Sentences with phrase «bounds of acceptable behavior»

The emerging global information infrastructure (GII) was a new and exciting environment full of promise and opportunity for research, education, commerce, entertainment, social change, and democratic governance, but where laws and ethical standards remained unwritten, and where individuals and institutions are still testing the bounds of acceptable behavior.

Back in Sparta, when adolescent boys strayed beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior, older men nudged them back into line.