binding obligation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbindingandobligation
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binding
adjective
uk/ˈbaɪn.dɪŋ/us/ˈbaɪn.dɪŋ/
(especially of an agreement) that cannot be legally avoided ...
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obligation
noun
uk/ˌɒb.lɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌɑː.bləˈɡeɪ.ʃən/
the fact that you are obliged to ...
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(Definition ofbindingandobligationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofbinding obligation
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During this time, ultrasound examinations in pregnancy are approved with abindingobligationto assess the results.
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In 1993, finally, abindingobligationto provide municipal childcare for all children of working parents from one year to school age was legislated.
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Fourth and last, there should be a morebindingobligationto carry out an environmental impact study, not just a formal one as at present.
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For that reason it is a most solemn andbindingobligationsigned by ourselves and many other countries in that area.
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However, potential participants are at that stage being formally asked to accept abindingobligationto pay those costs.
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As to putting any pressure on anyone else, they have again and again disclaimed that there was any suchbindingobligation.
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Nevertheless, we would prefer it to be a morebindingobligation, as you, of all people, are aware.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Here too, we agreed that there should be legislation imposing abindingobligationand setting out workers' rights to further training.
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A date is given in these contracts, but there is nobindingobligationto deliver by that date.
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That was the inquiry posed by a party to abindingobligation.
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At present there is nobindingobligationto serve in the event of hostilities, no discipline and no uniform.
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It is appropriate that we are debating a draft proposal, not a proposal which at this stage need necessarily be seen as abindingobligation.
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It is abindingobligationthat would lead inexorably to detailed legislation.
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On average, people tend to live longer, they have fewer children than before, and those children – men and women – are completely absorbed by the ever morebindingobligationto work.
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That is true even where there is a separate collateral andbindingobligationon broadcasters, their employees and programme makers to abide by the provisions in question.
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However, the addition of a protocol would create a legallybindingobligationand so be sufficient to meet our objective.
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We all feel that those inadequate allowances constitute a national scandal and are an evasion of ourbindingobligationto the dependants of the men in the fighting forces.
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The distinction between a legally binding and a commerciallybindingobligationis admittedly a fine one— too fine to incorporate in legislation.
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It is not therefore abindingobligation.
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This must be a legallybindingobligation.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
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