Sentence examples for limit and limitation from inspiring English sources

Although both limit and limitation mean "boundary" and by extension "point beyond which nothing is allowed or possible," limitation has a special sense of "lack of capacity; restrictive condition; handicap".

Section 1330(a) imposes a 180-day time limit for a party to seek revocation of a confirmation order "procured by fraud". Courts of Appeals disagree as to whether a Rule 60(b)(4) motion should be treated as a "complaint to revoke" a plan subject to §1330's time limit and substantive limitation to motions based on fraud.

A race is a risk, a testing of limits and limitations.

So there's the pattern: first limits and limitations; then transcendence; then pushing at limits yet again.

The research aim is to determine the validity limits and limitations on the application scope of the finite element method in the masters and PhD students research.

The discussion of the possible limits and limitations of free speech recurs on an almost constant basis across social media, and perhaps nowhere so starkly as on Twitter, where those disagreeing with one another rail at anyone who will listen – and indeed, anyone who won't.

Religious belief reaches beyond the boundaries of nation states and embraces "intergenerational, long-term responsibilities" that "do not partake of economistic ways of thinking". Indeed, the "idea of the sacred" involves an "acceptance of limits and limitations" that strongly resembles the ethos of stewardship and simple living central to radical forms of climate justice.

They attest to Ms. Moore's ability to map the emotional landscape of people in transition, people who have run smack up against the limits and limitations of their lives, people who feel themselves to be outsiders in their own families and marriages.

"Lesbian dress is a kind of visualization of the limits and limitations of a masculine style" (Geczy and Karaminas 2013, p. 24).

This is a timeless comment: We know that for everything, limits and limitations are the key.

First, participants wanted to support patients' decision-making about medical tourism, but there were limits to and limitations on that support.