Sentence examples for old limit from inspiring English sources

For tall goalies, the number can exceed the old limit.

Since Iraq's battered oil industry had trouble reaching even the old limit, the resolution also pledges to find ways to increase the country's oil exports.

The United States also intends to adhere to the old limit, since, in the opinion of President Roosevelt, the international situation does not call for larger vessels.

He has already drafted a plan to restore the old limit of 40%—although some in his coalition apparently favour a ceiling of only 26%.

The limit of 1,200 visitors a week, she gratefully notes, marks an improvement worked out with local officials over the old limit of 500.

It would also force each side to reduce its strategic bombers and land- and sea-based missiles to below 800, down from the old limit of 1,600.

For the last few years the U.S. economy has cheerfully broken all the old limits.

Under Shah Abbas and his successors, they restored the ancient Persian empire within its old limits, which are more or less the frontiers of modern Iran.

These days Showtime's "Queer as Folk" (whose time slot "Further Tales" is borrowing for four weeks) has pushed those old limits around the bend and back.

What it does not have are the campaign's old limits on who can donate money and how much they can give.

The Supreme Court blew away the old limits on fund-raising, but parties still have it in their power to prevent 2012 from being a ferocious escalation.