The very limits of the island geography finally forced us to explore another world.

The limits take effect this year, and would force 35 of the 51 Council members to leave office.

The limits would probably force manufacturers to raise the price of the products.

Many programmers insist that the limits of the old machines force programmers to be more resourceful.

The union hopes the limits would force Ford to hire more workers, a prospect the company rejects.

While advocates of the elderly cheer these changes, they say the limits still force a real decline in living standards and security on some surviving spouses.

The limits, they add, would force hospitals to absorb the extra costs or discharge elderly people before they have been accepted in a nursing home.

This limit often forces the retirement of long-time justices.

Five years later, a much more stringent limit will force the industry to reduce emissions to less than half of the 1991 level.

The strict limits on displacement forced the designers of battleships to make compromises which they might have wished to avoid given the choice.

The French also had limited ammunition and forces (they were dying from the wars and diseases).

These talks would limit German forces as part of overall constraints on NATO's armies and air forces.

The treaty limiting conventional forces in Europe sets ceilings requiring the Soviets to scrap at least 7,500 tanks and 9,300 armored vehicles.

U.S. Africa Command has limited assigned forces and relies on the Department of Defense for resources necessary to support its missions.

Coaster designers generally try to limit centrifugal forces to 3.5 or 4 g's, except for a short spurt where they may go higher.

The plan does not resolve the key issue of a regional accord on limiting military forces.

But the prospects were dim, it was agreed, for achieving any breakthrough in the negotiations to limit conventional forces in Europe.

American officials havesaid the issue of limiting German forces should be deferred to a second round of conventional arms talks that would follow an initial agreement.

The Soviets will also want to limit nuclear forces.

With a majority of the Army's active-duty combat brigades already overseas, Pentagon planners have limited forces to draw upon.