Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being limited, circumscribed, bounded, or restricted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being limited.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Able to belimited .
Etymologies
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Examples
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No amount of Presidential power is a threat to the United States, as long as its extent is (a) known and (b) limitable by Congress.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Jack Goldsmith Prefer Barack Obama to Dick Cheney? 2009
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I think it's limitable that they are so short-sighted in their reasoning, but, you know, that's what makes America great.
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The President is bestowed by the Constitution with the unlimited and un-limitable power to do anything that he believes is necessary to "protect the nation."
Administration tells Congress (again) - We won't abide by your "laws" Glenn Greenwald 2006
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The President is bestowed by the Constitution with the unlimited and un-limitable power to do anything that he believes is necessary to "protect the nation."
Archive 2006-03-01 Glenn Greenwald 2006
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It's worth remembering that in our country today, the President is the "sole organ" in all such matters, and he has full, limitless, and un-limitable authority to do whatever he wants.
Does the debate over Iran matter? Glenn Greenwald 2006
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It's worth remembering that in our country today, the President is the "sole organ" in all such matters, and he has full, limitless, and un-limitable authority to do whatever he wants.
Archive 2006-04-01 Glenn Greenwald 2006
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There is no gas or sewer service and very limitable electricity.
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State is the least limitable of the exercises of government, such limitations as are applicable thereto are not readily definable.
The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 Edward Samuel Corwin 1920
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But I think it may be safely presumed, that “he who inherits an estate, inherits all the power legally concomitant;” and that “He who gives or leaves unlimited an estate legally limitable, must be presumed to give that power of limitation which he omitted to take away, and to commit future contingencies to future prudence.”
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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To argue or imply that because sovereignty is not limitable
England's Case Against Home Rule Albert Venn Dicey 1878
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