Although Muslim northerners from Mr. Ouattara's party are bound to be elected in legislative elections in December, they might be shut out of the all-powerful executive and ministries.
He is not bound to call an election until September 2009.
Some of these pro-life women are bound to win their elections, and that will surely change the tenor of the national conversation about abortion.
Federally subsidized student loan rates were bound to become an election-year fight, since Congress provided only enough money for five years of low-interest rates in 2007.
The strikes are bound to increase pre-election calls in the Conservative party for a minimum turnout threshold before any strike ballot can be deemed lawful, and so protected from civil damages claims.
Taxes are bound to rise after the election; cutting them beforehand is fraudulent.
But if big deficits persist, taxes seem bound to rise after the election.
Rising gas prices are bound to dominate the fall election because voters are slapped in the face with them every time they visit the pump.
But expect talk about fighting the sort of complacency demonstrated in the Commons last week by Kelvin Hopkins, the MP for Luton North, who told Cameron that he was bound to lose the next election.
Now, with Mr. Akin's name legally bound to the ballot, the election approaching and new polling data presenting a clearer idea of his chances, Republicans are deliberating whether to renege on their reneging.
