Sentence examples for bound commitments from inspiring English sources
Except for sensitive agricultural products, this unilateral tariff programme led to a lowering of tariffs beyond WTO bound commitments for which the country may not be given credit in future negotiations.
Binding commitments are not due to be signed until February next year, but over the next 12 months momentum will really begin to build upon many of the targets set out in Nagoya.
Politicians have better excuses than most, being bound by commitments made in outdated manifestos and obliged to reconcile conflicting interests and withstand intrusive media scrutiny.For all their cynicism, Britons are often willing to turn a blind eye to let their politicians off, as Bagehot pretends not to know where the penguin is.
They've simply imbibed the conventional wisdom that members of Congress should be free to negotiate anything without being bound by commitments made beforehand.
Binding commitments made by bidders during the takeover process ('post offer undertakings') are enforceable by the Takeover Panel.
Such a change would be relevant only to countries which have a bound AMS commitment.
Margaret Jane Radin, "Human, Computers, and Binding Commitment" 75 Ind.
Steven Shavell & Kathryn E. Spier, Threats Without Binding Commitment, 2 Topics in Econ.
During the Watergate scandal, Attorney General Elliot Richardson and his deputy, William Ruckelshaus, felt bound by the commitments they had given Congress not to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox.
"Governments are bound to their commitments by international laws and would not violate their obligations with a change of government," he said.
"I will no longer be bound by any commitments I made, if a decision to stop the attacks... is not taken and implemented," said Idriss, who heads the supreme military council of the Free Syrian Army.
