Creative limitation is the practice of purposely limiting oneself to the ends of achieving a novel effect or goal that is not otherwise possible using conventional, readily accessible, methods.

For example, some doctors are purposely limiting the number of their Medicare patients.

Since he knew that he was designing the show for television, he purposely limited the design to a certain degree, designing the nose and mouth, for instance, in a Hanna-Barbera style to animate easily.

Furthermore, political opponents of Torrijos argued that the government purposely limited the information available on the treaties and then asked the people to vote "yes" or "no," in a plebiscite that the opposition maintained was conducted fraudulently.

The most powerful of spell-casters can turn entire cliffs in magma and make storms that rain so hard men can't stand up and therefore the spell-casters purposely limit themselves.

Historians have long known that the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans purposely limited the sizes of their populations.

This is when they purposely limit certain answers and suggest others.

But the United States is purposely limiting its requests for basing rights there, and Mr. Rumsfeld's Middle East itinerary notably excludes Islamabad, lest a stop there be seen as provocative.

The government is purposely limiting the local population for the sake of the Godwits.

If organisms purposely limit their life spans via ageing or semelparous behaviour, the associated evolved mechanisms could be very complex just as mechanisms that provide for mentation, vision, digestion, or other biological function are typically very complex.