The phrase
"limited extent" means that something is not fully or completely happening, but only happening to a small degree or in a partial way. It suggests that there are certain limitations or boundaries to how much of something is occurring or being done.
Full definition
This will help stop internal bleeding and swelling and hopefully
limit the extent of the injury.
To that
very limited extent I'm on the side of the «efficient market» school of thought now generally accepted by the professors.
The adjustment
cap limits the extent that your interest rate can change, up or down, at any single adjustment, while the lifetime cap limits the maximum interest rate you can pay.
Natural processes are working hard to keep the carbon cycle in balance by absorbing about half of our carbon emissions,
limiting the extent of climate change.
In the United States, they are grown to a very
limited extent in California under the brand name Mild Italian and in Nevada under the brand name Chileno.
The standing committee system in India
severely limits the extent of such scrutiny: committees are constrained to consider only those bills referred to them by Parliament, which effectively lets the executive decide the legislation that is reviewed by them.
Previous work on acoustic studies had to surround the object with loudspeakers,
which limits the extent of movement and restricts many applications.
The new guidelines
also limit the extent of physical therapy or treatment that injured workers can receive.
Beyond that, donations have come from multiple sources including major gift donors, grant sources, special events, caregivers, the public and
limited extent paid - for (tame cat) services (tame cats amounting to about 15 % of our volume).
Earlier studies in STEMI patients showed that ischemic postconditioning improved ST - segment resolution — an important marker of arterial blockage on electrocardiogram — reduced damage to heart muscle, and in some
patients limited the extent of reperfusion injury.
He found that the pattern of river networks on Mars
today limits the extent to which cratering has remodeled the surface of Mars.
But he cautions that atmospheric turbulence, which causes fluctuations in the amplitude and phase of a signal, would
probably limit the extent to which beams could be twisted and therefore restrict the number of available channels.
(See image) Although our ozone layer hasn't fully healed, cutting back on CFC emissions has
clearly limited the extent of the damage.
Sadly, the Authors Guild and publishers have successfully insisted that the right to have a text read out loud is a separate feature that doesn't come routinely when you license an ebook,
thus limiting the extent to which one key adaptive technology can be employed.
At Berkshire we focus almost exclusively on the valuations of individual companies, looking only to a very
limited extent at the valuation of the overall market.
Arthritis present prior to
surgery limits the extent of the recovery after surgery though surgery is still needed to slow or even curtail further arthritis development.
This plausible but optimistic estimate of the irreducible emissions of methane and N2O associated with
agriculture limits the extent to which the overall target depends on a miracle in agricultural technology — or, in a less sanguine view, the sacrifice of adequate nutrition for the preservation of the climate.
The Ontario Court of Appeal struck both claims, which to
date limit the extent Health Canada may be found liable for its regulatory functions.
In the UK, the Agency Workers Regulations
furthermore limit the extent of pay during those periods, an option that has been used by a number of high profile UK employers but has also been criticised by some as being contrary to the spirit of the Directive.
In Belcourt, Madam Justice Kirkpatrick found that Part VI was crafted to circumvent the possibility of «fishing expeditions» —
effectively limiting the extent to which police may cast their nets between texter and textee, ``... it is inherent in the nature of Part VI authorization that the investigative technique to be utilized by the police is prospective, which requires a distinct form of judicial authorization in comparison to other search warrants».
Whilst the court accepted Proactive's argument that Rooney's image rights were ancillary to his main trade of professional footballer, it crucially stated that the contract
nevertheless limited the extent to which he could take advantage of the earning capacity associated with that trade.
As a result of this background, the Secretary of State in the present case had already conceded that Part 4 of the Act was incompatible with EU law to the
same limited extent.
Conclusions: While the study
design limited the extent to which predictive associations could be interpreted as indicating causal relationships, adolescents with psychological dysregulation and higher levels of alcohol use may resist parental supervision.
I regret that resources
severely limited the extent of our coverage and, as with other chapters, the perspectives presented are indicative than comprehensive.
That's based on actions that the FDA has already taken, albeit to a much
more limited extent, in other areas.
But, so far, Congress has instead taken an intermediate position on the geographic scope of federal court jurisdiction in the jurisdictional portion of the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (which
also limits the extent to which «coupon settlements» of class action cases are permitted).
Two recent decisions by the Federal Court have
significantly limited the extent to which procedural rights can be relied upon by Indigenous parties to facilitate their negotiations with government:
«Negative impacts could be lessened by
limiting the extent of physical barriers and associated roads, designing barriers to permit animal passage and substituting less biologically harmful methods, such as electronic sensors, for physical barriers,» the letter states.
«Crews are trained in these incidents, but to
a limited extent,» said Philip Baum, managing director of Green Light, an aviation security training firm and consultancy.
This would allow Albertans, like Quebecers, to become «maitres chez nous,»
limiting the extent to which a «hostile federal government can encroach upon legitimate provincial jurisdiction.»