Adjective : a self-limiting authority.    From Dictionary.com. 

The illness may be mild and self-limiting or severe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 2] Reference

The formation of secretin is thus a self-limiting process.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

Satiric fantasy is apt to be self-limiting, even at its best.    From Wordnik.com.  [Them and Us] Reference

Hall knows Web celebrity is a tricky, often self-limiting thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [So, Tron Guy, Gem Sweater Lady, and the Firefox Walk Into a Bar ...] Reference

He did not tense; that would have been dangerously self-limiting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Game Of Empire]

The ability of the partisan media to shape events is self-limiting.    From Wordnik.com.  [V-AP Day] Reference

In such soil the intake of water during irrigation is self-limiting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

Do you have self-limiting beliefs from your childhood like I used to?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michelle Renee: Want Success? Change Your Attitude and Be Shameless!] Reference

But antihero shows are different in that they are inherently self-limiting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Too Much Of a Bad Thing] Reference

What about acute, self-limiting conditions: bronchitis; Bell's Palsy; UTIs?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctors, Patients and Fools] Reference

If the recent drop is primarily financial, it could well prove self-limiting.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Weather This Storm, Airlines] Reference

Are you creating self-limiting beliefs for the things you most want out of life?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Srinivasan Pillay: Methods Man: How Do You Become What You Want?] Reference

Outbreaks were generally self-limiting after one or two sequential transmissions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 2] Reference

What drives these self-limiting career decisions concerning schools and upgrades?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Testimony To the US House National Security Committee] Reference

However, I suspect that the broadening will prove self-limiting--"self" being jazz itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Larry Niven and... Ambiguity?] Reference

The imprudent in recent years grew so numerous that their behavior has proved self-limiting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Americanus Prudens: In Search of an Endangered Species] Reference

"Iran's influence is self-limiting," said Joost Hiltermann of the International Crisis Group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iran's ice cream challenge to America] Reference

In effect, the expansion induces traffic until a “self-limiting equilibrium” is achieved.    From Wordnik.com.  [04 « March « 2009 « Stephen Rees's blog] Reference

Such spells are always self-limiting; there will be no more than a fortnight before it reverts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Falcon Street] Reference

Balance between worlds was thus only enhanced, and so they believed that evil was self-limiting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soul of the Fire]

I find it interesting that people of faith only tend to pray for conditions that are self-limiting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The God Debate] Reference

Blue Dog Democrats, self-limiting to 47 members in the current Congress, are winning heavily in PAC money.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: ��Blue Dogs' Become Fundraising Powerhouse] Reference

Does this mean that a government can be "self-limiting," or is there some way of avoiding this implication?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Constitutionalism] Reference

In such cases, the disease is self-limiting, and even contributes to building up the immune system of a child.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa: Time to Care for Our Ailing Nation] Reference

To prevent the potential excesses of egotistic self-propagation, survival is self-limiting and self-regulating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Live and Let Live, Nature's Message] Reference

We've got to let go of all those negative, self-limiting beliefs that leech us of vital, vibrant health and energy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Cara Barker: Beginning Anew: How To Find A New Direction] Reference

First, you have women's own self-limiting views of themselves, their businesses and the opportunities available to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Are Women-Owned Firms Smaller Than Men-Owned Ones?] Reference

Salamander fire bums anything and everything, which regular fire doesn't, but it is also one-way, so it is self-limiting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragon on a Pedestal]

The conversation has started and will not stop until self-limiting stereotypes are replaced by empowerment and self-esteem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stephanie Sobel: Fashion Democracy] Reference

The other forms, generally, are self-limiting, don't have a fever, present slightly differently with the pain distribution.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 6, 2005] Reference

In Atlanta, Dr. Kennedy says most of the wells don't yield more than a modest 15 gallons a minute -- making them self-limiting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where There's a Will,] Reference

However, according to Dr. Steve Van Wie, Homeland Security Veterinarian, in wildlife, such as deer, the disease is self-limiting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Statement to Vilsack against NAIS by the National Independent Consumer and Farmers Association] Reference

True, all except a minute fraction of one percent of the multitudes of small, tame, self-limiting vortices were perfect servants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Masters Of The Vortex]

Is there some sort of self-limiting process going on, whereby repubs "police" themselves and bully people into supporting mcShame?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: Debates Improved Opinions Of Obama Among Independents And Conservatives] Reference

"First, you have women's own self-limiting views of themselves, their businesses and the opportunities available to them," she writes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women Entrepreneurs: Close The Gender Gap And Dream Big] Reference

As a consequence, the success of the current design and configuration of our forces may ironically become self-limiting and constraining.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shock and Awe — Achieving Rapid Dominance] Reference