set bounds to

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Any institution or organization, any cult or system which tries to bind the restless spirit of man, to set bounds to his curious searchings, to deny the report of his reason, cannot last.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had tried to codify the evil uses of might by individuals, so that he might set bounds to them by the impersonal justice of the state.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

What then is the use of saying, I should have nothing to reproach them with if they only set bounds to their appetites?

From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Yonge, Charles Duke

Secondly, Want of power to set bounds to space, to limit duration and annihilate matter.

From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880 by Walker, Aaron

Her husband returned, and it now became necessary to set bounds to her own insolence, and, what was far more difficult, to that of Isabel.

From The Lamplighter by Cummins, Maria S.