The bill would have had no binding force, and the president had vowed to ignore it.
The next best thing might be binding rules that force southern governments to take seriously those things dear to German voters.
But since assuming control of Congress in January with what leaders called a mandate to change course in Iraq, Democrats have struggled to craft acceptable, binding legislation to force the administration to bring U.S. troops home.
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If the dispute cannot be resolved using these mechanisms, then the matter will be referred on the next business day to a disputes resolution task force for a binding decision.
Russia also wants the Georgian leadership to sign a binding agreement renouncing the use of force to recover the lost territories.
Some governance experts see a difficulty in this: binding rejection of a remuneration report would force a firm to redraft pay deals already concluded.
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The task-force said that it would treat its new rules as binding on all countries, not merely its 29 mostly rich members, and it laid down a bold deadline for compliance: the end of this month.
Where force is necessary, we have a moral and strategic interest in binding ourselves to certain rules of conduct.
The San Remo resolutions were incorporated into international law through the mandates issued by the League of Nations and their legal force has never been cancelled or superseded by any subsequent treaty or binding international resolution.
Although not legally binding, the guidance could well be used in a court case in which someone is seeking to force an organisation to improve the accessibility of its website.
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