The Treasury has up to two years to make its mind up, and although it is bound to be a serious exercise, the political side should not be underestimated.
Spending your days showing people how to improve their Fruit Ninja technique is bound to be more fun than convincing them to pony up for a smart TV.
Obama is bound to come up with some measures that can be portrayed as appealing to Republicans.
But to work, the military campaign has to be intimately bound up with economic and political progress.
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Or to put it another way, the practicalities of whether RBS and Lloyds could continue to be Scottish banks are intricately bound up in a separate, hugely important, debate - which is whether Scotland would be part of a formal sterling zone, with the Bank of England as central bank for a separated Scotland.
But it would be a mistake to think that the entire nation was bound up in the events surrounding the fall of Silvio Berlusconi.
Obama has banned the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to Yemen since January 2010 because of security concerns after a would-be bomber attempted to blow up a U.S.-bound flight on instructions from al-Qaida operatives in Yemen.
With branches only in Switzerland, Wegelin claimed to be bound only by Swiss banking laws, brazenly scooping up deposits after UBS jettisoned Americans.
Although many sources of gas are already bound up in long-term contracts, optimists think Britain might be able to get more of it fairly easily.
The drastic restructuring he sought -- reducing the bloated staff levels, flattening the hierarchy and offloading welfare programs that were soaking up billions of rupiah each year-- was bound to be resisted.
The final deciding factor for the future of the region's economies seems to be, as is often the case in the Gulf, bound up with oil prices.
Look for more paralysis impacting the stock market down and the bond market up, as interest rates decline as a leading indicator of a slowdown that is bound to be unpleasant for everyone but the super-rich.
They are bound to Formula One by the "Concorde Agreement" until the end of 2007 but would be free to set up a new series in 2008 should the sport's chiefs not meet their financial demands.
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