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- noun Plural form of
limit . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
limit .
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[Sidenote: Commons do not state the limits of submission.] [Sidenote: To secure the laws, the only aim of the Revolution.] "In clearing up and vindicating the justice of the Revolution, which was the second thing proposed, it is far from the intent of the Commons to state the _limits and bounds_ of the subject's submission to the sovereign.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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In fact, one of the supposed reasons he overturned the term limits law, twice affirmed by city voters, was that he alone had the financial know-how to manage the city through tough economic times.
Arthur Goldstein: Mayor Michael Bloomberg, His Crystal Ball, and the Crisis of the Century Arthur Goldstein 2011
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After all, Bloomberg's sheer chutzpah saw him change a term limits rule just so he could serve three times in office.
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Now, riding on a populist platform and World Bank praise for his economic strategies, he looks set for a third term after the Sandinista majority on the Supreme Court overruled the term limits set by the Nicaraguan constitution.
Nicaragua's president Daniel Ortega expected to win third term 2011
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In fact, one of the supposed reasons he overturned the term limits law, twice affirmed by city voters, was that he alone had the financial know-how to manage the city through tough economic times.
Arthur Goldstein: Mayor Michael Bloomberg, His Crystal Ball, and the Crisis of the Century Arthur Goldstein 2011
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Then, when he didn't like the term limits that the people of New York had decreed for their mayor -- well, he "privatized" that, too.
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Then, when he didn't like the term limits that the people of New York had decreed for their mayor -- well, he "privatized" that, too.
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In fact, one of the supposed reasons he overturned the term limits law, twice affirmed by city voters, was that he alone had the financial know-how to manage the city through tough economic times.
Arthur Goldstein: Mayor Michael Bloomberg, His Crystal Ball, and the Crisis of the Century Arthur Goldstein 2011
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Then, when he didn't like the term limits that the people of New York had decreed for their mayor -- well, he "privatized" that, too.
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In fact, one of the supposed reasons he overturned the term limits law, twice affirmed by city voters, was that he alone had the financial know-how to manage the city through tough economic times.
Arthur Goldstein: Mayor Michael Bloomberg, His Crystal Ball, and the Crisis of the Century Arthur Goldstein 2011
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