By fixing the tax rate in advance of spending, upper limits are set on expenditures.

When sufficiently accurate and complete measurements are available, it will be possible to set limits on the thermal and electrical characteristics of the surface and subsurface materials of the moon.

The bond angles and distances are all within the expected limits and the volume per oxygen is about normal.

`` The ship is huge '', said Macneff, `` but the number of military men and specialists we are taking limits the linguists to one.

With this, the perspective of the author is removed from the text, and the limits formerly imposed by the idea of one authorial voice, one ultimate and universal meaning, are destroyed.

Some of the generic limits are not clear.

SAR performance limits mean that the fastest IP router ATM interfaces are STM16-STM64 which actually compares, while POS can operate at OC-192 ( STM64 ) with higher speeds expected in the future.

Detection limits for this technique are in the parts-per-billion range making it an excellent mercury detection atomization method.

The Gaussian theory, however, is only true so long as the angles made by all rays with the optical axis ( the symmetrical axis of the system ) are infinitely small, i. e. with infinitesimal objects, images and lenses ; in practice these conditions are not realized, and the images projected by uncorrected systems are, in general, ill defined and often completely blurred, if the aperture or field of view exceeds certain limits.

Picoammeters are used for sensitive measurements where the current being measured is below the theoretical limits of sensitivity of other devices, such as Multimeters.

Reason makes equal claim to each proof, since they are both correct, so the question of the limits of time must be regarded as meaningless.

An ideal amplifier would be a totally linear device, but real amplifiers are only linear within limits.

Many amplifiers are ultimately slew rate limited ( typically by the impedance of a drive current having to overcome capacitive effects at some point in the circuit ), which sometimes limits the full power bandwidth to frequencies well below the amplifier's small-signal frequency response.

Because the Belarus government severely limits free expression, several opposition media outlets are broadcast from nearby countries to help provide Belarusians alternative points of view.

An example of bad spending plans is the large-scale purchasing of transport aircraft, while the Air Force has a severe need of new fighters ( the MiG-29s, even though modernized, are nearing their operational limits ).

The Bosphorus ' limits are defined as the connecting line between the lighthouses Rumeli Feneri and Anadolu Feneri in the north and between the Ahırkapı Feneri and the Kadıköy İnciburnu Feneri in the south.

All candidates must be at least eighteen years old ; there are no term limits.

Beit Jala and the latter form an agglomeration with Bethlehem and the Aida and Azza refugee camps are located within the city limits.

Because breasts are mostly fatty tissue, their shape can within limits be molded by clothing, such as foundation garments.

Paths are not bound by the limits of rasterized images and are intuitive to modify.

There are regular bus services within the urban limits of the cities of Praia on Santiago Island and Mindelo on São Vicente island only.

Hipparcos also suggested that Arcturus is a binary star, with the companion about twenty times dimmer than the primary and orbiting close enough to be at the very limits of our current ability to make it out.

Blumenbach also noted the graded transition in appearances from one group to adjacent groups and suggested that " one variety of mankind does so sensibly pass into the other, that you cannot mark out the limits between them ".

Therefore, suggested Kant, on the basis of such a self, it is in fact possible to reason both about the conditions and limits of human knowledge.

Instead of financial stability inducing deregulation and financial instability after 1980, as later suggested by David Moss and Elizabeth Warren, Thomas Huertas and other critics of traditional bank regulation argued Regulation Q limits on interest rates ( mandated by the 1933 Banking Act ) created the “ disintermediation ” that began in the 1960s, led to the phase-out of Regulation Q through the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980, and opened banking to greater competition.

As Kotlikoff notes, in 1987 Robert Litan proposed “ narrow banking .” Litan suggested commercial banking firms be freed from Glass-Steagall limits ( and other activity restrictions ) so long as they isolated FDIC insured deposits in a “ narrow bank ” that was only permitted to invest those deposits in “ safe securities ” approved by the FDIC.

The concept of using limits as a foundation for calculus had been suggested by d ' Alembert, but d ' Alembert's definition was not rigorous by modern standards.

A tobacco industry-funded study conducted by the School of Technology of the University of Glamorgan in Wales, published in the Building Services Journal suggested that " ventilation is effective in controlling the level of contamination ", although " ventilation can only dilute or partially displace contaminants and occupational exposure limits are based on the ' as low as reasonably practicable ' principle ".

" Harman suggested that both the original " despicable " whistleblowers and The New York Times, which broke the story, should be investigated, and in the case of The Times, " limits on press immunity " should be looked into.

Some research has suggested this relationship between muscle and masculinity may begin early in life, as boys ' action figures are often depicted as super-muscular, often beyond the actual limits of human physiology.

For these limits, Holt suggested the 200 fathom ( 366 m ) marine contour and the island of Ushant off the tip of Brittany.

This is the altitudinal limits of these crops, and it has been suggested that cultivation in more favourable ranges in the lowlands may have been even earlier.

It is suggested by Dr. Heywood Floyd that they possess some sort of force shield, an impression he gets from touching it and much later accepted as most probable because the monoliths resist destructive testing beyond the theoretical limits of material strength.

Commoner suggested a left-wing, eco-socialist response to the limits to growth thesis, postulating that capitalist technologies were chiefly responsible for environmental degradation, as opposed to population pressures.

It has, in fact, been suggested by opponents of legislative term limits that the 2000 amendment limiting senators to two four-year terms had been conceived largely to force him from his position.

The people of Kobol developed space-faring technology, and within the story it is suggested that their population likely reached the limits inherent in occupying a single planet, and, coupled with other disasters or factors ( such as the star around which Kobol revolves ), motivated humans to leave the planet.

He disapproved of the custom of burying the dead inside churches ; instead, he suggested burying the dead outside the city limits in a graveyard chosen by the Church and owned by the town council.

The Marine Accident Investigation Branch report on the incident suggested however that the condition of the boat, the lack of safety equipment onboard and a poor look out were more likely to have been contributing factors, but did emphasise that speed limits should be adhered to and that small boat owners should be made aware of the dangers of ferry-induced washes.

Those who prefer to accentuate the elements suggested by the very term ' heroic ' rather than the strict rhymed verse form are willing to admit wider limits.

Certainly all can applaud passage of an auto title law, the school bills, the increase in teacher pensions, the ban on drag racing, acceptance by the state of responsibility for maintenance of state roads in municipalities at the same rate as outside city limits, repeal of the college age limit law and the road maintenance bond issue.

The Department of Defense appropriation acts for the past several years have contained a rider which limits competitive bidding by firms in other countries on certain military supply items.

the purpose of producing plays at the College is three-fold: to provide the Carleton students with the best possible opportunity for theater-going within the limits set by the maturity and experience of the performers and the theatrical facilities available ; ;

It should be possible, however, to put useful limits on the diameters of the radio sources by observing with large reflectors or with interferometers.

Sample areas in the new investigations were selected strictly by application of the principles of probability theory, so as to be representative of the total population of defined areas within calculable limits.

States were free to enact, within broad, though ( perhaps ) determinate limits, their own rules as to the application of foreign law by their courts, to vary the law merchant, and to enact legislation with regard to many claims arising on the high seas.

High-gain, photoelectronic image intensification is applied under conditions of low incident light levels whenever the integration time required by a sensor or recording instrument exceeds the limits of practicability.

The Xanthorrhoeaceae, or grasstree, family has been recognized by most taxonomists, but the limits of the family have varied greatly.

However, the scarcity and poor quality of road infrastructure limits land transportation by conventional vehicles.

Disability is defined by the ADA as " a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity ".

He concludes the volume by setting out the limits of knowledge once and for all.

In the 5th century at least there were scarcely any limits on the power exercised by the assembly.

No variables could be allowed to exceed the computer's limits, and differentiation was to be avoided, typically by rearranging the " network " of interconnects, using integrators in a different sense.

This obviously limits the usefulness of silence as a tactic by the defense.

With these elements, hydride atomization enhances detection limits by a factor of 10 to 100 compared to alternative methods.

In laboratory tests, state researchers found the average brass key, new or old, exceeded the California Proposition 65 limits by an average factor of 19, assuming handling twice a day.

Bordered by the coasts of Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Germany extends north-eastward of the following limits:

The recent measurements made by WMAP, for example, have placed limits on the neutrino masses.