Sentence examples for legally binding language from inspiring English sources

At one point during the hearing, City Councilman David I. Weprin, chairman of the Finance Committee, waved a document in the air and, invoking Perry Mason, declared he had a "smoking gun": a city bond prospectus including legally binding language that stated that rescinding the $400 property tax rebate "requires city legislative approval".

There is no legally binding language about it.

The EU backed down on having the intended emissions cuts, agreed at a national level, to be legally binding; the US accepted language on "loss and damage"; China and India agreed that an aspiration of holding warming to 1.5C could be included.

Once the commissioner is established, they will consult with them and then agree statutory, or legally binding, standards for Welsh language provision - the first time this has taken place.

The final communiqué took out the words "legally binding".

Some critics of the treaty said that it still contained what amounted to an escape clause, in that countries had already agreed to put off for several years the drafting of language to make it legally binding.

The actual text of the agreement which promises developing countries certain benefits in return for sharing their flu viruses with the world contains mostly "soft" language that's not legally binding.

White House lawyers have found many court decisions holding, as the Supreme Court said in 2005, that "restrictive language contained in committee reports is not legally binding".

For the (legal) record: This marriage is not legally binding.

But a Kremlin document called the preamble language about the relationship between offensive and defensive weapons "legally binding," something the Obama administration denies.

"They are welcome to interpret any language of the treaty as they want, but that interpretation is not legally binding on the United States," Micah Zenko, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, said in a telephone interview.