Sentence examples for binding voluntary from inspiring English sources

Turnbull is seeking to hold a non-legally binding voluntary public postal vote (at the estimated cost of $122 million) before an official parliamentary vote in November.

The FDA, for example, has been sitting on draft of non-binding voluntary labeling guidelines since 2001.

Ever since it was announced Australia would hold a national, non-binding, voluntary poll on whether or not to legalise same-sex marriage, there has been talk about the potential for a boycott based on the fact the whole exercise is stupid and discriminatory.

The breakthrough at the Durban climate conference was that all countries, developed and developing, agreed to start work on a new worldwide agreement, to be signed in 2015, that would stipulate legally binding – not voluntary – emissions cuts to kick in from 2020.

Young children are also more susceptible to interference by distractors in conjunction search than adults, which has been attributed to the development of feature binding and voluntary attention shifts (Trick & Enns, 1998).

Several chemicals in consumer products are subject to binding or voluntary phase-out agreements that are based on international treaties such as the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants or on regulatory frameworks such as the European Union's Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH).

We consider the implications of this knowledge and remaining research gaps for Hg control policies (legally binding or voluntary actions) at regional and global scales.

Recent evidence supports the view that temporal binding reflects (voluntary) temporal control rather than action-independent temporal predictability (Desantis, Hughes, & Waszak, 2012; Haggard et al., 2002).

Work to strengthen accountability over time: The post-2015 agenda will be non-binding and voluntary, so there are limits on the architecture that can be put in place.

By preferring non-binding or voluntary regulatory instruments (Fredriksson et al. 2012, Skjærseth et al. 2006), this regulatory approach fully participates to the shift "from direct intervention ('rowing') to indirect intervention ('steering') in terms of enabling, motivating and pressing the regulated parties to regulate and to comply with self-regulation" (Dorbeck-Jung and Shelley-Egan 2013, 56).

"A voluntary, binding settlement is in everyone's interests and we will work hard to ensure one is reached," said Patterson.