Sentence examples for were binding from inspiring English sources

The rulings of the Court, he said, were binding.

But in the final minutes, the EU agreed a phrase that it said would ensure future commitments were binding.

Representative Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts and chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, implicitly questioned the Treasury Department's judgment about the whether the bonuses were binding.

Whenever the carabiners were binding the cords, and boundaries between the lanes were gone, the dancers moved hungrily into the space.

Henry Ford said cars and planes were "binding the world together".

He was a charismatic leader of unrivaled prestige (auctoritas), whose merest suggestions were binding.

Submissions from the law firm Mishcon de Reya, which represents the remaining 21 claimants, insist these were "binding promises" and not simply "statements of present intention which could be abandoned at will or subjected to unheralded conditions thereafter".

Experts inside and outside the F.D.A. said that such guidance, as the agency calls it, had the effect of setting the industry standard, meaning blood centers follow them as if they were binding.

He also said commitments of further devolution for Scotland were binding.

The most abundant GO categories represented were "binding" and "nucleic acid binding" (Fig.  4).

Cell surface Flag immunoreactivity decreased significantly only when Flag-tagged receptors were binding-competent (Figure 3C).