"impose a limit on" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe the act of setting a limit or boundary on some activity or concept. For example: "The government imposed a limit on the amount of emissions businesses are allowed to produce."
So, now policy advisers are privately mulling the tricky question of whether central government should impose a limit on the percentage of schools one academy chain is allowed to run in any locality.
Council officials said they were open to advice from the mayor during the hearing process, and noted that some provisions in the bill, like one that would impose a limit on public matching funds for candidates who run in uncontested races, would probably prove unpopular with some City Council members.
Paleoanthropologist Robert Martin of The Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois, agrees that the new paper does "provide the first evidence that metabolic limitations" from a raw food diet impose a limit on how big a primate's brain or body can grow.
But reality, we assumed, would sooner or later impose a limit on his mania.
Granted, the facts of a narrative do impose a limit on a writer's field of action.
Lutheran CORE, the conservative group that planned the meeting, had been forced to impose a limit on the numbers.
Both Mr. Rodriguez and Ms. Gonzalez have criticized Mr. Martinez for not participating in the city's campaign finance program, which imposes a limit on individual contributions but matches them with city dollars, four to one.
Banks were imposing a limit on withdrawals.
Since the federal government has imposed a limit on commercial fishing, the fishing has never been better".
These are powerful legal instruments, says Neuberger, but go nowhere near imposing a limit on parliamentary legal sovereignty.
This week Taiwan imposed a limit on foreign holdings of long-term government bonds to add to its long-standing limits on short-term investments.
