Though bound together economically, the euro-zone states are not yet a cohesive bloc.
Several other groups bound up economically with forests; many monasteries had special rights in particular forests, for example for hunting or tree felling.
Today we are all bound together – electronically, economically and politically – as never before.
Second, civil wars that turn millions of people into refugees will destabilise Europe economically and socially, which is bound to hit the global economy hard.
Overall, the 3 March Treaty of Brest-Litovsk had placed White Finland in the sphere of influence of the German Empire and the agreements signed with the Germans on 7 March 1918 in return for the military intervention had bound Finland politically, economically and militarily to Germany.
The great paradox of Asian strategy today is that the closer countries find themselves bound up with China economically, the more they seek the reassurance of American security.
Things are bound to change for the better economically.
But now that the cost of a billion bytes, or a gigabyte, of RAM has fallen below $400 (from thousands of dollars several years ago), it becomes economically feasible to have personal computers that are not bound by the four-gigabyte limit of 32-bit chips.
Economically, they are not, with employment officially at 14percentt and bound to increase as the huge public sector -- 80percentt of the economy -- fails to produce even half the 800,000 jobs needed yearly.
Because Norway cannot afford economically to be excluded from Europe's single market, it is bound to pay into the EU budget and adopt nearly all EU laws but has no role in making them.
