Sentence examples for binding rule from inspiring English sources

In 2000, the government passed a legally binding rule to eradicate fuel poverty by 2016, but this has been missed by a wide margin.

The group adopted a binding rule: 80percentt of its members could commit the entire caucus membership to vote together on a given proposal.

The Justice Department contends that the letter is "merely a general statement of policy with nonbinding effect," But Gary L. Kepplinger, general counsel of the accountability office, said administration officials had treated it as "a binding rule".

It now seems that whenever anyone ventures an opinion they are expected to live by the most ungenerous interpretation of that opinion as a binding rule, 100% of the time.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that the FBI's decision to call the Juggalos a gang wasn't a "final agency action" — government jargon for an official, legally binding rule — and therefore couldn't be challenged in court.

The EPA recently withdrew a proposal to outline what kind of water bodies deserve federal protection that had been pending since February 2012 and announced it would issue a legally binding rule instead.

That's according to a federal judge, in a ruling that notes the Federal Aviation Administration has not made any legally binding rules against the practice.

The Antarctic, after all, has no internationally recognized governance, which leaves the 46 members of the Antarctic Treaty System — with widely ranging national interests and an only mildly binding rule-making apparatus — as the next closest thing.

"These reforms are not voluntary, but are binding rules subject to strong oversight and enforcement".

Germany, however, wants binding rules and strong punishments.

WTO trade agreements provide legally binding rules for international commerce and trade policy.