Sentence examples for be made binding from inspiring English sources

Business Secretary Vince Cable has suggested that shareholder votes on pay, now advisory, be made binding.

Perhaps the vote, on both sides of the Atlantic, should be made binding.

European firms will also be required to self-monitor their methane emissions under proposed new EU guidelines, which could be made binding in 2015.

Hayes suggested the government was looking to see if the voluntary agreement announced in April with energy firms should be made binding in legislation.

Most famously, tobacco was used in the calumet ritual, when agreements and obligations would be made binding with the passing of the ritual pipe (the calumet, or sacred pipe).

Mohamed ElBaradei, the director general of the I.A.E.A., praised the E.U.'s security standards in November, before he stepped down from that job, and he said they should be made binding on all other nations.

A turning point came in the United States when the California Fair Trade Act of 1931 was amended in 1933 to include a so-called nonsigners' clause, whereby prices agreed upon by a manufacturer and contracting dealers were made binding upon all resellers.

The Minor Rogations were first introduced in Gaul by St. Mamertus of Vienne about the year 470 and were made binding for all of Gaul by the first Council of Orléans (511).

He passed a law (the Lex Hortensia) whereby the resolutions of the plebeians (plebiscites) were made binding on all the citizens without requiring the approval of the Senate and so were equivalent to measures passed by the other assemblies.

In the criminal law field, the court adopted Black's view that the Bill of Rights was made binding on the state after the Civil War with the 14th Amendment.

The guarantees for non-eurozone countries are to be made legally binding, meaning it would be more time consuming to get money from this fund at short notice.