Cosby's lawyers are trying to get the case thrown out, arguing that a previous prosecutor a decade ago made a binding promise that the comic would never be charged.
The issuer makes a binding promise to buy back the bonds at a future date at par value.
David Cameron got EU leaders to make a legally binding promise in February that non-euro countries would not be required to contribute to eurozone bailouts.
But Governor Hodges said the government had failed to make a legally binding promise not to store the plutonium in his state, and he demanded that the two sides get a court order enforcing the promise.
Push funding will continue to be important, especially in subsidizing basic research, but the way to get companies to put resources where they're most needed is to make a concrete, binding promise to buy.
If he won't make a "solemn, binding promise" this week, I will: I pledge to support a primary challenge against Henry Waxman if he votes for the chained CPI.
Instead of giving the employees stock, Facebook made a contractually binding promise to give them shares later, after the I.P.O.
In a credence goods game with an expert and a consumer, we study experimentally the impact of two devices that are predicted to induce consumer-friendly behavior if the expert has a propensity to feel guilty when he believes that he violates the consumerʼs payoff expectations: (i) an opportunity for the expert to make a non-binding promise; and (ii) an opportunity for the consumer to burn money.
Specifically, it has tested the effects of two devices that are predicted to have no impact on behavior if agents have standard preferences, but have the power to manipulate beliefs and are therefore predicted to have an impact if players are guilt averse: (i) an opportunity for the expert to make a non-binding promise; and (ii) an opportunity for the consumer to burn money.
The painter April Gornik told The Globe that she and the painter Eric Fischl, above, along with the video artist Bill Viola, decided not to take part in the show, "Atmospheric Conditions," until the university makes a legally binding promise not to sell any works.
The organizers had not demonstrated where they would find the money to pay construction costs beyond the 120 million francs, he said, and the local authorities had made no binding promise to pay for the house's operations.
