According to a report on contingent elections by the Congressional Research Service, the procedures undertaken for that 1825 vote -- the House met in closed session without reporters, for instance, and voted anonymously by paper ballot -- would be "precedential, but not binding" for similar elections in the future.
It was approved by MPs without a vote but it is not binding on ministers.
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"It's not binding, but it's certainly an authoritative view of what European law requires, " he said.
Mr Lowther has written to the children's parents excluding them but the move is not legally binding and the pupils could return on Thursday.
The amendments are not-binding but still symbolically significant.
Its recommendations are not binding, but if Mr Annan does not act on them by Monday, Mr Stephanides has the option of taking his case to a higher internal body whose rulings must be obeyed.
It ended in a compromise: there will be more referendums, but they will be consultative, not binding.
So these are not terribly different approaches, but the binding effort, the binding essence is going to be the sticking point, I think, in negotiations between the House and Senate.
Moreover, all the main support measures undertaken in Central and Eastern Europe, like the Vienna Initiative, for instance, were not legally binding agreements, but based on voluntary participation within a multilateral framework.
One week prior to the summit, Jairam Ramesh, member and minister of state for environment and forests, told India's Parliament that the country should plan to reduce the ratio of pollution to production by 20% to 25% compared with 2005 levels, but like China, not accept a legally binding emissions reduction target.
It will not be legally binding, but what it will do is allow for each country to show to the world what they're doing, and there will be a sense on the part of each country that we're in this together, and we'll know who is meeting and who's not meeting the mutual obligations that have been set forth.
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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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These votes are not binding on the FDA, but the committees have the feel of jury trials.
The FTC decision is technically not binding for other businesses, but it is likely to be used to set some new rules of the road for the licensing of standard essential patents across the technology sector as well as in other industries.
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But Netanyahu's call for their resignations is not binding, and there was no immediate indication from any of the ministers that they would follow through.
The Green Guides do not constitute binding rules or regulations, but FTC will expect marketers to utilize them when designing advertisements, and will undoubtedly refer to them when bringing enforcement actions under Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act.
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That is not binding on the Dutch, of course, but it may affect their decision.
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But Ferrari chief Luca di Montezemolo says his position is "not binding".
But that was not enough for the Kremlin, which wanted a legally binding document.
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But then you're saying at home that it's not a binding commitment.
It is not legally binding and requires no financial commitment at this stage, but a formal and legally binding agreement will be made as the partnership progresses.
The manner in which that cooperation is undertaken will be determined by the president in conjunction with the government of Iraq, but it does not constitute a security commitment that rises to the level of a legally binding assurance which would, of course, have to be submitted to the Senate.
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.
After the non-binding vote, Leung made it clear she found the whole process not only distasteful, but a waste of her time.
The nuclear powers have long said they will not use their weapons against non-nuclear opponents, but they have refused to make it a legally binding promise.
Objections raised by the panel - the Government Advisory Committee (Gac) - will not be binding on net address regulator Icann (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), but the organisation must produce "well reasoned arguments" if it decides to deny any request.
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But why not take liberalism as the default, and see conservatism as a deviation from the default that tunes up the binding dimensions?
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