But, freed from a dominant style, design is faced with the style trap: the limits imposed by glamour.
An electronic limit usually imposed in cameras to avoid overly bright or dark signals.
Increasingly, he said, "the limits impose a lot of evasive efforts."
That limit imposes a speed limit on the chip.
Usually a limit to the punishment that the court can impose.
Every publishing company that had printed it was closed and sealed, diocesan newspapers were proscribed, and limits imposed on the paper available for Church purposes.
The capping limits, unfair and arbitrary as they are, are again imposing a straight jacket.
From recent data, it became clear that these limits would impose requirements beyond the scope of what is reasonably achievable, without benefit to public health.
Starting next year, speaking fees for House members and aides will be banned and a limit imposed on outside earnings, excluding investments, of 15 percent of their salaries.
The technical limits of weight-bearing masonry had always imposed formal as well as structural constraints; those constraints were suddenly gone.