Sentence examples for socially binding force from inspiring English sources

But Mrs. Merkel's conservative bloc regards conscription as a socially binding force.

Public-employee pensions and employment contracts, which Tony Judt thinks of as a socially binding force, are now from Athens to Madison, Wisconsin the object of hostility by people who don't have them and of fierce, to-the-barricades protectiveness by people who do.

Public-employee pensions and employment contracts, which Tony Judt thinks of as a socially binding force, are now — from Athens to Madison, Wisconsin — the object of hostility by people who don't have them and of fierce, to-the-barricades protectiveness by people who do.

As its name suggests, it is a guidance document, and does not have binding force.

It was the orchestra, with agile harpsichord and cello continuo, that offered the essential binding force.

An insistence on dissonance was one binding force among the musicians.

According to Stephen Nissenbaum, a historian at the University of Massachusetts, Irving and his patrician cronies sensed an urgent need to invent socially binding "traditions," ostensibly rooted in English and Dutch Christmases, for the rapidly expanding but culturally threadbare commercial city and nation.

"So have our notions of loyalty, and the importance of sex and sexual life as a binding force".

Ms. Chan said now that the covenant's binding force has been established, the city should enforce it.

Then the plasma expands until the particles reach a distance where the gluon's binding force kicks in again.

"Our shop acts as a binding force within the village, bringing the whole community together.