The ruling is non-binding; it does not have legal force.

VOA: special.2010.07.24

They make laws but the laws are not binding on anyone, they're just suggested laws or regulations.

他们编制法规,但是却没有强制意义,他们只是对法规或者监管进行建议

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

His letter was not binding on anybody else, except the churches in his Alexandrian diocese.

他的书信对其他人都没有约束作用，除了他在亚历山大教区的教会。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

It is the only developed country not to have ratified the Kyoto Protocol and is still resisting a legally binding international deal.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

So, now you have a single molecule, very large molecule, with not just two binding sites but with ten binding sites.

所以如果你体内有一个细胞,一个体积很大的细胞,细胞表面不只有两个抗原结合位点,而有十个抗原结合位点

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The opinion is not legally binding. Borges says there could be opposition from those who say granting so much territory to indigenous peoples is inhibiting the country's development.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

I don't have to go read what it printed out in the screen. This has returned a value that I can use. Because I could do a test to say, is this a return value? If it's not, I'll do something else with it. So the binding is still there, it simply doesn't print it out.

我不想读到屏幕中打印出来的这行字,程序返回过一个我能够使用的值,因为我可以做个小测试，来说明这是否是返回的值，如果不是，我可以做一些其它的事,而这个绑定依然在这儿，没有打印任何东西。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

The Clinton visit was not without discord, with India saying flatly Sunday it intends to stand firm against western demands that it accept binding limitations on the growth of its greenhouse gas emissions.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

Some people want to have these to be many and for them to be very binding, others want them to be very few and not very binding, and that's an argument one can get into.

有些人认为惯例更多一些,更有约束力一些,而有些人却认为惯例的限制少一些,这是争论所在

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The Copenhagen conference was to come up with a binding agreement to succeed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol which mandated emissions cuts, but was not signed by some of the world's biggest polluters, including the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

"What we hear is that the kind of legally binding agreement that we,for instance, did inside the European Union, will probably not be possible since some of the countries like the United States say we do not have the support in our congress to make a ratification on an international agreement,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.06