Sentence examples for modest limits from inspiring English sources

But lawmakers seeking even modest limits on gun rights seem almost resigned to failure.

Within modest limits, he argues, solar power can play a bigger role in meeting energy needs, especially with new technology that transforms infrared light into electricity.

As Weisman reports, some Democratic senators are considering making a serious effort next January to place modest limits on this outrageous, abusive, blatantly unconstitutional practice.

The power driving agricultural and other production was almost entirely supplied by humans and animals, which set modest limits to economic growth.

They oppose the 300,000-plus abortions it performs every year (making it the largest abortion provider in the country), and they oppose its tireless opposition to even modest limits on abortion.

Coal consumption has grown rapidly in China, and the plan places only modest limits on consumption, with coal to account for no more than 65 percent of energy use in 2017, compared with around 67 percent last year.

So far, efforts by media companies are modest, limited largely to games, ring tones and wallpaper.

He kept his offers modest, limiting them to a role player or two.

"I looked up Indiana on the Web site," said Senator Richard G. Lugar, Republican of Indiana, "and very few Indiana farmers would be affected by a modest limit".

It has built 1.4m brick homes for the poor, and delivered free water, up to a modest limit, to 26m of South Africa's 45m people.

3) When he opened a new card before he took a recent trip (per his blog) he was assigned a credit limit of $5,000, which is a modest limit.