Intellectual security only comes when you have tested the outer bounds of your belief system.
In March, however, all 18 deviated, and 16 were at the outer bounds of price ranges.
But last week, signs emerged in Moscow and Washington that these approaches are just the outer bounds of a broader debate.
A law or court decision that officially permitted torture would tempt the executive to test its outer bounds "because presidents want to expand their power".
Other Republicans sounded more optimistic, suggesting that the proposal defined the outer bounds for negotiations, which could now begin in earnest.
The Obama administration and judges have been wrestling with legal questions about the outer bounds of the government's power to detain terrorism suspects.
These and the other factors that I have discussed, along with the questions that I have asked along the way, should help to identify "gross disproportionality" in a fairly objective way at the outer bounds of sentencing.
At the Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, Calif., for instance -- one of a new generation of ultramodern, ultraexpensive "supermaxes" -- the conditions "press the outer bounds of what most humans can psychologically tolerate," as one judge put it.
We now provide two outer bounds for fixed and.
Although this problem is non-convex, the tight inner and outer bounds can be efficiently computed.
We now develop inner and outer bounds for the Gaussian orthogonal relay eavesdropper channel.
