Sentence examples for were bound not from inspiring English sources

It denied to same-sex spouses federal benefits and the responsibilities of marriage — which, he wrote, were bound not only with questions of money and security but of dignity (a word he used many times), pride, and honor.

Moreover, the reformers maintained, the Jews were no longer a nation and therefore were bound not by their religious and political code of law but only by the dictates of moral law.

A variety of pressures compelled the NATO powers in Dublin to support a ban in principle, but the biggest difficulty the ban presented to them was how their armed forces could continue to work together if they were bound not to use, transfer or stockpile cluster bombs, nor to "assist anyone" outside the treaty in doing so.

Some people are bound not to like it.

The prosecutors, too, are bound not to debate the question of Mr. Schwarz's guilt.

Former health secretary, Alan Johnson, gave him a generous free hand, but it was bound not to be enough.

He was bound not by sentiment, only by a duty to make the team better for the future.

She and her friend would be bound not by the articulated terms of the loan but by their entire shared history.

Now she's gone, the debate is bound not just to continue but to deepen, and perhaps evolve into something more than a mosaic of polarised opinions.

He was bound not for glory, but for Hollywood, and the endless wasteland of such movies as Blue Hawaii, Kissin' Cousins, Roustabout and Girl Happy.

These states are bound not to transfer nuclear weapons or to help non-nuclear states to obtain them.