Sentence examples for government bound from inspiring English sources

The Chinese government, bound by a variety of interlocking treaties, was not fully sovereign in China.

But if you want a government bound to protect individual liberties, look to that old United States Constitution.

"After the Second World War, the U.S. government bound itself by law never again to expel or return refugees to any country in which they would face persecution," Mr. Corbett wrote in an essay in 1988.

A people is a group of individuals ruled by a common government, bound together by common sympathies, and firmly attached to a common conception of right and justice.

Ryan White programs were federally funded by one government, bound to the same standards and guidelines, and implemented through stand-alone primary health units [ 6, 16].

By the Pact of Locarno (1925), the French and German governments bound themselves not to use force to alter the existing Franco-German frontier.

If the SG does decide to go ahead with that, he would write to each of the 47 European governments bound by the Convention, asking them to say by a set deadline how their mass surveillance practices comply with the Convention.

European companies would be able to bid for major US procurement contracts and vice versa, with governments bound by law to consider bids from national firms and international firms equally.

And how can the government bind any successor administration to an undertaking not to find it economically advantageous to put such information up for sale?

A country counts as free only if its government is bound by the rule of law, which, according to Hayek, "means that government in all its actions is bound by rules fixed and announced beforehand".

A change of government was bound to see the scheme curtailed in some way.