Sentence examples for limit failed from inspiring English sources

His lawyer said Chambers, whose blood-alcohol level at the time of the arrest was.06percentt (below North Carolina's legal limit), failed a field sobriety test only because he misunderstood the instructions.

He has pushed the whistleblower system to its limit, failed to get a proper response from within the Met and decided that his conscience requires him to speak to the person most affected by this alleged wrongdoing – me.

If they fail to respond to a request from a patent office for more information within a set time limit, fail to pay related fees or write in to cancel their application, patent office officials can judge it to be abandoned.

What if a pregnant woman has a glass of wine with dinner now and then, or lives with a smoker; what if she drives over the speed limit, fails to get regular pre-natal care, or works in a coal mine, as many women in Kentucky do?

Critics said the administration's proposal to inform the Russians about the development of missile systems but not to subject the United States to formal limits failed to provide Moscow with sufficient assurance to believe that a limited American shield would stay limited.

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani yesterday vetoed legislation intended to protect one of the nation's most generous campaign finance systems, just a day after an effort to repeal term limits failed and galvanized dozens of candidates vying for open City Council seats.

Attempts led by Lord Harries, the former Bishop of Oxford, to amend the bill to relax the rules on spending by third-parties in individual constituencies and to exempt some staff costs from campaign spending limits failed - although the government only won the second vote on a technicality.

Outside of these detonability limits, failed detonations produced decaying detached shocks and flames propagating with velocities of approximately 1/2 DCJ.

Similarly, an attempt in the House last November to amend the highway construction bill to hike truck weight limits failed convincingly, 187 to 236.

Each year's cuts will be more painful than the last because the spending limits fail to keep pace with population growth, inflation and the needs of the economy.

Furthermore, the results from the fatigue tests revealed that the design limit was initially overestimated, as the specimens loaded close to the predicted design limit typically failed before reaching the target life, or reached test run-out with visible face sheet damage indicating imminent final failure in the worst case.