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Resilience, stoicism, and community-mindedness have been binding and guiding the nation for centuries.

From BusinessWeek • Dec. 22, 2011

Ofcom is due to conclude its report at the end of this month, but its recommendations would not have been binding for Cable.

From The Guardian • Dec. 21, 2010

It had been made, they said, by Charles: it might, perhaps, have been binding on him; but his brother did not think himself bound by it.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

He only told me, and that but once, that he should wish his nephew to have his watch; but it need not have been binding, if I had not chose it.’

From Memoir of Jane Austen by Austen-Leigh, James Edward

What tale would this be to remember of a boy's life, that he gave it to buy freedom from a pledge which need never have been binding?

From Lady Baltimore by Wister, Owen