Recognition imaging can also provide a detailed picture of the way in which the dynamics of binding change over time.

ECONOMIST: Microscopy

It was the very first time that a binding instrument in the United Nations system contained a detailed definition of the term DISCRIMINATION .

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

Only a few months ago ASEAN leaders were talking about setting up a regional human-rights body and adopting a strong new charter that would, for the first time, impose binding decisions on member countries and sanctions against wayward ones.

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In the UK, the government's best estimates are that new nuclear power stations will cut our emissions by four percent some time after 2020, yet our binding target is a 34 percent cut, by 2020.

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Researchers can only use dead cells or pieces of a cell and can only test for one response at a time, such as enzyme activity or the binding of a compound to a receptor.

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Make no mistake: A comprehensive, long-term, binding plan that brings the budget into balance over a reasonable time frame is essential.

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SingTel just announced that he had reached a "non-binding conditional agreement" to take 14.5% of Time Engineering, 20% of Time dotCom and 20% of Time's new Internet Service Provider, Time Online.

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Audit requirements are satisfied by including with every electronic document a separate certificate of completion and a legally binding audit trail with the identity of the signer, a time stamp, and location information.

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Mr Cable made it clear at the time that the legislation would include measures to make shareholders' votes binding on companies.

BBC: Democracy Live site links

John Kerry, who wrote to Time Warner Cable and News Corp. last week requesting the companies reach an agreement so viewers could watch football on New Year's Day, Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt said his company is willing to accept binding arbitration "immediately" to resolve the dispute.

FORBES: Media

Additionally, at the time of execution of definitive agreements with respect to our proposal, we expect to provide binding financing commitments from debt and equity financing sources in the form customary for a transaction of this type.

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After the non-binding vote, Leung made it clear she found the whole process not only distasteful, but a waste of her time.

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