It is an absolute ceiling on global GDP, for at least the next 20 years.
From the guardian.co.uk
That was the absolute ceiling for this year's A's team.
From the sfgate.com
The White House says the plans to deploy 98,000 troops in Afghanistan do not represent an absolute ceiling, but few expect Obama to approve any large escalation beyond that number.
From the charlotteobserver.com
To tackle what they perceived to be an inequitable and unsustainable system, the NBA first proposed an absolute payroll ceiling for every team, modeled after the NFL's.
From the stltoday.com
Any ceiling effectively puts an absolute limit on global emissions over the coming century, and the tricky part will be deciding who is entitled to make those emissions.
From the newscientist.com
We only suspect the possibility of the ceiling effect of correlation coefficient, but it was also small at larger absolute values of time delay.