Sentence examples for no binding force from inspiring English sources

The bill would have had no binding force, and the president had vowed to ignore it.

But what makes the celebratory reaction to yesterday's announcement particularly odd is that the Congressional vote which Obama said he would seek appears, in his mind, to have no binding force at all.

This is the first year that shareholders in Britain have had the right to vote on the compensation committee's report, and the vote is purely advisory, with no binding force.

There was opposition, but very little wonderment, over the necessity of once again opposing an Administration on matters that the country thought it had laid to rest In the "polarized" America whose revival the Vice-President had announced, people took up their old positions as if the promises of the year before had no binding force on the present.

The guidelines, which have no binding force, suggest that scans should be considered for patients with Alzheimer's-type symptoms but "an unclear clinical presentation"; those who develop dementia symptoms before age 65; and those with "persistent" mild cognitive impairment, a condition that often precedes Alzheimer's.

If one's guiding principle is always to act to maximize expected utility, or promote the greatest happiness of the greatest number, then obligations seem to have little or no binding force.

Can contracting states adhere to an international legal regime and simultaneously opt out of any binding force required or to be required by that regime?

Second, although the General Assembly's recommendations have no legal binding force, they have become increasingly influential, for the assembly has become an important agency for what has been called the collective legitimization of state policies.

While conservative in tone and calling for restrictions, such a document has no legally binding force.

While the resolution will have no binding legal force on Obama, it displays the latest argument from the GOP-led Senate to block the White House's Guantánamo closure plan – a central aspect of which involves winning the support of Congress for a proposal it has vigorously and consistently resisted.

Given that the extended family is no longer viewed with veneration and aspiration, coresidence may reflect more the desire for mutual assistance between two generations or the binding force of family obligations than anything else.