But the power to tax is not limitless.

Straightforward size limits on banks also find no favor.

Attempting to impose democracy on others is an act of unbounded arrogance.

Establishing limitations on animal numbers requires agreement on an initial allocation of grazing rights.

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

The rules need to impose limits on deficits, spending, and debt, and require transparency so that the public knows what s going on.

While demanding an Israeli withdrawal for years, the Palestinian leadership opposes Sharon's plan, arguing it is intended to create permanent borders.

But the proposals ran into outright opposition from Joseph Stalin, who would accept no limit to the Soviet Union s ability to develop its own nuclear weapons.

After a rough passage to democracy, a traditionally strong Indonesian state is reasserting itself, forcing jihadists out, and across Mindanao s porous frontiers.

For it is precept on precept, precept on precept line on line, line on line here a little, there a little.

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept line upon line, line upon line here a little, and there a little

What we need are traffic rules for the global economy that help vehicles of varying size, shape, and speed navigate around each other, rather than imposing an identical car or a uniform speed limit.

Coalition members could also agree to provide stronger incentives to their own producers, through either more stringent caps on emissions or higher taxes on pollution.

But the power to tax has practical limits, and governments moral or legal right to bind future generations of citizens to repay foreign creditors is questionable.

On possible approaches to controversial items, several participants expressed their concern at stalemates over agenda items and items held in abeyance.

There is a real risk that a price for passing a domestic cap and trade bill will be potential trade sanctions on big emerging country emitters that refuse to accept mandatory limits of some kind.

If outer space is infinite, our patience is not.

2. America once defined free trade for the new global economy, but many Americans are now using demands for fair trade to impose reactionary and protectionist trade policies.

The Volcker rule? It is unlikely that the impact would be significant in the UK, or, by implication, elsewhere outside the US.

Outline

The Limits to Panic

The Borders of Liberalism

The Frontiers of Power

The Limits of Bonapartism

The Limits of Democracy

The Limits of Dubai

When Enough is Not Enough

They're playing to discover what the technology can do, and probably to discover what they can do themselves, what their own capabilities are.

Sentencing

But other goals, such as promoting democracy and human rights, are better achieved by soft power. Coercive democratization has its limits, as the US has learned in Iraq.

But what about Africa, the forgotten continent that has been conspicuously absent from Obama s hectic agenda? There, both the resilience of the local political culture and strategic imperatives are converging to define the limits of the West s capacity to impose its values.

Islamization was the main tool of repression, in particular the imposition of Sharia law.

Diseases Without Borders

Evolution s New Frontiers

The Limits of German Guilt

Education Without Borders

Duties Without Borders

The New Frontiers of Loyalty

Bankers without Borders

No Smile Limit

The Last Resource Frontier

The Limits of Twitter Diplomacy

Bankers with Borders

No Area Limit

No Depth Limit