"kept within bounds" is a correct expression and can be used in written English.
It is used to mean to keep something within a reasonable limit. For example, "The mayor issued an order to keep public gatherings within bounds."
The budget deficit and money supply were kept within bounds and back taxes began to be collected.
But, so far, the demonstrations have been kept within bounds, and are not doing the Israelis much damage.
Thanks so so much... Best wishes, Kate Fleetwood A Leylandii can be a complete menace if not pruned and kept within bounds on an annual basis.
David Lodge has imagined some details and manufactured some correspondence, detailed in an acknowledgements section, but the novelistic element is kept within bounds.
I am unable to suggest any test by which an incidental search, if permissible at all, can in police practice be kept within bounds that are reasonable.
As part of the deal, the investors have structured the board so that Mr. Citron does not have control over it -- in part, Mr. Weller said, to make sure that Mr. Citron is kept within bounds.
Formidable self-belief For 24 years before becoming pope, Benedict was head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), the Vatican department (once known as the Inquisition) whose main task is to maintain doctrinal orthodoxy by ensuring that theologians licensed to teach in Catholic institutions keep within bounds set in Rome.
Therefore the growth of ivy on trees should be kept within reasonable bounds.
So far, despite many years of broken promises, the Eurosceptics have kept within the bounds of constitutional opposition.
Everyone who has thought seriously about the problem agrees that death must be made kinder, or at least kept within the bounds of its inherent cruelty.
The world will inevitably emerge from this process with some degree of extraneous and ill-advised legislation, but hopefully such mistakes can be kept within reasonable bounds.
