But its first job, according to American officials, will be to negotiate sharp limits on that sovereignty in many vital areas, particularly security matters.

American domestic policy is drifting leftward, but there are sharp limits on how far it will go.

But present-day technology appears to impose a sharp limit on the energy that can be achieved.

There is no sharp limit of development, age, or weight at which a fetus automatically becomes viable.

The strike amplifies the need for a sharp limit on the health benefit tax deduction.

He suggested a voluntary system of partial public financing for candidates with sharp limits on donations.

Californians, who always believed rain would eventually come, are suddenly having to cope with sharp limits on water use.

But the judge stopped short of ordering the much sharper limits on play that neighbors and the town had sought.

But by a 5-to-4 vote, the majority then placed sharp limits on how the precedent can be applied.

In any case, there are still sharp limits on the opportunities for foreign investors.