Sentence examples similar to overstepped acceptable bounds from inspiring English sources

By employing Holocaust imagery to address an insult to somebody who identified himself as a Jew, the mayor overstepped the bounds of acceptable behaviour for an elected official.

The noble, if controversial, doctrine of R2P rests on the notion that national sovereignty ceases to matter when a nation has so overstepped the bounds of acceptable behaviour towards its own civilian population that outside intervention is justified.

Or he may have overstepped his bounds.

Eventually, the agency overstepped its bounds.

"The federal government has overstepped its bounds".

Immigration-rights advocates say the agency overstepped its bounds.

"I just think they overstepped their bounds," Mr. Grimes said.

"I feel the court overstepped its bounds," Mr. Bush said.

He said he would support the return of the Taliban if NATO troops overstepped their bounds.

In 2002, it ruled that the Department of Justice had overstepped its bounds, giving prosecutors too much authority.

"Mitt Romney has been forced to say, 'Look, I overstepped my bounds here.