• The natural limits of the size of smartphones put a de facto upper limit on how heavy they can be.

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  • Under the committee's recommendations, there would be tougher limits on the size of the "payroll vote", junior ministers would no longer be entitled to a Commons aide and there would be an end to the appointment of unpaid ministers to circumvent legal limits on the size of government.

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  • Several years ago, therefore, Robin Dunbar, an anthropologist who now works at Oxford University, concluded that the cognitive power of the brain limits the size of the social network that an individual of any given species can develop.

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  • It increases state control over the economy, limits the size of big land holdings and redistributes revenues from the important gas fields in the eastern lowlands to poorer parts of the nation.

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  • Despite the usual complaints about government heavy-handedness from Republicans and business lobbyists, the House bill contains none of the expected attempts to impose detailed limits on the size or structure of pay that would merit such alarm.

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  • That amendment, which failed by a 61 to 33 vote in the Senate, would have placed limits on the size of financial institutions.

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  • In March, Colorado introduced new gun legislation to impose limits on the size of ammunition magazines and expand background checks for gun buyers.

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  • These include airport-style limits on the size of bags that can be carried and the quantity of liquids that can be taken in.

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  • And it does something very simple: It places some limits on the size of banks and the kinds of risks that banking institutions can take.

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  • There would be no "ex ante limits on the size" of the purchases, Draghi said, repeating his pledge to do "whatever it takes" to save the euro.

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  • The President's proposal would put limits on the size and scope of the U.S. banking sector in the interest of addressing risk management and conflict-of-interest concerns.

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  • When the size and time limits of social media are added, any claim that great ideas will still emerge from collisions of smaller ideas falls apart because small ideas, expressed only as generalities, can never capture the needed depth to address complex issues.

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  • Baroness Hayman said there was a need for reform of the upper house in the form of "incremental progress" and cited areas including the size of the chamber, term limits for appointees and enabling members to retire, around which consensus might be reached.

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  • If JP was recording the position value of each tick of the trading day, the size of the array would quickly exceed the memory limits of most computers in a short amount of time.

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  • Canadian Defense Minister Art Eggleton said Sunday on CBC Newsworld that "we may have to rework how some of our forces are currently deployed, " and said there are limits on how much Canada can contribute because of the size of its military.

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  • First, the company increased video lengths, then raised file size limits, but most importantly the growth of mobile phones and tablets as both content creation and consumption devices have driven usage through the roof.

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  • Just as grain size in silver halide film ultimately limits the amount of detail you can see in a photograph, the background noise produced by the sensor does much the same in digital imaging.

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  • Because there has never been a leak this size at this depth, stopping it has tested the limits of human technology.

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  • ISE's system eliminates the fees that a market-maker would charge and doesn't place size limits on trade blocks, making it appealing to the growing number of hedge funds and proprietary trading desks that use computer algorithms to send orders through an exchange.

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  • We got an early look at the shooter on the showroom floor, and the compact size is truly striking -- the body is comparable in size to any other mirrorless camera, though it definitely pushes the limits of what we'd consider pocketable.

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  • This option was rejected by the committee because, even though there would still be limits on what share of their income graduates would have to pay, they might be alarmed at the size of their outstanding debt, especially in the early years when interest charges may be accruing faster than the debt is being paid off.

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  • Future aperture upper limits on balloon-borne telescopes are expected to be some 2.5-meters, about the size of the Hubble Space Telescope.

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  • It also dramatically opens up the size of the field from which to choose a coach, since there aren't any geographical limits.

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