Sentence examples for marked the limit from inspiring English sources

The overpass — known simply as "the bridge" — had for weeks marked the limit of the rebels' advance.

When Alexander arrived on the banks of the Jaxartes (Syr Darya) River, it marked the limit of the "civilized" world; beyond stretched the Eurasian wilderness.

After flying to São Luis, the capital of Maranhão state, it took more than eight hours to drive along a potholed highway flanked by cattle farms and palm plantations before turning off on to a bumpy dirt track through tracts of deforested land, until a dense thicket of jungle marked the limit of Ka'apor territory.

In some cases, portions of forest marked the limit of the backyards, corrals and pastures, and wild animals including mice, rats, little spotted cats, capybaras, red-legged siriemas, opossums, marmosets and cattle egrets were frequently sighted around the properties.

Maps have always plotted the world-views of their makers and marked the limits of their vision.

Attempts to invade Abyssinia in 1875 and 1876 were, however, unsuccessful and marked the limits of Ismāʿīl's imperial expansion.

Quatre Bornes (French: "Four Boundaries") was named for the boundary stones that marked the limits of four large sugar estates once situated there.

In the early 12th century, St. Margaret's Chapel on the Castle Rock and the gate at the Netherbow to Holyrood Abbey, endowed by Margaret's son King David I, marked the limits of the Old Town, with the parish church of St. Giles between.

2014 marked the limits to the policy of austerity.

In Spanish villages, it was usual to have boundary crosses, which marked the limits of the village and scared away the evil spirits from the boundaries of their populations.

The only concession to the irreality of the image was a digital "sticker" of the company logo at my invisible feet, which marked the limits of the Jaunt's field of vision.