During two years of negotiations, museum officials here insisted that they could not lend their portion of the scroll, nor any of the other 700,000 works in their collection, until Beijing enacted a legally binding guarantee against seizure.
Mr Burnham said under his leadership Labour would propose a legally binding guarantee that if any council house or housing association property is sold under Right to Buy then at least one new similar property of a similar standard and rent must be built "within walking distance".
It is of critical importance for us to have clear, legally binding guarantees that the missile-defense system being deployed will not be directed against Russia.
The legally binding guarantees, which would be enacted if Fox's takeover bid successfully navigates competition and media plurality probes, are likely to include protections for Sky's 23,000 UK staff and a guarantee of investment in Sky.
Leaders meeting in Brussels said Friday that they had agreed on the legally binding guarantees Ireland said it needed to hold a new referendum, which is expected to have a greater chance of approving the treaty, given the economic crisis.
A discussion about legally binding guarantees with Russia, even guarantees of non-aggression, would risk exposing such differences among the allies.In truth, say European diplomats, the Russians may already have achieved much of what they want.
In order to try to cajole Ireland into approving the treaty, European Union leaders at a meeting in June are expected to offer Ireland legally binding guarantees that the document will not impinge on sovereignty in a variety of areas, including abortion laws and national taxation.
The letters have been variously described as get out of jail free cards, worthless pieces of paper, and legally binding guarantees that the recipients will not be prosecuted.
It was claimed Rangers' chief executive Graham Wallace raised the prospect of the board offering legally binding guarantees not to use the property assets as security for loans or to sell them, but talks subsequently broke down.
The number of affordable housing units must be revisited, with legally binding guarantees of 1-to-1 replacement and assurances that there will be homes for all current residents.
He and Josep Borrell, his foreign minister, have claimed that a non-legally binding guarantee that Madrid would be consulted over the application of a trade deal to Gibraltar would lead to shared sovereignty.
