds comes across as off limits.

The reforms will preserve the most important strength of the civil service, its impartiality, which has been described as Maude as "off limits".

In this case, getting close might mean something as off-limits as a visit with a detainee in Guantánamo Bay.

But they consider competition and investment as off-limits.

"If it's secured, it's marked as off-limits," she said.

Staggering cuts to programs once seen as off-limits — yes, yes and yes.

The Christmas holiday is often seen as off-limits for hard-hitting political messages.