Sentence examples for binding himself from inspiring English sources

Abraham bound Isaac once so that Isaac would go on binding himself forever.

By defining the election as a referendum on the Tories, Ken breaks with his past in binding himself closely to Labour, which as a party has been doing far better in opinion polls of Londoners than Ken himself has.

Governments in turn sought to lock themselves into Europe so as to prevent backsliding; it was like Ulysses binding himself to the mast in order to resist the siren songs of illiberal and anti-democratic demagogues in the future.

In Harlan's words the Hazara prince 'transferred his principality to me in feudal service, binding himself and his tribe to pay tribute forever.' " The Hazaras were probably unaware they would be expected to muster beneath Old Glory.

Elster rightly insists that an individual's binding of himself is a very different kind of "pre-commitment" from lawmakers' binding of others — as different as resolution and coercion.

Rembrandt soon found himself binding over nine paintings (as well as two albums of etchings) to the loan shark, for which he would get nothing but temporary relief on back debts.

The notions of justice and of good, as conceived by humans, are binding even on God himself.

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who considers himself a binding figure between Sunnis and Shiites, called the event "bitter and sad," and blamed foreign intelligence agencies for the destruction of the shrine.

Most people here had long ago stopped thinking about Wichita's serial killer of the 1970's, a man who called himself the B.T.K. Strangler for the binding, torturing, killing method he used in at least seven instances back then.

Moreover, English contract law did not allow for any person to enslave himself, nor could any contract be binding without the person's consent.

Finding himself, for William, means gruesomely killing hosts, and binding Logan naked atop a horse.