11.   The agency agrees, but its policy is to limit the extent of protection that companies may receive.

12.   The Barings collapse produced considerable relief among regulators that close international cooperation had limited the extent of the damage.

13.   The regulator limited the extent to which brokerages can buy shares without owning them.

14.   This limited the extent to which the dollar was able to draw strength from the report, analysts said.

15.   Worse, their new proposed standard elevating the stature of cost would limit the extent to which the government could curtail or eliminate a practice that threatens public health.

16.   Dror said only budgetary restrictions have limited the extent of the projects.

17.   The measures would have also scaled back rent breaks and other benefits for veterans, limiting the extent to which their families could use them.

18.   Late buying in futures prices helped to limit the extent of the decline, brokers said.