"bounds of acceptability" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to the limits or restrictions that are considered reasonable or acceptable within a particular context. For example, "We must observe the bounds of acceptability when creating and implementing new policies."
And the other flavors that cherry cola Oreos are competing against are within the bounds of acceptability.
But society has far less tolerance of that kind of language, and people have become much more aware of when the bounds of acceptability are crossed.
The BBC's editorial complaints unit intervened following a complaint from a viewer who said the joke had exceeded the bounds of acceptability.
The refreshing aspect of the success of this campaign was that a grassroots movement started in the community, rallied widespread support including academics, artists and politicians, and took control of deciding what constitutes racism and the bounds of acceptability.
Nor did one of the show's two regular team captains, Lee Mack, who told Deayton: "I am sorry but that is well out of order". The BBC's editorial complaints unit intervened following a complaint from a viewer who said the joke had exceeded the bounds of acceptability.
I think it would have been seen as quite rude, but within the bounds of acceptability," says Baynton-Williams.
As an exploration of evil - and Cribben is sadistic almost beyond the bounds of literary acceptability - this is a powerfully disturbing read, though at times gratuitously horrible.
In the earliest works on view, she experimented with LSD-inspired figuration and systems-based art, but her performances of 1970 marked a turning point, as she began testing the bounds of social acceptability by riding public transport in clothes reeking of vinegar, for example, or with a towel stuffed in her mouth.
21 Our results show that both the base case ICER and the related extremes of Monte Carlo 95% CI fall below the bounds of the acceptability range per QALY gained (€25,000 €40,000), which was recently proposed by an AIES working group.
In our study, it is worth noting that the probability of wrongly recommending nab-paclitaxel steeply decreases from 0.04 to 0.01, moving along the bounds of the acceptability range for ICER proposed by AIES.
In both cases, some other bounds on the acceptability of candidate axioms must be provided.
