"binding power" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a strong influence or force that binds people or things together, restricting their freedom of action. For example: "The strong bond of friendship gives us a binding power that cannot be broken."
They will want to hold out for a legally binding power, a judicially enforceable non-discrimination clause.
Community boards play only an advisory role and have no binding power.
The binding power of this collection, however, running like electricity through every story, is magic: its pages are populated by devils and apparitions, mermaids, ghosts at garden gates and green men.
Politics and language: multiculturalists argue that the binding power of the liberal nation state has been eroded from within by value diversity and from without by the arrival of immigrant communities with other loyalties.
"Of course, when the ruling comes out our friends in Philippines and in the United States will preach that the tribunal has binding power, and that China must obey the result.
Excavating generations of racial, physical and sexual trauma, "Family Affair" reminds us how little we understand (or want to understand) the binding power of incest.
This body would "not have any legally binding powers," according to a draft of the document seen by The International Herald Tribune.
While more than 90% of respondents said they expected COP21 would result in a global agreement, only a third believed it would have binding powers to implement any substantive changes on a wide scale.
Cable has announced four main policies: more transparency, a requirement that companies should "report" on boardroom diversity, a mechanism for clawing back pay settlements not justified by the company's performance, and granting shareholders binding powers to block excessive rewards.
Although the ESRB would lack legally binding powers, the Treasury dislikes the idea of the ECB's president chairing what would be the EU's macroprudential overlord.
"This policy response is in our view necessary and welcome even if it does not address the underlying weaknesses of the system: high private and or public debt, a lack of fiscal integration, the absence of a euro area wide banking regulator with binding powers," said RBS.
