The size of the town - which itself is very small - ensures that the festival will not grow beyond certain bounds.

"Diplomatic action has certain bounds beyond which it cannot proceed," he wrote.

As long as his behaviour is within certain bounds, a student's love affairs are not my concern.

Fred will do anything within certain bounds to achieve it.

The "certain bounds" that "hold against chaos" enable the poem's narrator to return to this particular place.

"There are certain bounds of decency, and you had no license to insult anybody."

When the parameters are known only within certain bounds, one approach to tackling such problems is called robust optimization.

It practically guaranteed your business would not be interrupted within certain bounds.

To begin with, however, such expansion necessarily had to be kept within certain bounds.

"Kept within certain bounds, it doesn't become a one-shot - would that be a fair way of responding?"