27 Metaphors for limit

Time may yet vindicate the theory of the framers that the limit of democracy is the selection of true and tried representatives.

We know that the limits within which the variation is confined are the ratio between their costs of production in the one country, and the ratio between their costs of production in the other.

Mexico held that the western limit was the Nueces.

Bill placed a second fifty dollar note on another card, when Boulder informed him that the limit was twenty-five dollars.

The elastic limit is that point on the diagram where the square of the deflection begins to increase more rapidly than the height of drop.

The downward limit of my work is a little vague.

The limit of tolerance is the variation either above or below the standard weight or fineness that a coin is allowed to have when it leaves the mint.

Its eastern limit is northern Michigan.

These limits are because annual and short-time appointments after teaching persons what they need to know send them back again before they can display any of their knowledge: and, on the other hand, longer and more lasting positions fill many with conceit and incline them to rebellion.

Business conditions remaining unchanged, the limit of possible issue without depreciation is the number of units in circulation before the paper money was issued, the saturation point of full-weight and full-value coins.

Otherwise, our only limit will be the total destruction of these unknown people, or our own annihilation.

It is probable, however, that the limit of his ability as a general in the field was the management of an army corps; he seems to have been confused in the attempt to direct the movements of the larger body.

So, as has been seen, he patronized and encouraged Mary; he told himself that, when she had thoroughly proved her capacitywithin the limits which he ascribed to itto take her into partnership would not be a bad arrangement.

Why, the Psalmist's limit is only seventy.

the immensity of our Niger; the immensity of the plains it waters; the immensity of our fields, whose only limit is the distant horizon!

So that the limit to the means of subsistence is only the want of room to raise it in, or, as Wallace expresses it, "a limited fertility and a limited earth."

The eastern extreme of the reef was not seen; the southern limit is in latitude 14 degrees 15 minutes South; and the north-west extreme being in 13 degrees 55 minutes South, and longitude 6 degrees 2 minutes East of Swan River, gives it an extent of twenty miles in a north and south direction.

Taking these words in their natural sense, I should think that the furthest limit they would fairly admit of would be a generation, or say thirty years, after the death of Pius (for even in taking a date such as this we are obliged to assume that the Pastor was published only just before the death of that bishop).

The limit of the issue of such notes is the need of the community for that form of money, and if they are promptly redeemed in standard money on demand, they never can exceed that amount.

The only limits he regarded were the limits to his power.

This last estimate is just about ten times too strong, for the only country visited was that of the Overhill Cherokees, and the outside limit for the population of the devastated territory would be some four thousand souls, or a third of the Cherokee tribe, which all told numbered perhaps twelve thousand people.

Their southern limit is the settlement of Tigil, on the west coast, where they come annually to trade, and they are rarely found north of the village of Penzhina, two hundred miles from the head of the Okhotsk Sea.

What need to control when the only speed limit was a man's capacity to aim and fire?

And what's a limit?" "A limit is one square milesix hundred and forty acres more or lessof merchantable timber land," he explained.

The only assignable limit to the inclination to borrow, is the power of giving security: the producers would find it difficult to borrow more than an amount equal to their own capital.

27 Metaphors for  limit