In some cultures, personal bonds and informal agreements are far more binding than any formal contract.
My response is that, A, that's why I think we should still drive towards something that is more binding than it is.
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"We would have preferred in particular that this text set more binding and shorter deadlines for the transfer of responsibilities and the political transition, " Mr de Villepin said on the sidelines of an EU summit in Brussels.
The treaty is not legally binding, and does not come into effect until January 2015, but Ambassador Terry Kramer, who headed the U.S. delegation Dubai, said it was important to make sure that countries did not eventually agree to a more binding set of global agreements that they could use to justify acts of censorship online.
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At the time these laws were being debated, there were plenty of voices arguing they were unnecessary - more red tape binding business from the "right-on brigade".
But the justices kept straying into the merits of the case and the quality of the evidence presented by both sides, because that is critical to determining whether there is a central issue binding more than 1 million women.
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To paraphrase the English wit, Samuel Johnson, who described second marriages as "the triumph of hope over experience, " it was absolutely predictable that prohibitions imposed by the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention and the 1989 Chemical Weapons Convention would be no more successful in creating universally binding international "norms" than was the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, which was supposed to ban all war.
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Mr Assad, whose forces' killing of 50 protesters overshadowed Mr Annan's announcement, is unlikely to pay more than lip service to any binding calls for him to back off.
The 1979 Scottish poll was binding provided the vote carried with more than 40% of the electorate voting yes.
Globalisation is binding America's economy ever more tightly into those of other countries.
Such therapy includes strengthening the remaining limb and a process called "limb shaping, " in which binding materials are used to create more cylindrical stumps that fit into prosthetics.
For a genome of a given size, a binding site will have to be much more conspicuous if it is alone than if it is one of many.
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Comcast may have to agree to refer disputes over the price it pays to carry rivals' content, which are expected to become more common in the next few years, to binding arbitration.
It ended in a compromise: there will be more referendums, but they will be consultative, not binding.
Making that question yet more vexed, the Israeli government is considering a non-binding referendum on America's proposal for a small, staged withdrawal from the West Bank.
In today's more affluent and secure Israel, Zionism is no longer such a strong binding force.
Tomorrow, the U.S. Senate is expected to take up a non-binding resolution opposing the Bush administration's plan to send more troops into Iraq.
Investors expect a new pact will include measures to curb excessive debt by making budget discipline legally binding, which could persuade the European Central Bank to take more action to halt the selloff in debt markets.
The recommendations of the IFHA, which has more than 60 member authorities from around the world, aren't binding on its members as each national authority sets its own rules based on the international body's recommendations in the International Agreement on Breeding, Racing and Wagering.
We should improve the current system of binding corporate rules to make these types of exchanges less burdensome and more secure.
The more Belarus trades with the rich industrialised world, the weaker will become the ties binding it to Russia.
If approved, countries would have committed to binding agreements to reduce CO2 emissions to keep the planet from heating by more than 2 degrees Celsius.
Regional development agencies, binding neighbours together into administrative units, are another incentive to think a little more widely.
Tonight's vote is not binding on delegates to that convention, so this isn't really any more than a glorified opinion poll.
With the Senate set to debate non-binding resolutions next week to protest President Bush's decision to send thousands more troops to Iraq, some senators want to go further.
The UK is also introducing reforms to give shareholders a binding vote on pay in October, as well as measures to make remuneration packages more transparent.
Thus the English ruling is binding on all EU courts: at least unless and until it is appealed up to the more senior courts.
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But much more is needed than the fragile discipline imposed by the Maastricht treaty and by the stability pact, such as binding constraints on budget laws of member states and institutions able to enforce them.
The age-old argument of whether a ticket to a sporting event is a legal and binding contract was brought to the fore again Tuesday when Matt Morgan, an attorney for three of the more than 30 fans injured when debris went into the stands at Daytona Saturday, spoke about a possible lawsuit.
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