Sentence examples for binding promise from inspiring English sources

The judge found that the woman had made a legally binding promise to the nephew and rejected the revised will.

Both Warner Brothers and Disney have said they will not send out screeners to people other than the Oscar voters who signed the legally binding promise.

David Cameron got EU leaders to make a legally binding promise in February that non-euro countries would not be required to contribute to eurozone bailouts.

Instead of giving the employees stock, Facebook made a contractually binding promise to give them shares later, after the I.P.O.

The only universal consequence of a legally binding promise is, that the law makes the promisor pay damages if the promised event does not come to pass.

The consequences of a binding promise at common law are not affected by the degree of power which the promisor possesses over the promised event.

They offered binding promises known as the 20/20/20 pledges.

The difficulty is that, whatever practical and normative benefits binding promises may have, it will not always be epistemically rational for the promisor to perform.

Thus, to the extent that markets rely on binding promises, they rely on an element of irrationality in human decision-making.

The trust-based institutions lack binding promises, thus ecosystem-services suppliers are unsure about the compensation they will receive for transferring services to users.

It's big on talk of "mutual respect" and "lasting change" and "real opportunities" for Indigenous Australians, but nothing much in the way of binding promises or measurable outcomes.