In short, at the outside limit, we are convinced the men will be keen to talk surrender within the week.
"These are the outside limits," the Delian said, after a while.
I have carried it to outside limit of present endurance.
The loss of this week would take the two sides to the outside limit still without an agreement.
'That's your outside limit for the day,' he'd told her.
For the average gunner, 50 yards is the outside limit and 40 would be better.
Four and a half hours would be the outside limit.
But the problem with the shuttle is not the outside limit, but *finding* the thing in the sky.
In winter the outside limits were fixed by the length of daylight.
And it puts an outside limit of five years on how long any family, however desperate, can get help.