Sentence examples for a power to bind from inspiring English sources

The common law as administered by her judges ascribes to the decisions of her highest court a power to bind and loose that is unextinguished, for intermediate transactions, by a decision overruling them.

Consent is saved from irrelevance only if we can explain why we also value a power to bind ourselves to obey.

Marriage has a "special power" to bind people into communities and into other families, Rauch thinks.

Now in the hands of these theorists and in much ordinary discourse the idea of "consent" implies a normative power to bind oneself.

The justices also questioned whether an arbitrator had the power to bind thousands of absent class members, each of whom had signed their own arbitration agreements, to a class action when they might not want to belong to one.

Conference participants said there was no doubt that all countries had agreed to cut diplomatic ties but that there was a time lapse permitted because the ministers did not have the legal power to bind their governments.

Moreover, it was exhilarating for an Australian kid from a plain suburb to look forward to being entrusted by Christ with the power to "bind and loose" sins.

Territorial jurisdiction is the court's power to bind the parties to the action.

The court did not hold that Congress "lacked the power to bind state governments to the federal law barring age discrimination".

You can directly negotiate such choices or invite groups to select representatives who may or may not have the power to bind their constituents.

In the Gospel According to Matthew (16:18 18, 18:18) the power to "bind and loose" was conferred on St. Peter and the other Apostles.