Sentence examples for by law limits from inspiring English sources

New York City became a "sanctuary city" — one that, by law, limits coöperation with federal immigration officials — in 2011.

Criticism continued after the construction, and a few years later the city council passed a by-law limiting building heights in the old town to 65 feet — a size only exceeded by one other building at the time: the then seven-floor Hôtel-Dieu de Québec.

The full magnitude of these public costs and how to stem them remains crudely understood, in part because federal agencies are handcuffed by laws limiting their research on the subject -- the result of lobbying by opponents of gun control laws.

Therefore they contain output and other sequential parts that by Amdahl's law limits the theoretical speedup of the total simulation time.

Q: Are you also bound by the law limiting NIH to 27 institutes and centers?

The next three presidential election nights set a precedent that was later revoked by a law limiting presidents to two terms.

Passed by voters in 1994, the law limits state and local elected officials to eight years in office.

There are also, by law, explicit limits on the authority he has over American troops, as there are for all 107 foreign officers and noncommissioned officers from 13 countries serving in the Army today.

Until now, military development in space has been hampered by a 1969 law limiting space exploration to "peaceful uses".

But Mr. Wilson's days are numbered by the California law limiting elected officials to two terms, which voters passed when they elected him eight years ago.

Mr. Calderón — who by law is limited to one six-year term — says he has saved Mexico from becoming a failed narco-state.