Whether we can do so may turn on whether the binding constraint comes from regulation or from the market.

BBC: The Bank's push to ease credit

The government has explicitly ruled out buying credits in the carbon market from abroad, which is the only way to meet Canada's legally binding commitments under the Kyoto protocol if it fails to meet its targets.

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Buyers and suppliers who have no binding relationship, by contrast, and who stick to standard legal tenders without reference to current difficult market conditions, could find themselves in a new realm of uncharted territory with little trust.

WSJ: United They'll Stand

If you liked the trial, you'll love the judge's greatest-hits collection of Microsoft skullduggery: binding its Internet Explorer browser into Windows just to beat out Netscape, bullying Intel into staying out of the software market, polluting Sun Microsystems' Java programming language to diminish the competitive threat it posed to Windows, threatening IBM.

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