Yet during the years when I was on the staff of The Nation, I tried to the limit the patience of the editors on almost every occasion when I was permitted to write an editorial having a bearing on a political or social question.

Now, under the impact of his wife's disclosures, he was brought suddenly to the realization that there was a limit to tolerance, however brilliant, however far-famed the offender might be.

The lower limit was determined by the fact that for smaller flow rates the arc started to strike to the anode holder instead of to the porous graphite plug and that it became highly unstable.

The upper limit was determined by the difficulty of measuring the characteristic anode surface temperature ( see below ) since only a small region of the anode was struck by the arc.

The actual pressure was not determined because the pressure was beyond the upper limit of the apparatus on hand.

his search was merely for rules that might limit his freedom of action.

Of course, her benevolence was limited to those who could afford it, but then there is a limit to what one person can do.

However likely it was, Pauling said, he couldn't limit himself to it.

The question whether there is a limit to the degree of cold possible, and, if so, where the zero must be placed, was first addressed by the French physicist Guillaume Amontons in 1702, in connection with his improvements in the air thermometer.

The city suffered extreme overcrowding and deplorable sanitary conditions up to 1875 when the medieval fortifications were finally abandoned as a limit to building operations and new, less miserable quarters were built in the eastern part of the city, where drainage of waste liquids was easiest.

Eliminating the turret also allowed the vehicle to carry thicker armor than would otherwise be the case, although sometimes there was no roof ( or merely a strip of canvas ) to keep the overall weight down to the limit that the chassis could bear.

Digicel then issued court proceedings against the Regulator, arguing that he had acted improperly by imposing an arbitrary limit of three licenses ( although interestingly no complaint was made about the decision to prefer BVI Cable TV's improbable license over Digicel ).

Otherwise, for the benefit of the wicked, it was more proper to set a limit for their rage by my silence, rather than any new things written to provoke daily the insanity of the envious.

In 1986, high-temperature superconductivity was discovered ( i. e. superconductivity at temperatures considerably above the previous limit of about 30 K ; up to about 130 K ).

was later shown to be exact in the dense limit of pairs.

But in 1939, Robert Oppenheimer and others predicted that neutron stars above approximately three solar masses ( the Tolman – Oppenheimer – Volkoff limit ) would collapse into black holes for the reasons presented by Chandrasekhar, and concluded that no law of physics was likely to intervene and stop at least some stars from collapsing to black holes.

On 31 December 2010 the general FSCS limit for retail deposits was increased to £ 85, 000 for banks and building societies and the transitional arrangements in respect of building society mergers came to an end.

Bulgaria's policy was that the agreement would limit Serbia's access to Macedonia, while at the same time Bulgaria could take as much as its army could regardless of Greek wishes.

In 1876 the " mile limit law " was passed, which prevented sale or public consumption of alcohol within one mile ( 1. 6 km ) of the new University of California.

A decision-theoretic justification of the use of Bayesian inference ( and hence of Bayesian probabilities ) was given by Abraham Wald, who proved that every admissible statistical procedure is either a Bayesian procedure or a limit of Bayesian procedures.

He was also hesitant to change the formula that had brought him such success, and feared that giving the Tramp a voice would limit his international appeal.

Consequently, a decision was made in the 6th century to limit the number of fili to certain families who were respected and believed to be poets as a birth right.

One reel -- from eight to twelve minutes -- became the standard length from the year of Robbery, 1903, until Griffith shattered that limit forever with Birth Of A Nation in 1915.

The distribution begins as a Dirac delta function, indicating that all the particles are located at the origin at time t = 0, and for increasing times they become flatter and flatter until the distribution becomes uniform in the asymptotic time limit.

More likely, they marched until they reached the limit of the archers ' effectiveness, the " beaten zone " ( roughly 200 meters ), and then broke into a run towards their enemy.

The process could then be repeated by dividing the resulting smaller interval into smaller and smaller parts until it closes down on the desired limit point.

In advanced radiosity simulation, recursive, finite-element algorithms ' bounce ' light back and forth between surfaces in the model, until some recursion limit is reached.

" The process outlined at steps 5 and 6a then repeats until the auditing session's time limit ( usually two hours or so ) is reached.

The dispute dragged on until after Beatty's retirement, and a further naval disarmament treaty, ( the London Treaty of 1930 ) would limit the numbers of cruisers.

Although 3. 3 or 3. 9 mmol / L ( 60 or 70 mg / dL ) is commonly cited as the lower limit of normal glucose, symptoms of hypoglycemia usually do not occur until 2. 8 to 3. 0 mmol / L ( 50 to 54 mg / dL ).

After the limit is reached, further attempts will fail ( including correct password attempts ) until the beginning of the next time period.

# Repeat on this generation until termination ( time limit, sufficient fitness achieved, etc.

The contraction will proceed until the Hayashi limit is reached, and thereafter contraction will continue on a Kelvin – Helmholtz timescale with the temperature remaining stable.

This continued until orphanages were established and the states began to limit adoption by religious groups.

This ratio increases for each lower level of people's assemblies, until the lowest level, the village level, has no limit on the number of candidates for each seat.

Turgot was one of the first to recognize that “ successive applications of the variable input will cause the product to grow, first at an increasing rate, later at a diminishing rate until it reaches a maximum .” This was a recognition that the productivity gains required to increase national wealth had an ultimate limit, and, therefore, wealth was not infinite.

* An automatic ice machine makes ice until a limit switch is thrown.

California is the major exception, in that it has no default time limit ; depositions can theoretically proceed indefinitely, or at least until the deposition becomes so obviously excessive and burdensome that the deponent is able to move for a protective order.

For beer, however, the 0. 5 % limit remained until 1933.

However, the five-day limit was removed and a champion was able to stay until either winning a car or being defeated.

Even after PCs broke the 640 KB limit with the 80286, special programming techniques were required to address significant amounts of memory until the 80386, as opposed to other 32-bit processors such as SPARC which provided straightforward access to nearly their entire 4 GB memory address range.

In fact all relevant laws order the authorities to obtain approval from the judge within a certain time limit, but deny to the detainee access by his own initiative until that limit has been reached.

Bradley also lost time to a series of injuries that would limit him to a total of 49 games from 1996 until his retirement in December 1999.

:: See Committee Note to Interim Rule 8001 ( f ) (" Given the short time limit to file the petition with the circuit clerk, subdivision ( f )( 1 ) provides that entry of a certification on the docket does not occur until an effective appeal is taken under Rule 8003 ( a ) or ( b ).

In 2005, That's So Raven became the network's highest-rated series since the network's move to basic cable ; as well as being the first original series to beat the 65-episode limit ( the highly controversial programming rule implemented in 1998, had guaranteed any original series would end after 65 episodes to prevent production costs from increasing ; however this rule is no longer enforced ); the series eventually hit 100 episodes, becoming the channel's longest-running original series until October 2011 and became the first to spawn a spin-off, Cory in the House.