Sentence examples for efforts to bind from inspiring English sources

Even if the coalition remains intact, Mr. Tadic's efforts to bind Serbia to the European Union are limited because the presidency is a largely symbolic post and Mr. Kostunica remains a crucial driver of government policy.

Subsequent efforts to bind them to the main party, including a meeting last July chaired by Hillary Clinton at her most soothing, failed to lead to the hoped-for entente cordiale.

Certainly the emperors continued their efforts to bind men collectively to their socially necessary tasks, but the repetition of laws tying the colonus to his estate, the navicularius to his ship, and the curialis to his municipal senate suggests that those edicts had little effect.

Regarding the second-most "suffering" country, Armenia, Reuters headlined on December 2nd, "Russia's Putin Faces Protests as He Woos Armenia," and reported that, "Some of the crowd in central Yerevan held banners declaring 'Putin, go home' or 'No to the USSR', a reference to the Russian leader's efforts to bind former Soviet republics together more closely in economic and security alliances".

It is partially a historical treatment of the subject which outlines initial efforts to bound the security problem beginning early 1970 through today's state of security engineering practice.

"Plaintiffs' effort to bind the entire Internet to a sweeping preliminary injunction is impermissible.

As the debut production of Song of Houston, a broad effort to bind the innovative 52-year-old Houston Grand Opera to the community through a series of cultural events, Saturday's performances, including a free matinee, attracted many first-time operagoers, some in native dress.

Essentially the obituary talked entirely of religion man's effort to bind himself to God and not of the revelation whereby God has made Himself known to man, and continues to do so.JOHN PHILLIPSSouthamptonSIR You do not relate the decline of the notion of God to another seminal event unique to Europe: the Enlightenment.

Moreover, we note that there are reasons to question the normative underpinnings of the shift to the Mandatory View, in that it may have been part of an effort to bind "uncivilized" states to the international law worked out by a small group of Western powers.

Born into a devout Muslim family—his father is referred to as "Hajji" (one who has made a pilgrimage to Mecca) and his mum works as a Qu'ran teacher in an Islamic school he told me that he forced himself to suppress his doubts about the religion when they arose in his early teens, even choosing to spend all of his free time studying Islamic texts in an effort to bind himself to the faith.

In fact, however, the leadership in Tokyo at this time had in no way changed its mind and these actions were merely concerted to create the illusion of an eastern threat to the Soviet Union in an effort to bind its Siberian divisions.