Given that the letter represents an interpretation of federal law by major federal agencies, most colleges will regard it as binding.
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 task-force said that it would treat its new rules as binding on all countries, not merely its 29 mostly rich members, and it laid down a bold deadline for compliance: the end of this month.
The other note of trouble is Mr. Obama's decision, also announced yesterday, to treat as legally binding part of a radical 1977 revision to the 1949 Geneva Conventions known as Article 75 of Additional Protocol 1.
These have been recognised by French law as legally binding since March this year.
It is treating Article 75 of Protocol 1 as legally binding, though it has not been ratified by the Senate.
Nora Ephron, who wrote and directed, is interested less in food as something to cook than as the binding and unifying element in marriage, dinner parties, and friendship.
It is made from a blend of crushed rock, rubber and polyurethane, a synthetic plastic that replaces bitumen as the binding agent and allows even bigger pores in the road surface.
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The larger economic case is that while of course I agree that there is a real constraint on economic growth from resource depletion, I think that that as a binding constraint is a lot further away than many seem to realise.
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"The film makers have agreed to pay 2.5m rupees as compensation, " Muthulakshmi's lawyer Sanjay Hegde told the BBC, describing it as a "binding agreement".
The second referendum would allow them to have a say on the UK's continued membership of the EU - Mr Bone described it as a "binding in-out referendum".
Since the Pledge is a prerequisite for many voters, it is considered binding as long as an individual holds the office for which he or she signed the Pledge.
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Documents signed with DocuSign are legally binding as specified by the U.S. Electronic Signature In Global and National Commerce Act (ESIGN) and the U.S. Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA).
It did not win backing for new anti-proliferation obligations, such as a legally binding test ban or for an end to the further production of fissile uranium or plutonium for bombs.
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The British hope that because the charter is likely to be adopted as a political declaration only, not as a legally binding text, it will not cause too much of a fuss.
While Mr Obama signed the bill he said he reserved the right to treat the provisions as non-binding, angering some hawks on Capitol Hill who questioned his commitment to increasing pressure on Iran, says BBC Persian's Mohammad Manzarpour, in Washington.
The proponents of the protocol praise it as a "legally binding" treaty.
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Earnings releases come to mind as they contain legally binding statements.
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The lignin acts as a glue, binding the cellulose fibres together, so an enormous amount of chemical and mechanical effort has to be expended on removing it.
The government will amend company law so that shareholder votes on big businesses' prospective remuneration plans for executives will be binding - as opposed to the current system of advisory votes (which have the power to embarrass companies but not to compel them).
The bottom line is whether a 12.5% reduction in binding is meaningful as an indicator for abstinence or reduction.
As part of the legally binding agreement, retailers would be liable when there's a factory fire and would have to pay factory owners more to make repairs.
Of those that work, some may owe their success to a powerful, binding ideology (as in the United States), backed by laws, history and, sometimes, a single language.
The Qataris had reason for pleasure: the money did not go, as originally intended, on binding together the Israeli and Arab economies, but, largely, on developing Qatar's own oil and gas industry.
Researchers can only use dead cells or pieces of a cell and can only test for one response at a time, such as enzyme activity or the binding of a compound to a receptor.
Recently, however, Carlos Bustamante, a biophysicist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Oregon, in Eugene, and his colleagues there and at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have found a way to observe proteins as they search for their binding sites.
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We must keep up the momentum towards achieving a binding global climate agreement as soon as possible.
It also fits neatly with his strategy for achieving that by binding interest groups such as lawyers to his cause.
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Here, it was undisputed that Wilder signed an Employee Agreement with Fidelity that contained legally binding non-solicitation as well as confidentiality clauses.
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But the compromise language waters down earlier congressional demands that would have required a set of binding benchmarks for progress as a condition for continued funding.
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