Binding
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Eric Allen Kramer doesn't have much to do, but the few scenes he does have are
binding.
The acting is really spell
binding
though I think Esha remained a bit quiet and she could have used some lines for herself.
House of Games is spell
binding.
Even on just a technical bondage level it's pretty lame (aside from the lady in the strait-jacket with the blindfold and ball gag); soap operas do a more convincing job of
binding
& gagging.
This document is
binding
on both of us as signatories, on our respective political parties, and on their democratically elected representatives.
This means that anyone residing in Austria can file a complaint to the European Court for Human Rights, whose judgements are
binding
on the government.
In the “Copenhagen Accord,” the UN finally recognized the target, though without any
binding
measures for achieving it.
Although the UN Human Rights Council’s resolution to protect online freedoms is not binding, it offers a starting point for ensuring that governments allow citizens to use the Internet as a tool for maximizing political participation.
Taking inspiration from this innovative approach, the US and the EU should move on from areas in which they have already agreed on
binding
standards, and adopt broad principles and frameworks for ongoing negotiations on knottier issues, such as health and food safety.
In the framework developed by the development economist Dani Rodrik, a shortage of capital can be a
binding
“growth constraint”: the place where “the biggest bang for the [policy] reform buck can be obtained.”
Indeed, high investment serves as a sign that other
binding
constraints to growth are absent, implying prosperity and that things are going right.
The problem is that for poor economies, raising the capital needed to relax
binding
growth constraints is difficult.
That’s why the world took the neo-liberal bet in the 1990’s: international capital mobility would come to the rescue by relaxing capital constraints where they were binding, and by reducing the scope for corruption and rent-seeking, which was often a more significant
binding
growth constraint.
Mario Draghi, head of the Bank of Italy and Trichet’s anointed successor at the ECB, has called for
binding
limits not on just budgets but also on a host of other national economic policies.
Often, these limits are not binding, but, once capital deepening is exhausted, technological progress, which makes inputs more productive in creating final value, is the long-run driver of growth.
There must be certain accepted rules of the political game that are
binding
on all, so that whoever does not accept or obey them is disqualified.
For example, unlike the World Trade Organization, whose dispute-settlement mechanism imposes penalties for abandoning negotiated reductions of trade barriers, the targets for emission reductions are not
binding
and enforceable commitments.
Leaders in both regions have declared their commitment to holding the rise in global temperature to below 2º Celsius and to achieving legally
binding
outcomes in Paris.
In keeping with its commitment to the 2º C cap on the rise in global temperature, CELAC not only supports a legally
binding
agreement, but also calls for wealthy countries to meet their promises to provide developing countries with $100 billion per year in climate finance by 2020.
There, world leaders actually signed a legally
binding
deal to cut carbon emissions – something that will elude the Copenhagen summit-goers.
The Eurogroup, for example, has declared that all eurozone sovereign bonds issued after January 1, 2013, should include CACs, which render a government’s debt-restructuring proposal legally
binding
on all bondholders if a majority of bondholders accept the deal.
December marks the tenth anniversary of the UN Convention Against Corruption – the only global, legally
binding
treaty of its kind.
Such a strategy should go beyond voluntary action plans and partnerships to focus on developing a legally
binding
international agreement, underpinned by a commitment from all governments to eliminate plastic pollution.
One of the authors of this article proposed a convention modeled after the Paris climate agreement: a
binding
overarching goal combined with voluntary national action plans and flexible measures to achieve them.
A comprehensive, binding, and forward-looking global plastics treaty will not be easy to achieve.
The Global Green-Investment ShiftBEIJING – Climate negotiators from around the world are headed for their annual pre-Christmas gathering, this year in Warsaw, with the goal of setting out concrete steps toward a
binding
global climate deal in 2015.
In the absence of a
binding
global agreement, such unilateral or bilateral commitments by countries to rein in their contribution to global warming represent the most realistic hope for addressing climate change.
The 1997 Kyoto Protocol marked a major step forward in efforts to head off the most disastrous consequences of climate change, establishing a precedent for legally
binding
limits on emissions.
The EU was not just an important peace-building project in the wake of World War II, when
binding
the wounds of war, especially between France and Germany, was such a challenge.
So long as official policy rates – and thus long-term mortgage rates – remain low, such restrictions are not as
binding
as they otherwise would be.
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