Sentence examples for limit on how far from inspiring English sources

Many linguists believe that once two languages have drifted so far apart that they share only 5percentt or so of their vocabulary, chance resemblances will overwhelm the true ones, setting a firm limit on how far back their ancestry can be traced.

That put a limit on how far he dared to push the reliable old autocrats.

still places a firm limit on how far they can go.

Stringer said she would not put a limit on how far Boston College could go in the N.C.A.A. tournament.

The Supreme Court on Thursday imposed an important limit on how far the government can go in controlling the speech of a group that takes government money.

There may be a limit on how far you can travel; Avis, for example, allows cars only into the free trade zone, about 20 miles into Mexico.

What seems obvious within a given space -- the shortest distance between two points, the way one travels from one point to another, the limits on how far one can travel at all -- is shown to be illusion when standing outside the space.

However, there are clear limits on how far one firefighter can go in harassing another, and physical violence is going too far.

For example, one participant noted " I am limited on how far (and) fast… I can walk" (p6).

But he acknowledged there were limits on how far any pawnshop could go.

There are considerable limits on how far government can or should endeavour to direct such measures.