Sentence examples for spoke of limits from inspiring English sources

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Obama spoke of limits — the limits of American money, power, time, attention, of our ability to bend the world to our will — as much as of possibilities.

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In Remaking Society (1990) he wrote: "To speak of 'limits to growth' under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society.

These manipulations of the stage space are rather fancy, not to speak of limiting.

When people speak of "limited bandwidth", this is what they mean.

He does not speak of limiting the flow of immigrants into Mexico, and on to the United States, but greater regulation at the border would have that effect.

His advisers have even spoken of limiting the scope of Bolsa Família, the welfare program that pays fourteen million families a dollar or two a day if they send their kids to school.

While American officials have indicated that they would like to employ Kurdish forces in the event of a war, they speak of limiting the Kurds' role to their base in northern Iraq.

In other words, one can speak of limiting steps when sensitivities are concentrated (there is one or a few important reactions) instead of dispersed (all the reactions are equally important) [ 48].

In our conversation, Hillary Clinton spoke of the limits of an "educationalist" mind-set, which she called a "peculiar form of élitism".

Indeed, at the City Council, where lawmakers have weighed giving themselves 12 rather than 8 years in office, even those who spoke of term limits as an instrument of renewal wondered whether eight years in office is enough time to fully carry out an agenda or solidify new rules.

Tom Sutcliffe, writing for The Independent, spoke of the limits of taboo themes in family dramas, and said the film's "account of a life lived in care couldn't have had swearing, or casual drug use, and when a shadow fell over a child's bed at night, it wasn't the care-home manager coming to exercise some horrible, as it might have been in an adult drama".

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