Sentence examples for binding ourselves from inspiring English sources

It is this type of personal freedom that either stops us from binding ourselves fully or allows us to feel free to bind ourselves continuously but always with a sense of the possibility of retreat.

"Where force is necessary, we have a moral and strategic interest in binding ourselves to certain rules of conduct.

We can do this by binding ourselves to multi-year strategies, adopted by participatory means, which identify the range of measures necessary in various policy areas, with a clear timeline for action and an allocation of responsibilities across various branches of government.

Referencing the work of the economists Cass R. Sunstein and Richard H. Thaler, Mr. Akst argues for greater use of voluntary and involuntary incentives and constraints, from being compelled to contribute to Social Security so that we'll be forced to save for retirement to binding ourselves on StickK.com.

It's a way of binding ourselves, much as, in The Odyssey, Odysseus asks his men to lash him to the mast so he can guide the ship past the Sirens.

Hopefully, instead of binding ourselves in frustration, this year we'll alter our expectations and begin appreciating Lamar Odom for what he is.

We didn't believe in ourselves or back ourselves.

So we passed the landmark Climate Change Act and set ourselves a binding target to reduce the UK's greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80% by 2050.

Consequently, we have limited ourselves to NO binding to ferric heme in this work.

The principles of practical reason are constitutive principles of rational agency, binding on us insofar as we necessarily commit ourselves to complying with them in willing anything at all.

And so the double bind we find ourselves in is even more double and more binding than we knew.