The past two decades also have seen the world begin to reach its ecological limits.

Otherwise, China would quickly reach its limits to growth, with disastrous ecological and, as a result, political consequences.

Thus, the current strategy of kicking the can down the road will soon reach its limits, and a different plan will be needed to save the eurozone.

But improved efficiency has its limits.

Obviously, such a comparison has its limits.

Its fiscal weakness limits its ability to act as global policeman.

And here we reach the limits of my mental horizons as a neoliberal, as a technocrat, and as a mainstream neoclassical economist.

Its pickings are within reach .

But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you.

But even the Asian model may be reaching its limits.

That is the essence of understanding power, and its limits.

It is not an international organization, and it has no legal authority to speak for the world or to establish rules, norms, or standards for any state except its own members that China is not a member demonstrates clearly the limits of its reach.

The world is hitting global limits in its use of resources.

The current economic situation has pushed the EBRD to its limits.

The past two decades also have seen the world begin to reach its ecological limits. The majority of humanity has sought since November 9, 1989, to achieve Western living standards at all costs, overstretching our planet s climate and ecosystems.

Coercive democratization has its limits, as the US has learned in Iraq.

Those concerned with freedom of speech have always wondered about its limits.

Recently, Peru disputed its maritime limits with Chile in the Pacific Ocean.

Its shade hovering over them , and its fruit brought low within reach .

It seemed to many as though government s reach had come to exceed its grasp, and that either its grasp had to be strengthened or its reach had to be reduced.

But pragmatism has its limits, particularly when it permits dangerous situations to fester.

Let s not forget that, within the limits of its powers, the UN worked.

Realism, in the sense of balancing power by appeasing dictators, has its limits.

We see the importance of our work, but we also see its limits.

But no one will bail out these super sovereigns if the sovereigns prove to be insolvent. Thus, the current strategy of kicking the can down the road will soon reach its limits, and a different plan will be needed to save the eurozone.

This way the frame will always reach its intended destination.

Sweden will reach its one per cent target next year.

The Committee shall endeavour to reach its decisions by consensus.

Yet recent developments suggest that, if this policy is pushed to its limits, it stumbles on its own premises.

The Bush administration is internationally exposed in both the arrogance of its concepts and the limits of its power.

The fact that the Nicaraguan Institute for Women is part of the executive branch, together with its insufficient budget, limits its capacity to have an impact on the institutions and other Government authorities in order to reach a position where it could ensure the adoption of a gender equity approach within the Government.

Cyprus, and its neighbors, must now pull together to reach it.

The EU needs to reach out to its less developed neighbors.

Of course, pragmatism has its limits, because good government is also about upholding core values.

What we need is a vision of globalization that is fully cognizant of its limits.

Cyber activism has its limits it cannot, in the end, deliver either democracy or prosperity.

Elsewhere, the ethical debate is not about IVF itself, but the limits of its use.

The system is cracking, but only because of the limits of its absorptive capacity, not because of its core principles.

It has been shown to increase walking speed, although its high cost (over 1000 dollars a month) limits its usage.

To be sure, a corporation can and should place limits on the use of its services.

Government can also reduce corruption by limiting the reach of its activities.

America may be recognizing its limits, but no new system has emerged to take up the slack.

Its mountains reach above sea level in the national park of El Cajas.

We recognize that its structure and organization must reach beyond the Security Council.

Central bank alchemy, to borrow a term from the US journalist Neil Irwin s new book, has its limits.