The bill would have had no binding force, and the president had vowed to ignore it.
In today's more affluent and secure Israel, Zionism is no longer such a strong binding force.
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.
Even if every General Assembly member except Israel votes in favor of a resolution recognizing "Palestine, " all the Palestinians will have achieved is another non-binding resolution, with no force of law, asserting the same thing that thousands of UN resolutions already assert.
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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This treaty will come into force -- and be binding upon the U.S., assuming its ratification -- once 65 of the world's nations have ratified it, even if dangerous states like Libya, North Korea, Syria and Iraq decline to become parties to the convention.
After the Six-Day War in 1967, Israeli military forces occupied all of the territory indicated on Map 4, but joined the United States and other nations in supporting United Nations Resolution 242, which is still the binding law that condemns the acquisition of land by force and requires Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories.
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law through the mandates issued by the League of Nations and their legal force has never been cancelled or superseded by any subsequent treaty or binding international resolution.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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