Alistair Darling, the former chancellor who had cut VAT to 15% on a temporary basis at the height of the recession between late 2008 and January 2010, had said it would be wrong to bind his hands.
Since those elected would be better informed and wiser on specific issues that those who elected them, it would be wrong to bind the representatives to anything but a very general agreement with the beliefs and the aims of the electors.
How, or whether, John F. Kennedy's character and personal life affected his policymaking is a legitimate subject for interpretation, and a storyteller is free to be wrong — probably bound to be wrong — in the effort to get at some kind of truth or insight.
Vidal's view of the world was the opposite of supple, and someone who says, "It always comes down to money," is bound to be wrong at least some of the time.
"People phone me up a week ahead and want to know what the weather'll be," Mike said, "but whatever anyone says, they're bound to be wrong".
As Osborne prepares to deliver what is in effect his third Budget of this year (one, jointly with the Liberal Democrats, before the election, one afterwards and now another to correct the mistakes of the first two), we should bear in mind that his predictions for the next five years are still bound to be wrong.
And he concedes that the Bank's estimate of the output gap and the rate at which it will close are bound to be wrong.
"All we can ever do is look at the past to predict the future," writes Leon Levy in his fine new memoir, The Mind of Wall Street, "but life is dynamic and constantly changing, so the assumptions governing predictions are bound to be wrong".
Any observation that suggests we know what all Christians, Jews, and Muslims think or believe is bound to be wrong.
If we disagree on an issue, we're bound to be wrong on at least part of the issue.
A man with so many opinions is bound, pretty often, to be wrong, but Mr. Gould could be just as entertaining when he was wrong as when he was right.
