10 sentences with 'limited'
Example sentences and phrases with the word limited and other words derived from it.
• « Although no more pyramids were built - it seems that the almost obsessive focus on the spirit of the king after death was limited to the Old Kingdom - the Middle Kingdom was definitely a period of stability and prosperity for Egypt as a whole. »
• « The use of bronze was very limited in Egypt until the Second Intermediate Period, as both weapons and tools were made of copper or stone. »
• « Ancient Egyptian commercial contact was not limited to the kingdom of Nubia, of course... Although the Egyptians considered themselves superior to other cultures and civilisations, they actively traded not only with Nubia but with the various civilisations and peoples of the Near and Middle East. »
• « In time, citizenship was limited to men who had undergone the arduous military training for which the Spartans are best remembered. »
• « However, consular authority was limited by the fact that terms were only one year and each consul was expected to keep the other in check if necessary. »
• « Even freed slaves, called freedmen, had limited legal rights and had formal obligations to serve their former masters as clients. »
• « According to Roman sources, the power of the ruling dynasty was limited both by court intrigue and by the frequency of invasions from the steppes (the usual problem of the settled dynasties of Mesopotamia and Persia going back to the very origins of civilisation). »
• « Thus, on the whole, social mobility was so limited as to be almost non-existent (to cite just one example, a member of the Empire's elite class could have an annual income 17,000 times higher than that of a poor labourer). »
• « So, at a time when the speed at which a message could travel was limited by the speed at which a messenger could travel on horseback, the machinery of Roman government ground to a halt whenever the last emperor was weeks or even months away from Rome. »