But they're also set by the binding power of existing teaching, which a pope cannot reverse or contradict without proving his own office, well, fallible — effectively dynamiting the very claim to authority on which his decisions rest.
Lacking papal authority, canon law, an "international" connection with civil authority (as there had been in the old Holy Roman Empire), the binding power of church councils, or a single philosophy, the Reformers came up with alternatives for most of these, though their new systems were more varied than the at least nominally homogeneous Catholic skein.
The democratic ideal of autonomy leads David Held and others to emphasise the emerging structures of international law that produce a kind of binding power of collective decisions.
A difficulty has been the relatively poor binding power of the targeted microbubbles, especially in the non-immunogenic form suitable for human use.
The results of this deep human history point to the binding power of connections across continents.
The legally binding power of the WHO FCTC compelled lawmakers to comply with international standards.
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.
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.
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.
"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," Jeannette Catsoulis wrote in The Times.
