For years, Mr. Frank and other friends of Fan and Fred opposed not only bills written to limit the size of their portfolios, but any bill that in their view gave an independent regulator too much discretion to order a reduction.
Like Congress, the Colorado state legislature is considering a package of gun control legislation designed to broaden background checks to include private sales and limit the size of ammunition magazines.
Mr. Cuomo also plans to propose broadening the definition of what kind of gun falls under the state's assault-weapon ban and would seek to limit the size of gun ammunition magazines, the people said.
Furthermore, under the gold standard, there was a culture of fiscal restraint that helped limit the size and scope of government.
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Redefining the dollar with a certain value in gold would encourage prosperity and limit the size of government.
Menlo Park zoning rules limit the size of homes in different areas.
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Bloomberg stands accused because he is attempting to limit the size of sodas after previously oppressing New York residents by restricting public smoking and regulating sodium and trans fats in food.
Critics say the measure will be ineffective because it does not limit the size of dairy-based drinks, like milkshakes and fruit juices, which often contain high amounts of sugar and are calorie laden.
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Bloomberg also has pushed a number of other pioneering public-health measures, such as compelling chain restaurants to post calorie counts on their menus, banning artificial trans fats in restaurants, and attempting to limit the size of sugary drinks.
Yet the nature of m-commerce transactions, most relatively small in size and concentrated on items that are time- or location-sensitive, will limit the overall size of the m-commerce market.
Biden advocated a series of proposals, including universal background checks for gun owners, a ban on many military-style weapons and a limit on the size of magazines.
Placing a limit on the size of transactions and the total balance that can be stored reduces the risk of mobile money being used to launder cash.
The panel, which included Andrew Bednar from investment bank Perella Weinberg as well, agreed that the only limit on the size of buyouts is the depth of debt markets.
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Christophe Dubi, director of sport for the IOC, said the vote was part of a process that began in 2001 after Dr. Jacques Rogge took over as president of the organization and said he wanted to limit the size, cost and complexity of the Games.
The natural limits of the size of smartphones put a de facto upper limit on how heavy they can be.
But to win its budget wars, Canada first had to realize how dire its situation was and then dramatically shrink the size of government rather than just limit the pace of spending growth.
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The complexity that arises from the combination of these activities is reason enough to limit each institution's size, to ensure that an individual failure would not disrupt the economy.
Further, the Bloomberg-appointed Board of Health went beyond its authority in approving the size limit, the judge said, agreeing with the critics that the matter should have been up to the elected City Council.
Similarly, I want to encourage you to think about expenditures in the context of the income that your investments can produce as opposed to the size of your bank balance (or your credit limit).
Gas Natural is half the size of Endesa and stretched its financial fire-power to the limit with last year's bid.
The Environment Agency has previously conducted a test measuring the size of wood chip particles in the air, which came back well within the UK limit.
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