fix a limit
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As well fix a limit of ninety hours!
From The Iron Furrow by Botkin, Henry A.
If it is a labour to us, who will fix a limit to another person's industry?
From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Yonge, Charles Duke
Lord Kitchener: If you could fix a limit it would clear up the matter.
From The peace negotiations between the governments of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, and the representatives of the British government, which terminated in the peace concluded at Vereeniging on the 31st May, 1902 by Velden, D. E. van
It might be advisable to fix a limit beyond which no citizen of the United States residing abroad may claim the interposition of his government.
From The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 7: 1863-1865 by Lincoln, Abraham
Ander's voice still failed him and did not improve, and no doctor was prepared to fix a limit to his malady.
From My Life — Volume 2 by Wagner, Richard