#binding

And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#annual #assembly #binding #century #congresses

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. ↗

— Carrie Chapman Catt

#binding #custom #ever #law #more

No obligation to do the impossible is binding. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#impossible #obligation

I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change. ↗

— Tiberius

#always #am #any #beware #binding

What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#breadth #claims #commitment #contract #declaration

America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for. ↗

— Bill Johnson

#allows #america #binding #compensation #court

The law established by the Creator, which has existed from the beginning, extends over the whole globe, is everywhere and at all times binding upon mankind. ↗

— Rufus King

#binding #creator #established #everywhere #existed

In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#agreements #american #binding #countries #cultural

Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#binding #hate #our #tightly #too

But her greatest assets were her bound feet, called in Chinese "three-inch golden lilies" (san-tsun-gin-lian). This meant she walked "like a tender young willow shoot in a spring breeze," as Chinese connoisseurs of women traditionally put it. The sight of a woman teetering on bound feet was supposed to have an erotic effect on men, partly because her vulnerability induced a feeling of protectiveness in the onlooker. ↗

— Jung Chang

#feet #sad-but-true #change