None of this need produce ugly buildings, but there will always be a self-imposed limit to architectural hardening.

In two hours, club officials reached their self-imposed limit of 2,500 dogs.

By the middle of 2011 it had reached its self-imposed limit of 400 members.

Mr. Williams said the museum could reconsider the self-imposed limits on 20th-century art.

It took a strong will to stick to self-imposed limits and remain a white ley line witch.

Those self-imposed limits also apply to war, which is never pretty.

Over the years, some state Green parties have come to place less emphasis on the principle of self-imposed limits than they did in the past.

Brevity and other self-imposed limits pay off for all 36 1/2 minutes of the Strokes' debut album.

The marathon relay, aided by excellent weather, was completed three hours inside the team's self-imposed limit of 12 days.

He intends to retire from the Senate in 2016 to honor a self-imposed two-term limit.