The word "bindings" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to a number of different concepts, including the bindings of a book, a binding legal agreement, or a pair of bindings for snowboarding. For example, "I need to purchase a new pair of bindings for my snowboard before I hit the slopes this weekend."
AT DAYBREAK, after prayers in the ancient basilica, Father Justin, the Texan-born librarian of St Catherine's monastery in Sinai, doffs his clerical head-dress and begins operating a Swiss camera that can capture illuminations, bindings and gold leaf in all their glorious detail.
(Many WTO tariff-ceilings, known as "bindings", were higher than the existing tariffs, thus allowing the tariffs to be raised legally under the terms of earlier trade agreements.
It lit the backs of bindings, pictures, furniture which had reached exactly the right pitch of faded country-house shabbiness, curtains laundered hundreds of times over and music open above the keys of a piano.
So far, industrialised country exporters have turned their noses up at the tariff bindings offered by developing countries in the negotiation since they often don't lower the actual tariff rates.In financial terms, tariff bindings are options.
The tariff ceilings provide assurance that trade will not get choked off in bad times that the beggar-thy-neighbour policies of the 1930s will not be repeated.But the bindings (as ceilings are called in WTO jargon) do not apply to all WTO members.
Mechanical clocks allowed the days of the industrial revolution to be regularised in new ways; cars changed the landscape and extended the geography of people's lives; the printed book made human knowledge more accessible, more easily built on and more thoroughly examinable, fixing it in bindings onto shelves.
Some of the most arresting bindings were inspired by books made by a Wisconsin printer and wood engraver called Gaylord Schanilec.
Yet for all of this effort, the polls have barely moved in months, a hung parliament looks inevitable and the manifestos have been written as coalition bargaining positions rather than binding promises.
We certainly are in no way looking to make further binding commitments in the absence of very serious like binding commitments from other countries, and there is no evidence of that".
But others, including health secretary Jeremy Hunt, aware of rising obesity levels among primary school children, are keen to see specific binding policies put in place to show the government has delivered an identifiable policy legacy.
"This is a non-binding process so at the very least the British stance would seem to show fear".
