severe limitation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsevereandlimitation
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severe
adjective
uk/sɪˈvɪər/us/səˈvɪr/
causing very great pain, difficulty, worry, damage, etc.; ...
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limitation
noun
uk/ˌlɪm.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/us/ˌlɪm.əˈteɪ.ʃən/
the act of controlling and especially ...
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(Definition ofsevereandlimitationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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We stress that in practice this is not aseverelimitation.
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However, it suffers from two structural flaws that pose aseverelimitationto its performance.
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Perhaps the mostseverelimitationof the concept of entrepreneurship in politics is its individualism.
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It is aseverelimitation.
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This imposes aseverelimitation, because most useful global constraints are neither expressed nor easily expressible in inequality form.
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However, the technique is even more complicated than the traditional pronuclear microinjection, which is aseverelimitation.
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The separation between environment and individual in the formation of cognitive structures is arguably aseverelimitationin cognitive approaches.
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First, without aseverelimitationof the use of recursion, no precise cost could be evaluated in general.
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The restriction to one spatial dimension represents aseverelimitationof the present treatment for two reasons.
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It provides for theseverelimitationof profits.
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We have imposed aseverelimitationon our production programmes.
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That is a quiteseverelimitationon what happens now.
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The problem of low power is aseverelimitationfor many of the follow-up studies currently under way throughout the world.
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At present, this system only supports textual, and not graphical, representations of ideas, a feature seen as aseverelimitationby some in the workshop audience.
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The majority of the study group had moderate limitation of exercise tolerance (mean maximal exercise time 7.1 minutes) with three patients havingseverelimitationof exercise.
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These needs may involve for a time equallyseverelimitationof supplies.
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We are in an era ofseverelimitationon local authority expenditure.
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Moreover, aseverelimitationhas been placed upon what it can do.
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I refer to theseverelimitationon any system other than the battery system.
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Clearly, it is highly appropriate that there should be aseverelimitationon comments where jury actions are concerned.
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Another factor is theseverelimitationon the growth of public expenditure and its effect on public service employment.
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When you apply that to some of the other offices, we would object to such aseverelimitation.
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Although this approximation looks like aseverelimitationof the theory, (12) may still hold good for most practical applications, and may provide the essential physical properties that we seek.
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Thisseverelimitationof our national resources means that we cannot expand our industries unless we start with a big expansion of imported materials.
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Have they accepted this decision to encourage these professional people while putting aseverelimitation on the number of unskilled persons who may come here?
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