How to Use go no further in a Sentence

go no further

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  • If the answer to that question is yes, the Fifth Circuit was right to go no further.
    Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 17 May 2021
  • Most go no further than that, but some have been known to even sleep, though that’s pretty rare.
    Brad Templeton, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
  • But Fickell’s message to his team can go no further than the final scores in the last three meetings with the Owls (3-2).
    Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The new rule concludes a broader overhaul campaign that began in mid-2018 but will go no further for now.
    Sean Reilly, Science | AAAS, 9 Dec. 2020
  • When the boy reached a white fence between two houses in the neighborhood and could go no further, the man allegedly shot him, Penn Live reports.
    Kc Baker, PEOPLE.com, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Satire could go no further in the direction of art without ceasing to be comic at all—and yet her pieces remain, at heart, sweetly, winsomely flirtatious.
    Adam Gopnik, WSJ, 16 July 2021
  • But commentators now suggest that easing may go no further.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Saul’s qualifications for the job seemed to go no further than his experience as an executive at a couple of women’s garment firms and as a fundraiser for George W. Bush’s 2004 presidential campaign.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2021
  • The landscape of high-capacity magazine bans reflects a general trend of state-level measures that strengthen ammunition laws in a small group of mostly blue states, while the remainder of states go no further than federal law, Charles said.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 1 June 2022
  • Zelenskyy cautiously welcomed Beijing’s involvement but the overture appeared to go no further.
    Karl Ritter, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2023

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