Sentence examples for present limits from inspiring English sources

Alpine glaciers advanced far below their previous (and present) limits, obliterating farms, churches, and villages in Switzerland, France, and elsewhere.

No resident administrative authorities were established within the present limits of the Northwest Territories until the 20th century.

From about 1900, it generally was accepted that the head of the gulf once extended as far north as Baghdad and had been pushed back to its present limits by silting over the course of millennia.

The earliest European settlements within the present limits of the state of Pennsylvania were some small trading posts established by the Swedes and the Dutch in the lower valley of the Delaware River in 1623 81.

Mr. Annan did not directly address the issue being worked out between Western governments: whether the mandate of the multinational brigade should be extended, as Mr. Karzai favors, beyond its present limits to include at least the four other cities: Jalalabad, Kandahar, Herat and Mazar-i-Sharif.

Private citizens will then no longer need government permission to transfer large sums overseas, and will not be held to the present limits of $100,000 a year for educational expenses for family members studying abroad or $50,000 a year for gifts.

Yesterday morning home secretary Theresa May said she, too, favoured 20 weeks and by the afternoon David Cameron had backed a reduction in the present limit.

Diane Abbott, who is Labour's shadow public health minister, accused ministers of "playing politics with people's lives", insisting there was no justification for a reduction in the present limit.

The joint Lords-Commons committee on human rights (JCHR) said in a report that evidence from the Crown Prosecution Service that it was satisfied with the present limit "seems devastating to the government's case for an extension".

Around 1% of babies who are born at 22 weeks survive, although not without disability or serious health issues, which is thought to be why some feel unsettled by the present limit.

We present limited data to demonstrate our hypothesis.