There's certainly a lot of political momentum in the parallel processes but the extent to which the accord politically binds some countries to bring across the weaker proposals into the UN process, that's the determining factor of where we end up at the end of the year.
"As the laws have gotten tougher and as we moved into sentencing codes where a variety of enhancements, of penalties, sounded good politically, they bind the court," Krisberg said.
Overall, the 3 March Treaty of Brest-Litovsk had placed White Finland in the sphere of influence of the German Empire and the agreements signed with the Germans on 7 March 1918 in return for the military intervention had bound Finland politically, economically and militarily to Germany.
I'm not bound by politics, or being politically correct, I'm going to go get this bad guy!" It is pure escapism, it's unapologetic.
Intellectually, they may recognise the case for getting our act together; politically, they are both shaped and bound by their own national politics.
He acknowledged that Hamas was bound to gain politically from any such deal.
Mr. Fritz-Vannahme said that, politically, Ms. Merkel was still bound by many of her past policy statements, which urged budgetary and monetary discipline in the euro zone.
Mr. Obama was preparing to host the Russian president, Dmitri A. Medvedev, at the White House on June 24, so any arrests were bound to be politically explosive.
Such an inquiry is bound to be politically volatile as it digs into now-familiar questions of whether the C.I.A. and F.B.I. sufficiently shared information, what harm was done by a shortage of covert agents and translators, and whether restrictions on the Central Intelligence Agency's methods had kept it from waging an effective war against terrorists.
