Nonetheless, we seem to be asked to accept that what continues to bind the two together is the distilled essence of love.
The operators feel caught in a bind, Mr. Gerolymatos said, being asked to pay more for spectrum when their businesses are weaker than usual.
He has invited tough questions to be asked with unprecedented frankness: how to bind the wounds of the divorced, while promoting indissolubility?
He's bound to be asked about his efforts to eliminate protections for wilderness areas in his state and his close ties to the mining and timber industries.
The question that is bound to be asked is why these big-name fighters have taken so long to appear on the dance list of a world champion who has reigned for so long and has just taken his first foray into an American ring.
If Carlyle - which, despite being only 15 years old, manages more than $14 billion in funds on behalf of investors such as George Soros and the Bin Laden family (who are estranged from their son Osama) - does take a stake in Hollinger, questions are bound to be asked over the links between the two firms, both of which have powerful links to the military.
Questions are bound to be asked whether he or the shadow chancellor Ed Balls knew about the McBride's methods.
Given history and investor inclinations, the question that is bound to be asked is this: Will Google have a halo like Microsoft's, benefiting the many other hopefuls in tech?
Whichever is the case, the board is bound to be asked at the inquiry - findings of which will be published by the Secretary of State for Wales, Mr Cledwyn Hughes - why its 1964 investigations did not reveal the spring.
He pointed out that he was bound to be asked by journalists covering his book what he thought about the firemen's industrial action, and that he could not in honesty say other than that he supported it.
