Some states impose specifications on how long recipients must participate in education or training, while others limit the types of degrees low-income students can pursue while receiving benefits.
Even if Zimbabweans have money in their bank accounts, strict limits have been imposed on how much they can withdraw, leading to long bank queues.
Currently, limits are imposed on how much money a licensed charity can raise through these lotteries.
The term-limits movement gained momentum in the late 1980s and early 1990s, as 23 states passed legislation trying to impose a limit on how long members of Congress could serve.
Such astonishing feats of endurance are less common these days, the US Senate seeking to head off filibusterers at the pass and many legislatures, including the US House of Representatives, and both houses of the Australian parliament, imposing strict rules on how long politicians can speak for.
Impose a limit on how long they can smoke in each room, or how many cigarettes they smoke.
The two rapporteurs behind the report -- Hugues Bayet (S&D, BE) and Evelyn Regner (S&D, AT) -- are set to proposes amendments imposing time limits on how long firms can claim such an exemption.
The next crisis, Townshend says, will be when the city imposes a new 12-hour limit on how long drivers can hustle.
Much will depend on how long Cyprus's new capital controls, the first imposed anywhere in the euro zone, will last and how big the deposit haircut will turn out to be.
