Binding
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That binds; obligatory.
The act or process of one who, or that which, binds.
Anything that binds; a bandage; the cover of a book, or the cover with the sewing, etc.; something that secures the edge of cloth from raveling.
The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel.
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Binding Quotations
Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.
Thomas Aquinas
No obligation to do the impossible is binding.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
Otto von Bismarck
Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.
Milan Kundera
The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
Irving Babbitt
And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens.
Christopher Dawson
What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world.
John Charles Polanyi
A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
Paul Getty
Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up.
David Duchovny
And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian.
Hjalmar Branting
Binding Translations
binding in Afrikaans is band
binding in Dutch is strip, reep, band, strook, windsel
binding in Finnish is nauha
binding in French is bandeau
binding in German is verbindlich, bindend, bindend
binding in Italian is legatura
binding in Portuguese is ligar
binding in Swedish is bindning
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