Such exposures only cause acute illness or injury in occasional cases where some situational factor was "out of normal bounds".

The trouble is, normal bounds did not apply at Bagram, because the president had muddied the water with conflicting orders.

Though the boy was only fourteen and the girl twelve, the events of the past year had matured them beyond the normal bounds of childhood.

But his mind would not stay within its normal bounds.

Her temper is out of all normal bounds.

"If something were out of normal bounds, that would raise a flag," Waite said.

He said the Government had gone "beyond normal bounds" in the case.

"So the attempt to retrieve the asteroid was outside the normal bounds of your duties as you understood them, is that correct?"

At 14 months, she was walking, evidence that her muscular development was within normal bounds.