Sentence examples for limits of our capacity from inspiring English sources

Eva Lohse, the president of the German Association of Cities, said on Thursday: "We're reaching the limits of our capacity".

Once again we have been shamed into recognition of the limits of our capacity to understand and act humanely in the face of the brutality perpetrated on children.

On the Nomads trip, during the steepest passages and at the highest altitudes, even those of us who had done some training approached the limits of our capacity.

When Ludendorff informed German emperor William II of the disaster at Amiens, William replied, "We have reached the limits of our capacity.

The day before, Kaiser Wilhelm, a marginal figure by this time, had warned Ludendorff: "We have reached the limits of our capacity.

Speaking from the South Lawn, Obama argued that this was not just a matter of what the American people would accept, or the limits of our capacity to make sacrifices for humanitarian goals.

Given the numbers from yesterday, it is very clear that we have reached the upper limit of our capacity," said a police spokesman.

"We are committing ourselves up to the limit of our capacity to buy the house we want.

But that sentiment is consistent with another of MacMillan's conclusions: that history's ultimate utility does not lie in its predictive or even its explanatory value, but in its ability to teach humility, to nurture an appreciation of the limits on our capacity to see the past clearly or to know fully the historical determinants of our own brief passage in time.

No one knows where the limits of our adaptive capacity are, but a path towards 10C of warming will likely challenge these limits.

In the course of his discussion, Ehrenfels once again goes down the familiar road of Brentanist mathematics: a discussion of proper and symbolic presentations of number, the limits of our presentational capacity, proper number conceptions as based on (higher order) relations of distinction, etc. (Ehrenfels 1922, 30 ff).