Sentence examples for modest limits on from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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.

One immediate result of the Citizens United ruling, as Justice John Paul Stevens noted in dissent, is that these states "may no longer have the ability to place modest limits on corporate electioneering even if they believe such limits to be critical to maintaining the integrity of their judicial systems".

And the rapid government changeover in the UK has boosted hopes that the divorce negotiations with the EU, however bumpy, will lead to a settlement that maintains most trade links by combining substantial access to the single market with modest limits on migration.

Although these findings are suggestive, the fact that in the present study TNF-α blockade had only a modest limiting effect on disease activity indicates that TNF-α is not a major determinant of the pathophysiology in PMR.

Following a recent ruling by the European Court of Human Rights, legislation currently going through parliament will place (fairly modest) new limits on whose profiles can be stored and for how long.

"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".

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

What Hobbes meant by that claim has been a topic of scholarly debate ever since; suffice it to say that he thought that there were modest but real moral limits on what the sovereign could legitimately demand of its subjects.