"We sent them [Apple] a legally binding letter and are awaiting their legally binding reply," Alexander Zharov, head of Russian communications regulator Roskomnadzor, told Interfax.
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First — technically speaking — the referendum is not legally binding.
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Here's why: • The Brexit referendum is not legally binding.
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While the Accord was legally binding and supported mostly by companies outside North America, many US companies opted to sign onto the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety, which is not legally binding.
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Earlier this year, for example, Britain adopted what it says is a legally binding target to reach "net-zero" emissions by 2050 (though what "legally binding" actually amounts to is not exactly clear).
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But these were only guidelines; they aren't legally binding regulations.
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Mr Cameron insists his changes are legally binding and irreversible.
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That's because, in the end, those wishes aren't legally binding.
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This letter of intent was not a legally binding contract.
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The resolution condemning the U.S. move is not legally binding.
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They have since confirmed the union was not legally binding.
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Another section states that the deal is not legally binding.
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The ruling is not yet legally binding, the bank said.
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Mostly, people said, there was nothing legally binding the deal.
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Its resolutions are not legally binding but carry moral authority.
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That assent is legally binding, but would be unilaterally revocable.
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But May says she needs more - a legally binding change.
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On one side, the belief is that only a comprehensive, legally binding global treaty has any hope of adequately (and justly) addressing climate change — so a comprehensive, legally binding global treaty must be had.
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A comprehensive, legally binding, unanimous agreement was always an impossible dream.
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There is nothing legally binding or carrying any penalties within it.
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However, they will be legally binding if the resolution is adopted.
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General Assembly resolutions are not legally binding but carry political weight.
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The COC (code of conduct), we need a legally binding instrument.
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Later administrations stepped even further away from a legally binding treaty.
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The symbolic vote from the General Assembly is not legally binding.
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This wasn't a traditional agreement, as it was not legally binding.
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They are not legally binding and do not detail any punishments.
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Ethos is making these and other commitments legally binding and enforceable.
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While the measures are legally binding, there is no enforcement mechanism.
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The agreement was not legally binding, but it was an agreement.
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Slovenia's government welcomed the ruling, calling it "definitive and legally binding".
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The mufti's opinion is not legally binding but often taken into consideration.
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DE) said it has reached two legally binding agreements with E.ON (EONGn.
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But the amount is not legally binding, and terms were left vague.
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But as with most international documents, these protocols are not legally binding.
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The problem is that it didn't work because it wasn't legally binding.
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It's not at all clear, however, that this deadline is legally binding.
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They also pointed out that, technically, the referendum is not legally binding.
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The target is a legally binding commitment set by the European Commission.
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Leaders all ruled out new, legally binding accords to amend the package.
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The amendments are not legally binding, for the most part, but Mrs.
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However, it is not legally binding under Russian criminal or administrative law.
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Former NHTSA Administrator Joan Claybrook said the NHTSA should issue legally binding rules.
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He urged parties to comply with the legally binding ruling and avoid provocations.
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The pact was the first legally-binding global deal to fight climate change.
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However, the MoU, seen by Reuters, does not constitute a legally binding agreement.
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For these goals to stick, they need to be legally binding, activists said.
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" The ruling was legally binding, he said: "The time for appeal is over.
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There has been no legally binding offer from IAG, it said on Monday.
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He agreed to comply with all legally binding ethics regulations while in office.
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The request carries no administrative orders or penalties and is not legally binding.
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"The letter isn't legally binding," DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds told BBC radio.
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The ruling is not yet legally binding as the company can still appeal.
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The decision, made by the court's medical malpractice section, is not legally binding.
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That's an astonishing degree of global consensus, even without a legally binding treaty.
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The renewable target is a legally binding commitment set by the European Union.
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Elizabeth Goitein: Every state has laws authorizing mandatory quarantines, which are legally binding.
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SoftBank acted within its rightsA term sheet is not a legally binding document.
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However it's not legally binding — so there's a pretty fat chance of that.
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The recommendations aren't legally binding, but lawmakers have said more legislation could follow.
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The resolution is not legally binding but represents widespread opposition to the move.
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Holding a legally binding referendum in Scotland would require the approval of London.
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It's the first such legally binding deal between two states in U.S. history.
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That decision was legally binding per international law, but there's no enforcement mechanism.
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The pact had an initial three-year timeline but was not legally binding.
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General Assembly resolutions are not legally binding, but they often reflect world opinion.
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If ratified, this treaty will be legally binding and enforceable through trade sanctions.
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Thus, the marriage was not legally binding under the rules of the Catholic Church.
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While FSB rules are not legally binding, G20 members commit themselves to applying them.
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"We will make sure that all these additional safeguards are legally binding," she said.
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"Be mindful of updating the designation because it's a legally binding document," said Braxton.
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But according to the Clark County of Nevada, the ceremony was not legally binding.
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"It is impossible for it to be irrelevant, it is legally binding," he said.
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UK Prime Minister May said she'd won legally binding guarantees from the European Union.
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The framework "is historic in the sense that it is legally binding," Payet said.
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"We are not going back to work without a legally binding agreement," Sharkey said.
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Morales had 46% and Mesa 37% in the legally-binding tally late on Tuesday.
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But that is far short of a change to the legally binding withdrawal treaty.
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By then, he hopes to have a legally binding peace deal to justify it.
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Although the court's ruling is legally binding, it cannot sanction parties for non-compliance.
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"Biggest Salary Negotiation Regret: "Not putting very explicit legally binding terms in the contract.
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The G-20's decisions and statements are not legally binding on member countries.
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The Philadelphia bill would require a legally binding, written contract between employers and workers.
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Given that these promises are written in the Withdrawal Agreement they are legally binding.
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This latest agreement is legally binding, and more than 170 countries have signed on.
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But, Morison points out, none of these rules are legally binding for the president.
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The ceremony is not legally binding, more of a symbolic gesture extolling self-love.
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The resolution — essentially a formal statement of a U.N. opinion — is not legally binding.
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So he struck what amounted to a political agreement without legally binding reduction requirements.
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Recommendations would not breach Meroni because they are not legally binding, the opinion said.
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The Obama administration praised the ruling as legally binding but refrained from trumpeting it.
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Some have called for a voluntary agreement, others want rules that are legally binding.
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Without legally binding mechanisms or strict policy enforcements, the stakes of signing are low.
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Marriages of the more legally binding variety are far rarer at the opera house.
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In the US, for example, states have yet to order legally binding travel bans.
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The agreements announced on Monday make the commitments to end the practice legally binding.
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While the ruling is legally binding, the court has no mechanism to enforce it.
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No. The 2 percent standard is just a guideline, not a legally binding requirement.
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It said the accord was valid for five years, but was not legally binding.
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They will only be legally binding in a final text ratified by both parliaments.
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In other words, it's a body whose decisions, although not legally binding, carry weight internationally.
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It also argues that "ever closer union" is legally binding and, unlike Britain, wants it.
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The pact, which is not legally binding, calls for a more orderly and humane approach.
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ASEAN members called for a legally binding code of conduct as far back as 1996.
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It should be noted that if Britain does vote to leave, nothing legally binding happens.
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However, while the ruling is considered legally binding, there is no mechanism to enforce it.
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The latter is legally binding, specific, multilateral — and conspicuously absent from the U.S. economic playbook.
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A fatwa, or religious edict, is influential among Muslims although it is not legally binding.
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They are voluntary and legally-binding agreements that limit the future development of lands forever.
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Daniels, 39, argues the deal is not legally binding because Trump never signed the document.
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In Brazil a judge has to ratify a settlement for it to become legally binding.
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What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas — unless it's a totally real, legally binding wedding.
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The guidance, first reported in the New York Times, doesn't set new, legally binding policy.
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While restatements themselves aren't legally binding, they're very influential and often help shape judicial opinions.
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Such bulletins, while not legally binding, are treated seriously by the airlines, Mr. Millam said.
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The challenge was accepted on Twitter, which I'm pretty sure is a legally binding contract.
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Amendments are not legally binding, but do exert political pressure on May to change course.
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Under the Paris agreement, countries aren't required to submit legally binding plans for reducing emissions.
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Second, while the PSMA is legally binding, there are no penalties for failing to comply.
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In exchange, she made a legally binding promise to never speak of their encounter again.
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Rulings by the court are legally binding, but it has no way of enforcing them.
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In New York State, only clergy members or public officials can perform legally binding marriages.
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But, unlike the Kyoto Protocol, there are no legally binding terms in the Paris agreement.
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The decision was not legally binding and Tokyo plans to press ahead with the relocation.
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The resolution on Jerusalem would not be legally binding, so the vote is largely symbolic.
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Any amendments will not be legally binding and so cannot automatically change the government's course.
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The new memo is influential, because it guides decision making, but is not legally binding.
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Theresa May secures new "legally binding" assurances from the European Union on her Brexit deal.
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It also said the report to be produced by the commission would not be legally binding.
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It's a charming document, but ultimately toothless: Language in the memorandum contains no legally binding obligations.
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The withdrawal agreement, a legally binding treaty that includes the Irish backstop, will not be rewritten.
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But the US hasn't ratified it yet — and a legally binding treaty remains out of reach.
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With Brussels still rejecting any legally binding end-point to the backstop, such hopes seem forlorn.
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However, the COSPAR rules are not legally binding, so NASA does not have to follow them.
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However, that seems to be more of a formality and personal pledge than anything legally binding.
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"This is a legally binding document," explained a Lebanese judicial source with knowledge of the case.
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While Orcel's lawyers say the letter is legally binding, Santander argues that Orcel wasn't formally hired.
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The document, only parts of which are legally binding, was signed on January 28 this year.
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Once that's done, the treaty will be legally binding and can be enforced through trade sanctions.
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The argument is, first, that the June 23rd referendum was not legally binding, which is correct.
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No-action letters are not legally binding, even on the Commission; hence the need for legislation.
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Kerry said the ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration was legally binding, and not irrelevant.
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Fabric's team worked with leading estate planning law firms to create a template that's legally binding.
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"The conviction is therefore now legally binding," the Federal Court of Justice said in a statement.
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A position of last resort, the controversial "backstop" plan is essentially a legally-binding insurance policy.
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Even though it is not legally binding, the transition agreement is seen as important for Mrs.
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The legally-binding agreement closely tracks factory safety upgrades in the country and issues quarterly reports.
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The country has a legally binding goal of reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
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The "legally binding hard-copy signed versions" are the most important, said Keckler from Ameriprise Financial.
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Many leaders are pushing to make the Paris agreement legally binding years earlier than originally expected.
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But those agreements suffer from a critical weakness: They're voluntary pacts, not legally binding international treaties.
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The government has set a legally binding target to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
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Democrats say the resolution is legally binding, but Republicans say has no teeth without Trump's signature.
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They married, but, because the ceremony was only a religious one, it was not legally binding.
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First of all, it should be said that the Premier League charter was not legally binding.
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He also said it was "impossible" for the ruling to become irrelevant because it is legally binding.
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There's just one major problem: Like past measures, the result of the vote is not legally binding.
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Britain has a legally binding target to cut emissions by 80 percent on 1990 levels by 2050.
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She is looking to convince the bloc to consider making legally binding changes to the Brexit deal.
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi would not comment on whether Beijing supported the code being legally binding.
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The Obama-era regulation was not legally binding, but Monday's proposal would be if it is adopted.
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Its core capital is above minimum requirements and the breach concerns a non-legally binding capital threshold.
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International norms aimed at preventing abuses are not legally binding, allowing businesses to ignore them, HRW said.
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The girl's father pardoned his son, though it wasn't legally binding as the state decided to intervene.
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In December, ministers from 195 countries adopted a legally binding agreement in Paris to fight climate change.
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Because those benefits are legally binding, taxpayers are ultimately on the hook to make up that shortfall.
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Sechin said the deal was now practically completed after a legally binding deal was signed on Wednesday.
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Failing that, they want a legally binding assurance from Brussels that the backstop will only be temporary.
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Britain has a legally binding target to cut emissions by 80 percent from 1990 levels by 2050.
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Several ASEAN countries want the code to be legally binding, enforceable and have a dispute resolution mechanism.
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Melrose had already made a series of legally binding commitments about GKN's future ahead of the takeover.
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Although the vote is not legally binding, lawmakers hope it will pressure the European Union to act.
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It is the first global legally binding treaty with an internationally agreed definition of trafficking in persons.
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This would make us incredibly nervous, because we could get kicked out without any legally-binding agreement.
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And while its ratings are not legally binding, some automakers view them as a public relations mandate.
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The strictures of the new monitoring group would not be legally binding for brands and factory owners.
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The revised regulation is legally binding and has been signed by 196 countries, including the United States.
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Cohousing communities are most commonly set up as homeowners' associations, with residents adhering to legally binding bylaws.
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Although they're typically not legally binding, the ceremonies have become a big hit with adventure-seeking couples.
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This legally binding document requires an executor, someone in charge of making sure your wishes are followed.
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There is a government guideline advising against the confiscation of passports but it is not legally binding.
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For example, these constitutional limits apply only to "legally binding pacts," according to the U.S. State Department.
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"The Paris Agreement among nations isn't legally binding, but most countries will implement it anyway," Tamminen said.
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Britain is rejecting an EU push to negotiate a broad and legally binding defence and security treaty.
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She pressed for "legally binding changes" at talks with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Wednesday.
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Legally binding rules have been agreed to enable EU governments to effectively tackle harmful tax avoidance practices.
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Without drastic steps, Fiat risks missing Europe's legally binding 2021 carbon dioxide targets and may face fines.
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Second, Congress could grant tribes legally binding or exclusive rights to manage antiquities sites within the monument.
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While the order is not legally binding, schools could risk losing federal funding if they don't comply.
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But Lajcak predicted that even though it isn&apost legally binding it will change the way the world looks at the migration issue — just as the U.N. goals for 2030 that also aren&apost legally binding have mobilized the world to tackle poverty, promote development and preserve the environment.
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While his ultimate decision will not be legally binding in California, it could influence the legal arguments there.
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An executive order is legally binding, and written into the official journal of the government, the Federal Register.
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While Security Council resolutions are legally binding, General Assembly resolutions are not, although they do reflect international opinion.
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Because the referendum is not legally-binding, some politicians are suggesting a parliament vote before formally triggering Brexit.
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Although the councils are not legally binding, their power outweighs the legal system within cultural and religious contexts.
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Any such amendments would not be legally binding on the government, but would prove politically hard to ignore.
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The text of executive orders that are stored in the Federal Register reflects their final, legally binding language.
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Mrs May came back with legally binding documents from the EU promising that this outcome was highly unlikely.
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There is more openness over the accompanying political declaration about the future relationship, which is not legally binding.
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Although, unlike a judgement from the European Court of Human Rights, Anderson's opinion will not be legally binding.
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The prime minister's crime had been to attempt to set legally binding targets to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
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Little did you know that under Twitter's terms of use, the word "hereby" makes whatever follows legally binding.
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ECHR rulings are legally binding, but there have been many instances in which Turkey has not implemented them.
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A source told PEOPLE, however, that the ceremony was not legally binding, so they were never officially married.
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If an artist leaves, it pays to have a legally binding contract that spells out every possible outcome.
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The president's proposal is more of a guideline — a setting of priorities — rather than a legally binding document.
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Britain already has a legally binding target to cut emissions by 80 percent on 1990 levels by 2050.
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Including 1701, the U.N. Security Council has passed at least three legally-binding resolutions calling for Hezbollah's disarmament.
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While the ruling in The Hague is regarded as legally binding, there is no mechanism to enforce it.
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This global accord calls on countries to cut their greenhouse gas emissions, but the reductions aren't legally binding.
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Specifically, he said it's entered into a legally binding decision to double employees over the next five years.
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Seeking to quell such worries, Melrose made a series of legally binding commitments about GKN's future this week.
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The U.N. resolution is not legally binding, but would exert political pressure on Trump to reverse his decision.
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Fun fact: Brexit, the United Kingdom's narrow vote to exit the European Union, is not actually legally binding.
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The commission's recommendations, due in December, would be legally binding unless the Legislature convened specifically to overrule them.
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Most analysts believe that European leaders are highly unlikely to reopen the 585-page, legally binding withdrawal deal.
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While this decision sets a European precedent, it is not legally binding in other parts of the world.
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But, he added, the United States supports the rule of law, and the tribunal's decision is legally binding.
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It's important to note that this is just a written opinion by the state's AG, and isn't legally binding.
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While the guidelines are not legally binding, they do spell out the federal government's position on housing transgender inmates.
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Amendments are not legally binding on the government but can put political pressure on the government to change course.
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She says on the day of the ceremony they both knew full well it wasn't a legally binding marriage.
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While those are not legally binding recommendations, the Commission hopes it will lead to national legislation regarding 5G rollouts.
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Scharmer said the verdict against Hanning is not legally binding as appeals were still pending at Germany's highest court.
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The service can issue legally binding proofs for all your sensitive documents, and these proofs live on the blockchain.
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Here again, however, payments due on general-obligation bonds come first, followed by payments due on legally binding contracts.
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Nevertheless, the government succeeded in disrupting what Mr Puigdemont's administration had originally hoped would be a "legally binding" referendum.
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Any such vote would not be legally binding as Italy's constitution bans referendums on matters governed by international treaties.
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The settlement was reached through an arbitration process under the legally-binding Bangladesh Accord for Fire and Building Safety.
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It should be noted that none of the options are legally binding and have not been agreed by Europe.
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These commitments are not legally binding, but supporters expected that even voluntary targets will spur countries to take action.
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She says on the day of the marriage ceremony they knew full well it wasn't a legally binding marriage.
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Bloomberg pointed out that while the tribunal's decision is legally binding, it may not be able to enforce it.
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The legally-binding divorce deal she has negotiated would give business much-needed certainty about the next two years.
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While not every wedding will be legally binding, they will be officiated by certified civil servants in formal locations.
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The establishment of a legally binding peace treaty would require the approval of two-thirds of the US Senate.
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He added that the guarantees would need to confirm North Korea's sovereignty and be legally binding, according to Reuters.
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Kyoto's other major flaw was that although it was legally binding, no one was ever sanctioned for over-polluting.
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No. "If a person signed up to be a registered donor that is a legally binding agreement," Klassen says.
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The report contains no hint that the group favors any legally binding measures by the United Nations Security Council.
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Norway, for example, is a country that for decades has defied a legally-binding global moratorium on commercial whaling.
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The attorneys could let the documents "drop on the floor" and they would still be legally binding, Cogan said.
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He argues for a legally binding framework with harsh penalties (criminal liability) for playing fast and loose with data.
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This is the first legally binding international measure to stop what's known as "illegal, unreported, and unregulated" (IUU) fishing.
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He declined to go into any specifics about the kind of legally binding changes Cox was trying to secure.
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At the meeting, some members of the board disputed whether the vote was legally binding without the board's approval.
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The U.K. has adopted legally binding European commitments to reduce a selection of air pollutants by 2020 and 2030.
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That has left the EU talking up the declaration, which is not legally binding, as an already agreed blueprint.
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One is making any code legally binding—for instance, by lodging it with the UN; China would oppose that.
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European leaders will greet any attempt to rewrite the 585-page, legally binding withdrawal agreement with a resounding no.
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However, while it might not be a legally binding union, it is part of a growing self-empowerment movement.
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Britain has a legally binding target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent compared with 1990 levels by 2050.
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But it has not said whether it would accept the OAS' condition for the audit's conclusions to be legally-binding.
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But unlike desulphurisation, which is both imminent and legally binding, the CO22 target looks fuzzy and lacks any enforcement mechanism.
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But they have not said whether they would accept the OAS' condition for the audit's conclusions to be legally-binding.
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The decision was not legally binding as the final decision to leave the ICC would be taken by individual nations.
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There are good people involved, they just haven't been empowered to be able to make decisions that are legally binding.
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McCarthy said her determination, a legally binding decision to maintain the fuel efficiency rules, rested on an extensive technical record.
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He seemed focused on the girl's expressed desire, even though she was too young to write a legally binding will.
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Foster refused to say whether the deal would have to be renegotiated or whether she would accept legally binding assurances.
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It described the accord, which aims to set standards for safe and orderly migration, as politically rather than legally binding.
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Listed companies are required to report how they have applied the main principles, although the code is not legally binding.
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It is the first time in history, that security tokens can be offered and traded in a legally binding way.
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And it remains the sole judge interpreting and applying policies that aren't at all legally binding; so sham regulation then.
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Guidance is not supposed to be legally binding, but if your business needs a permit, your choices may be slim.
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And while both votes have been authorized by the relevant state institutions, the referendum results will not be legally binding.
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Tattoos, while clearly administered with a patient's wishes, aren't legally binding, and are usually considered too ambiguous to act upon.
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It could eventually lead to a legally binding agreement with the city imposing significant changes in how the police operate.
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The nations themselves got to decide by how much they'd actually do that, and the accord was not legally binding.
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I'm glad we made our little family as safe and sound and legally binding as possible — googled vows and all.
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China and Russia have proposed a legally binding treaty that would ban the use of force or weapons in space.
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A term sheet is not a legally binding document, so the megafund acted within its rights to cancel a deal.
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"We're not going back to work without a legally binding agreement," said Jesse Sharkey, the union president, on Monday night.
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The GAO's findings are not legally binding, but its reports are seen by lawmakers as objective, reliable and generally uncontested.
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But it added that the memorandum was not legally binding and did not prevent it from negotiating with other parties.
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Compliance offsets are used to meet legally binding caps on carbon in schemes like the European Union's Emissions Trading System.
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The settlement, announced on Thursday, includes a legally binding consent decree to ensure that Native American voters are not disenfranchised.
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The EU executive will unveil a 'climate law' next week to make the 2050 net zero emissions target legally binding.
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Kaine's resolution would be legally binding but would need Trump's signature — setting Congress up for a veto showdown with Trump.
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He sees an argument to be made that the waivers signed by the athletes before the combine are legally binding.
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Under current constitutional arrangements, any legally binding vote on secession would have to be sanctioned by Britain's parliament at Westminster.
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These are examples of important issues for which the Supreme Court has made legally binding rulings over the past decade.
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The General Assembly resolution is not legally binding, and the U.S. would not be obligated to abide by the measure.
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But the Paris accord isn't a legally binding treaty — it hasn't been ratified by the Senate, and it's effectively voluntary.
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" "Legally binding will be a bit difficult ... Let's see if we can find something from the legal side as well.
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And, in reality, that is a legally binding treaty obligation of the United States whether Trump likes it or not.
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"(The) backstop has to be removed with a legally binding commitment to no hard border," Wilson said on RTE radio.
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It could, and likely will, be argued that since the commitments made in Paris are not legally binding, they do not show enough reciprocity to justify legally binding regulations in the US. Or one can imagine many other routes of legal attack, all of which would be tried if this became a real possibility.
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It is the most basic principle of contract law: Once a contract is signed, judges have ruled, it is legally binding.
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That will not be legally binding and leaves huge scope for the kind of detailed trade negotiation that usually takes years.
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They will not be legally binding but could provide a basis if the EU executive decides to enact rules in future.
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We would be happy to accept a legally binding commitment to this effect and hope that the EU would do likewise.
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Guidance issued by federal agencies is not legally binding, but serves as a blueprint for how agencies will enforce federal laws.
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"This post I made on my phone shall stand as a legally binding document, in perpetuity throughout the universe," he concluded.
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The EU will launch negotiations on a legally binding trade treaty only once Britain becomes a non-member or "third country".
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So I understand why some people would think it's helpful to discourage young couples from rushing into a legally binding contract.
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The remaining 27 EU nations insist that the legally binding withdrawal agreement struck with May's government in November can't be renegotiated.
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On 2023th March United Nations Kicked off five-day conference to negotiate on a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons.
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The idea was that it would soon be turned into a legally binding code, and so minimise the risk of conflict.
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The committee's rulings are not legally binding, but could play a role in the decisions of French courts, according to Reuters.
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The Brexit vote is not legally binding, and there are a few ways that it could theoretically be blocked or overturned.
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The good news is that the recent proposal is not legally binding and must go through a full public rulemaking process.
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The fact of the matter is had there been legally binding changes at treaty level we could have been in business.
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Despite Paul and Mongeau's marriage not being legally binding on paper, Paul also told ET Live it was, in fact, real.
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World leaders made promises to limit global warming to below 2°C in the first legally binding agreement of its kind.
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Because the Kigali amendment is part of the legally binding Montreal treaty, the Senate must vote on whether to ratify it.
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These so-called amendments will be submitted in advance and, even if approved by a majority, will not be legally binding.
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Last month, Britain became the first G7 economy to enshrine a legally binding commitment to net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
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Colombia does not use escrow accounts, but the purchase agreement is "legally binding to the parties and enforceable," Ms. Pizano said.
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The club claimed it was not liable to pay F.C. Nantes for Mr. Sala because the deal was not legally binding.
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So-called altruistic, or unpaid, surrogacy arrangements are not viewed as criminal, but such agreements are not legally binding or enforceable.
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After each side gives their explanation, the TV personality will offer up her verdict — which, by the way, is legally binding.
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And it would make Oregon the second state after New York with a legally binding, economy-wide greenhouse gas reduction target.
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But as the new coronavirus spreads, dozens of countries — the W.H.O. won't say which — are flouting its legally binding reporting requirements.
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The most recent proposal, though not yet legally binding, suggests the firms take down extremist content within two hours of posting.
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The agreement itself is legally binding; but the provisions for nations to meet climate goals within the climate deal are not.
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The next steps for the merger include the boards of both companies reaching a legally binding agreement and approval from regulators.
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Britain wants "legally binding" obligations on access to the EU financial market coupled with arrangements for maintaining trust as rules evolve.
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That means Trump does not have to sign it, but it also calls into question whether it would be legally binding.
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This was an obvious issue, yet the New Yorker expressed little emotion and simply reiterated that those were legally binding agreements.
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Like a loan, it is a legally binding contract that obligates students to make monthly payments until their obligation is fulfilled.
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House Democrats are arguing that concurrent resolutions under the War Powers Act are a special case, and they are legally binding.
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That's more expensive than most legislation Congress passes, and just like legislation, regulations are legally binding unless successfully challenged in court.
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The edict is not legally binding, as Indonesia is not an Islamic state and it has a secular Constitution and government.
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The proposal starts by setting a legally binding target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions across the US economy by 2050.
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O'Rourke called for a legally binding net-zero emissions standard by 22020 and supports cap-and-trade over a carbon tax.
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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said though the bill was not legally binding and seriously violates the "one China" principle.
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The proposal starts by setting a legally binding target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions across the US economy by 244.
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A Brexit vote is not legally binding, and there are a few ways that it could theoretically be blocked or overturned.
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Their decision, CNN reported, is not legally binding because the West Hollywood City Council has no jurisdiction over the Walk of Fame.
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The summons to give evidence before the parliamentary committee or Congress are not legally binding, but they are significant for other reasons.
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At any rate, a concession speech isn't legally binding, so if the recount goes Gillum's way, he can just take it back.
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And it entrenches in legally-binding form the commitments made in the exchange of letters with Presidents Tusk and Juncker in January.
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Love is in the air in 2019 and, for certain stars, their love will possibly be made into a legally binding agreement.
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China has long rejected a legally binding agreement—or indeed any arrangement that could limit its actions in the South China Sea.
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R+L=J is confirmed yet again, but now, it looks like Jon may have been conceived under legally binding marital oaths.
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The source said Ottawa would drop the requirement that firms give a legally binding guarantee they would spend the money in Canada.
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In December 2015, 195 countries, including the UK and Australia, signed the Paris Agreement, a legally binding agreement to reduce carbon emissions.
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Demougeot said local authorities across France had re-housed thousands of Roma evictees, but acknowledged the 2012 guidance was not legally binding.
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However, Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and others in Trump's orbit nevertheless viewed the treaty as legally binding.
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Monday's joint statement described the ruling as "legally binding on both parties" and urged the Philippines and China to abide by it.
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Legal experts argue that since there is technically no infringement of copyright on the name, the case may not be legally binding.
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The decision, CNN reported, is not legally binding because the West Hollywood City Council has no jurisdiction over the Walk of Fame.
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"Ive underlined the need for us to see legally binding changes to the backstop which ensure it cannot be indefinite," May said.
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A full bench of 11 judges ruled that the president had breached the constitution by failing to follow her legally binding recommendations.
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The accord is a legally-binding agreement by which brands must shoulder the costs of improving health and safety in Bangladeshi factories.
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Only after Ms. Merkel's spokesman formally announced that the parliamentary resolution was not legally binding, were they granted the right to visit.
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While some portions of the Paris Agreement are legally binding, the specific actions taken by countries to reduce their emissions are voluntary.
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With only a year remaining in the Obama administration, there is a shrinking window to complete new legally binding auto safety rules.
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"I wouldn't want to do it on paper because I think legally binding yourself to someone takes away the love," she said.
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While a term sheet isn't a legally binding document, it has the potential to shape every future round of funding you raise.
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While Taiwan's Central Election Commission said the referendum is legally binding, there is debate on whether or not the result is enforceable.
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The world body controls the U.N. budget, adopts treaties and passes numerous resolutions that while not legally binding generally reflect global opinion.
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"I've underlined the need for us to see legally binding changes to the backstop which ensure it cannot be indefinite," May said.
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While the Socialists support a federal model and wanted to avoid a referendum, Podemos backs a legally binding vote on Catalan independence.
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As part of the deal, Georgia gave LexisNexis exclusive rights to official "annotations" that elaborate on the law but aren't legally binding.
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In fact, the British plan had been to start discussions that might conclude in a couple of weeks on legally binding commitments.
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And unlike the legally binding withdrawal treaty spelling out divorce terms, it remains a matter still open to negotiation with the bloc.
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"We now have the president actively discouraging witnesses from coming in to answer a legally binding subpoena from Congress," Ocasio-Cortez added.
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While some earn a great deal of attention — like one in 1975 that equated Zionism with racism — they are not legally binding.
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Mr. Trump argued that this change to the waiting period's duration would not be legally binding under a 1983 Supreme Court case.
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The growth of the regulatory state — the unelected branch of U.S. government that writes and enforces legally binding rules — is well-documented.
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But under the Paris deal, those numerical targets are not legally binding, and there are no sanctions for failing to meet them.
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Rather than continue the quest for legally binding targets, it simply asked countries to submit voluntary commitments, or nationally determined contributions (NDCs).
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To spark action, the European Commission, the executive arm of the EU, needs to introduce legislation to make its goals legally binding.
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For Scotland to hold another legally binding referendum, the British Parliament would have to give its approval, as would the Scottish Parliament.
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Given the long-standing concerns, some safety advocates are asking why the EPA hasn't acted faster to set the legally-binding limits.
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Yet a confidential, legally binding document detailing the agreement showed that Mr. Deripaska and his allies would retain majority ownership of EN+.
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It meets three times a year to examine rights issues around the world and can pass resolutions, though they aren't legally binding.
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Some auditing initiatives, such as the legally binding Bangladesh Fire Safety Accord, which shuttered hundreds of unsafe factories, have made a real difference.
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In addition to intimidation and dependence, Trump used legally binding nondisclosure agreements to make sure that those who knew his secrets didn't talk.
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The referendum was not legally binding, but a turnout of 50% of voters had been specified as needed to make the result valid.
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She is now seeking legally-binding changes before she takes her divorce deal back for a second vote in parliament by March 12.
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The trick will be to find a link that seems legally binding between the withdrawal agreement and a future UK wide customs union.
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Opponents maintain that since the EU referendum result is not legally binding, elected lawmakers should review the vote before the process is started.
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Britain's vote to leave the EU is not legally binding, and there are a few ways it could theoretically be blocked or overturned.
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Its findings are a symbolic victory for Mr. Assange, but they are not legally binding and may have limited, if any, practical significance.
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EU leaders may accept new language in the 26-page political declaration about the future relationship with Britain, which is not legally binding.
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Since the two companies have chosen to sign a memorandum, their partnership isn't legally binding and it's unclear if any financials are involved.
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Membership does not necessitate any legally binding promises, but companies who join PAI must "believe in and endeavor to uphold" eight key tenets.
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However, most DIY solutions don't have room for complicated real-life situations, and if they aren't executed properly, may not be legally binding.
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But even then, the legally binding text itself, which forms the crux of the debate in Britain, would be off limits to renegotiation.
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Unlike the Paris deal, which included broad, voluntary pledges to cut emissions, the Rwanda deal covers a single pollutant and is legally binding.
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"EMA's recommendation to suspend Zinbryta and recall the product is being sent to the European Commission for a legally binding decision," it said.
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Under federal law, whenever the FCC intends to set forth new, legally binding rules, it is required to give notice to the public.
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Britain has made a legally binding commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 percent from a 1990 baseline by 2050.
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Morrison began doing a recurring Ask Me Anything on the /r/Gamedev subreddit, offering general (but not legally binding) advice and answering questions.
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At stake are what the FDA calls "standards of identity," legally binding definitions of products to ensure consumers know what they are getting.
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One Brexit-supporting lawmaker in May's party said May would have to achieve legally binding treaty change to get support for her deal.
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Will Facebook take action against Cambridge for breaching their legally binding document, and when will Zuck do a formal interview with Kara Swisher?
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In reality, the plan is not legally binding and provides few guidelines to reduce pollutants in the country, FGE and Woodmac analysts said.
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Yan Yipan has transformed his law firm into an intermediary that connects borrowers and creditors, helping to structure legally binding deals between them.
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McCarthy said in a statement her determination, a legally binding decision to maintain the fuel efficiency rules, rests on an extensive technical record.
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Simply download and print out the below legally binding Friendship Contract and badger a friend, loved one, or nearby animal to sign it.
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Daniels, 39, and her lawyer are arguing in a lawsuit that the agreement is not legally binding because Trump never signed the document.
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Workers' rights are also expected to be hit, after Johnson removed legally binding commitments to retain existing EU work regulations from the agreement.
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Without this treaty, there will be no legally binding, verifiable limits on U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles for the first time since 1972.
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The UN group's decision isn't legally binding, and the Metropolitan Police said Thursday that Assange would be arrested if he leaves the embassy.
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The draft states as long as consumers received "reasonable notice" and had "reasonable opportunity to review" it, the contract would be legally binding.
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John Bergmayer, Senior Counsel at consumer group Public Knowledge, told Motherboard that while restatements may not be legally binding they are hugely influential.
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The memorandum is not legally binding, however, Norway's central bank, the finance ministry and the financial supervisory authority said in a joint statement.
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"This political commitment (must be) backed up by legislation that provides legally binding authorization for all of CEU's operations in Budapest," Ignatieff said.
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Being labeled as fiduciary would mean that these broker-dealers can be held to a standard of conduct through a legally binding contract.
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"The parties are working on the legally binding definitive documents to be signed," Nio Founder and Chief Executive Officer William Bin Li said.
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Although the Lahore clerics' fatwa is not legally binding, it also recommended that people consider harassment of transgender people a crime under Islam.
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"In almost all states, there are no legal hurdles to getting ordained online and performing a legally binding wedding ceremony," Mr. King said.
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"The parties are working on the legally binding definitive documents to be signed," Nio Founder and Chief Executive Officer William Bin Li said.
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Britain said it wants legally binding obligations on access to the EU financial market coupled with arrangements for maintaining trust as rules evolve.
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The future The ruling from The international Court of Justice last week is not legally binding, meaning Britain could choose to ignore it.
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The legally-binding text comes just days before May is scheduled to make her most eagerly anticipated speech on Brexit since last year.
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" May told members of Parliament after the vote Tuesday that her government "will now take this mandate forward and seek ... legally binding changes.
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Although not legally binding, the resolution could raise tensions with Russia just as the U.S. is bent on maintaining the cease-fire. Rep.
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A legally binding Security Council resolution, which included a call to halt indiscriminate attacks on civilians and a lifting of sieges, has been flouted.
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But the leaders approved May's withdrawal agreement, which is a 1.403-page, legally-binding document setting out the terms of the U.K.'s exit.
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But while the referendum vote is not legally binding, the country is very likely to leave the Union at some point in the future.
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Needless to say, these proceedings are taken bizarrely seriously, as if wearing a white dress in a picture constitutes a legally binding marriage contract.
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Any promises made during takeovers would be legally binding, and the government would gain the power to pause the process to allow greater scrutiny.
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A legally binding minimum wage hasn't been set in Italy, where the average income people earn lies around €2,585 (or $2,934 USD) a month.
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There could be multiple votes which, although not legally binding, would be hard to ignore if they reveal backing for an alternative exit arrangement.
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The EU has always insisted it won't reopen the deal, though it may be willing to attach some (legally binding) assurances about the backstop.
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But they are clear that they will not reopen negotiations over the legally binding text of the Brexit withdrawal agreement in any significant way.
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The vote was not legally binding so from a technical standpoint the government and parliament have no legal obligation to proceed with a Brexit.
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The amendment makes it legally binding for countries to protect nuclear facilities, as well as the domestic use, storage and transportation of nuclear material.
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Hill faced scepticism from several lawmakers over the legally binding nature of the UK settlement, and its ability to protect the City of London.
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Business leaders echoed a warning from Barnier that the deal will only be legally binding if London ratifies the whole withdrawal treaty by March.
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Carter's split from Jenner came just one year after the couple's intimate Indonesian wedding, which a source later told PEOPLE was not legally binding.
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Although there has been a proven track record of liquidity support by IsDB, there is no legally binding support mechanism to address capital shortages.
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On the legislative front, Biden calls for a bill that creates "legally binding" emissions cuts with an "enforcement mechanism" to achieve the 2050 goal.
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In order for it to become legally binding, 55 nations representing at least 55 percent of global emissions need to formally ratify the treaty.
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Those include broad terms and vague language that require clarification, with many of its articles reading more like policy commitments than legally binding clauses.
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In a supposedly legally binding letter to Apple, authorities say they're giving the company one month to comply before they enforce punishment for violations.
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Britain's opposition Labour Party has offered to support the government's Brexit deal if she makes five legally binding commitments – including joining a customs union.
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It is a legally-binding treaty and remains as valid today as it did when it was signed and ratified over thirty years ago.
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The consortium, called Connect, said on Thursday it had voluntarily agreed legally-binding undertakings with the government regarding the British operations of the business.
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"For ASEAN, such a framework must have substantial elements, and such a code of conduct must be legally binding," he said in an interview.
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Typically, the founders' and investors' lawyers will use the term sheet to draft other, legally binding documents, including stock-purchase agreements and shareholder agreements.
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Though the code itself isn't legally binding, companies have to declare why they're not following it, which puts pressure on them to do so.
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It's since come out that Paul and Mongeau's marriage isn't legally binding on paper, but they insist that the love between them is real.
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"We are not here to break legally binding project agreements," he told reporters when asked if he would consider reviewing the Exxon LNG deal.
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Under the law of the sea treaty that China has ratified, the decision is legally binding, but there is no mechanism to enforce it.
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"We conducted intensive negotiations with Midea and ensured that the announced assurances have now been made legally binding," said Till Reuter, Kuka's chief executive.
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And automakers may be able to raise the voluntary agreement to argue against future proposed regulations, saying the accord makes legally binding rules unnecessary.
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The human rights court ordered the Russian government to pay damages and reimburse his legal costs, a ruling that is legally binding on Russia.
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The European Union (minus Britain, which, aloof, stays out of these things) just agreed to a legally binding rule on the presumption of innocence.
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While not legally binding, the motion passed with consensus, and therefore the UN was provided limited power to endorse an open internet (OI) system.
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While some of them earn a great deal of attention — like one in 1975 that equated Zionism with racism — they are not legally binding.
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The United States has only informally committed to participate in the program, and the new administration could refuse to make that commitment legally binding.
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The second would set a legally binding, maximum allowable drinking water level for PFOS and PFOA, two of the most common forms of PFAS.
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May's proposal, but this time there was a twist: Lawmakers were only voting on the withdrawal agreement, the legally binding part of the deal.
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While their opinions are not legally binding, their voices are influential and tend to have a strong impact on the decisions of the court.
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But EU diplomats said that the latter took a year to agree and that giving May anything legally binding at this stage was tricky.
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While some of them earn a great deal of attention — like one in 25 that equated Zionism with racism — they are not legally binding.
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Jonathan Wilkinson has also been tasked with setting Canada on a path to net-zero emissions by 2050, with legally binding five-year targets.
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How is it possible then to make a wise decision about entering into a legally binding partnership, one that is meant to be permanent?
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NGOs tried to enlist brands to sign a legally binding agreement to improve factory safety, but only two — PVH and Tchibo of Germany — joined.
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That understanding, which was not legally binding but was widely followed, prevented universities from competing for applicants by offering more enticing financial aid packages.
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Climate emergency Earlier this year, the UK declared a climate emergency and set itself a legally binding target of becoming carbon neutral by 2050.
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That timing has already been rejected by Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain, who must agree to any legally binding referendum on Scotland's future.
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The resolutions are not legally binding, CNN noted, and instead serve as declarations of support for citizens to exercise the right to carry weapons.
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With the United States imposing tariffs and threatening the legally binding Nafta treaty, Freeland believed much larger and more troubling issues had been raised.
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Both Mr. Tusk and Mr. Varadkar on Wednesday reiterated their support for the backstop and their opposition to reopening the legally binding withdrawal agreement.
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But rather than a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system, O'Rourke is anchoring a legally binding net-zero emissions standard by 22050.
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Though not legally binding unless and until it forms part of an overall withdrawal treaty, leaders hope a transition deal can calm nerves among investors.
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However, fatwas are not legally binding and the council is not an officially elected government body, meaning the impact of the ruling could be limited.
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The guidelines are not legally binding, and there's no oversight mechanism to determine whether they are read by doctors or medical personnel, such as midwives.
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Not to mention, unethical sellers or agents could artificially inflate the price of a home through shill bidding, as an offer is not legally binding.
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The vote, which begins tomorrow and continues through Sunday, isn't legally binding, but Lopez Obrador has pledged to honor the result when he becomes president.
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"This is the best way to create legally binding commitments with countries that we want to respect our environmental standards," said Commission spokeswoman Mina Andreeva.
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Ruamsin and Kachainrum had a symbolic wedding ceremony that is not legally binding since Pitchaya is under 17, the legal age for marriage in Thailand.
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Cayetano said they had identified common issues before discussing contentious provisions, such as whether the code would be legally binding and include sanctions against offenders.
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Cameron says it gives Britain "special status" by explicitly exempting it from closer political integration, spelled out in legally binding guarantees of future treaty change.
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Once your legal documents are ready, you'll usually need two witnesses to sign them, as well as a notary public to make them legally binding.
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The Washington state attorney general's office says the changes will be implemented nationwide, while the agreement will be legally binding in the state of Washington.
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Ensuring that reforms are legally binding and amount to a lasting change in the EU treaties has become a touchstone of domestic credibility for Cameron.
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Senior minister David Lidington announced Monday that May had clinched "legally binding" changes to her Brexit deal in her bid to win last minute support.
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Thanks to federal guidance documents (which aren't legally binding but carry heavy threats including the loss of federal funding), schools are forced to adjudicate accusations.
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The backstop plan is essentially a legally-binding insurance policy to ensure there is no hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
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"Legally binding rules are the only realistic way to ensure that companies don't exploit workers or contribute to labor abuses," Kippenberg said in a statement.
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"Message to Chinese govt: good relations between countries are based on mutual respect and honoring the legally binding agreements between them," Hunt said on Twitter.
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"There remains in place a legally-binding settlement agreement that was agreed to by the arbitrating parties," Mubadala said in an emailed statement to Reuters.
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Much like President Donald Trump's backing out of the Paris climate agreement, which was a similarly voluntary process, there is little here that's legally binding.
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In England, for example, we need the ability to place an offer on a property that's legally binding, subject to conditions like a property inspection.
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However fatwas are not legally binding and the council is not an officially elected government body, meaning the impact of the ruling could be limited.
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Britain has a legally binding target to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, blamed for global warming, by 80 percent by 2050 compared with 1990 levels.
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They could be forced into legally binding agreement that mandate minimum or maximum working hours and limit their shifts to certain days or set times.
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Obviously, Twitter is not a legally binding contract, but here she was, publicly declaring she was going to donate a small fortune to St. Jude's.
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The quartet's nine-page report contains no hint that the group favors any legally binding measures by its members or the United Nations Security Council.
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According to the text produced by the IMO working group submitted to member states, the initial strategy would not be legally binding for member states.
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In a video posted Monday, Mongeau said that the wedding itself wasn't legally binding on paper, but that the relationship between the couple is real.
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You can use it craft eye-catching proposals that clients can't say "no" to, and legally-binding contracts that allow for easy and secure signing.
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"I believe we would all be better off … if this informal tradition were transformed into something more substantial, well-defined and legally binding," he said.
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The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is a legally binding international agreement that was approved by 22009 United Nation members this past July.
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"Executive action" is a catch-all phrase for policy pronouncements originating from the White House; executive orders are legally binding directives, like the Emancipation Proclamation.
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YouTubers Jake Paul and Tana Mongeau wed in a wild Las Vegas ceremony on July 28, but it's unclear if the union is legally binding.
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President Obama on Friday signed a new directive regarding United States policy toward Cuba, enshrining his push to normalize relations in a legally binding document.
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Short of a convincing mea culpa or granting unprecedented access to international chemical weapons investigators, Russia has little means of escaping these legally binding sanctions.
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A lawyer can be useful for drawing up a legally binding preliminary sale and purchase agreement, ideally before a notary is involved, Mr. Dingli said.
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Taiwan has introduced same-sex marriage -- and although Japan hasn't done the same, some cities issue same-sex partnership certificates, though they're not legally binding.
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The LegalFling app, which lets users set out which practices they are and are not comfortable with, records sexual consent in a legally binding agreement.
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It would be a violation of the International Health Regulations, a legally binding treaty that covers how 195 countries respond to outbreaks like this one.
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The board will have meaningful independence from Facebook, and while its decisions will not be legally binding, Facebook is highly incentivized to follow its recommendations.
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The resolutions are not legally binding, but rather are declarations of support by county officials for local citizens to exercise their right to carry weapons.
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Mongeau and Paul got engaged in late June and got "married" a month later, although the wedding wasn't legally binding, so they're not technically married.
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Because advice or principles espoused by the Global Partnership wouldn't be legally binding, it's unclear how much the body really could constrain nations' AI programs.
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"Message to Chinese govt: good relations between countries are based on mutual respect and honouring the legally binding agreements between them," Hunt said on Twitter.
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There could be multiple votes which, although not legally binding, would be politically hard to ignore if they show support for an alternative exit arrangement.
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The memorandum of understanding isn't legally binding, and the details are likely still being worked out, but graduate researchers are concerned that the process isn't transparent.
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" Responding to his comments on Twitter, Hunt said that "good relations between countries are based on mutual respect and honoring the legally binding agreements between them.
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Forcadell earlier told the Supreme Court that the declaration was not legally binding, according to court sources, in a comment that could undermine the secessionist push.
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The Times said this had been interpreted by the Democratic Unionist Party as a sign that the clause will be inserted into the legally binding agreement.
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The deal that MPs voted on in January was not strong enough in making that clear - and legally binding changes were needed to set that right.
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"It is no possible sense of the word an infringement on state sovereignty - it is not legally binding, it's a framework for cooperation," she told Reuters.
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The NLRB's standard has had more of an impact than the labor department's because it is legally binding and requires joint employers to bargain with unions.
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Added to that, the TLAC requirement is currently only driven by the FSB final term-sheet and is not yet legally binding, said the credit analyst.
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Matthau said she agreed to a more than $2063,2053 settlement with Weinstein in exchange for a legally binding promise not to speak out about the allegations.
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Regardless of whether or not China is part of the Convention, the ruling is still legally binding, explained Isaac Kardon, visiting scholar at New York University.
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The central bank said the code of conduct was not legally binding, but hoped that firms that did not sign up to it would be shunned.
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The 34-page document is not legally binding, but it encourages governments to treat immigrants humanely, inform them of their rights and welcome them into society.
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The notice, which is not legally binding, asked all 192 Interpol member countries to hold Mr Fu on suspicion of espionage, theft and undermining state security.
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Speaking formally from the Rose Garden, Obama touted the Paris Agreement, which was struck last year and creates a legally binding agreement to fight climate change.
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Attorney General Geoffrey Cox, Britain's top government lawyer, is due back in Brussels on Tuesday and will seek legally binding changes to the Irish border backstop.
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These paper documents, signed by election officials and party agents at each of Kenya's voting stations, represent the final and legally binding outcome of the vote.
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However, officials have warned it could take a long time, with no agreement on whether the pact will be legally binding, raising doubts over its effectiveness.
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The newly amended Montreal Protocol, which is legally binding once ratified, will require rich countries like the United States to start cutting HFC use by 22024.
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"This decision is not yet legally binding as Rocha has 10 days in which to lodge an appeal with the Federal Supreme Court," the FOJ said.
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The EU wants to avoid repeated Brexit delays or more renegotiations of the legally binding Withdrawal Agreement, put together in months of painstaking talks with London.
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The directive is not legally binding, though conservatives said it opened the door for the federal government to block funding to schools that did not comply.
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In December, leaders met in Paris for the United Nations' COP21 climate change conference where they agreed to legally binding deal on limiting greenhouse gas emissions.
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Donors can restrict their tax-exempt gift to a legally-binding particular purpose, such as creating a chair, establishing a scholarship or building a new lab.
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In a first-person essay for Elle published Monday, the Hills star said that her relationship with Jenner was "very real" despite not being legally binding.
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Although the decisions it makes are not legally binding, meetings at the summit can set the agenda for crucial UN Security Council actions down the line.
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"What matters in all of this is legally-binding changes that ensure we address the concern that has been raised by this house," she told parliament.
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However, the lack of a legally binding commitment on that aspect means he will struggle to win the vast majority of potentially sympathetic Labour MPs over.
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We support policies at every level of government that are based in science, establish legally binding targets, and equitably move the economy away from fossil fuels.
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But critics believe the watered-down document, which failed to mention island militarization and may not even be legally binding once finalized, were victories for Beijing.
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"The attorney general continues with his work to ensure we get legally-binding changes to ensure that we are not locked in the backstop," Brokenshire said.
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Some cities in Japan have begun issuing "partnership" certificates to recognize same-sex couples and protect some of their rights, but they are not legally binding.
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One was the legally binding Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, which was largely for European brands likes H&M, Hugo Boss and Primark.
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Both created safety standards and mechanisms to enforce them, although the Accord, with a legally binding arbitration provision, was seen as the stronger of the two.
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In 1967, the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and other countries ratified an international treaty legally binding them to use outer space for peaceful purposes.
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The goal is to conclude the two-day gathering by issuing a joint statement committing its members to action, although the declaration is not legally binding.
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The 19-page draft remains vague in key areas including its precise geographic scope, whether it will be legally binding and how disputes will be resolved.
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We should be skeptical until they assure us they're not going to use this data for anything other than convenience in ways that are legally binding.
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The Senate in 1997 unanimously rejected the Kyoto Protocol because it demanded legally binding emissions cuts from industrialized countries while allowing developing nations to act voluntarily.
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Congress is now pushing toward legislation that would force the EPA to set legally binding limits on these chemicals in drinking water in two years. Sens.
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Rulings by the court, which is based in The Hague and settles disputes between nations, are legally binding, though it has no way of enforcing them.
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It also has legally-binding domestic goals to cut its greenhouse gas output which, if maintained after Brexit, would be aligned with the minimum EU aims.
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"The key Russian concern ... is that in the future, absent legally binding constraints, we will develop systems that could potentially negate their strategic deterrent," Rose said.
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This includes the requirement that advisors earning commissions on investments in retirement accounts sign a legally binding agreement putting their clients' interests ahead of their own.
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In December 2015, 195 countries agreed to a legally binding framework -- The Paris Agreement -- to achieve zero net carbon pollution by the end of the century.
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What I was saying was that there would be serious consequences if the legally binding international agreement between the UK and China, if that was violated.
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May's two-part plan for Britain's departure: a legally binding agreement laying down divorce terms from the bloc, and a much vaguer declaration on future ties.
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"It is a legally-binding treaty and remains as valid today as it did when it was signed and ratified over thirty years ago," Hunt said.
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In the meantime, Inslee's Department of Ecology has put in place a legally binding cap on carbon, under the authority of the state's Clean Air Act.
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In January, the city of Baltimore entered into a consent decree with the DOJ, legally binding the Maryland metropolis to implement the recommended reforms in the report.
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But Hiroko Masuhara and Koyuki Higashi's certificate isn't legally binding, so spousal rights such as hospital visitations are regarded more as suggestions rather than enforceable by law.
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Grigsby even offered an affidavit of support for Hernandez -- a legally-binding promise to take care of his friend and foot the bill if he needs help.
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Officials from 187 countries taking part in UNEP negotiations are considering legally-binding amendments to the Basel Convention on waste that would regulate trade in discarded plastic.
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His claims left most climate experts scratching their heads, since each country's commitments under the agreement are crafted by the country itself, and are not legally binding.
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Trump said the guidance, even though it was not legally binding, was an example of federal overreach, and he vowed to undo it once he was elected.
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Several ASEAN countries, including Vietnam and the Philippines, have said they still favor making the code legally binding, something experts say China is unlikely to agree to.
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Longer-term, U.S. officials have suggested they could roll back the tariffs in exchange for Beijing making the deal legally binding — something it backtracked on in May.
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While the ruling is regarded as legally binding, there is no mechanism to enforce it -- United Nations troops won't be forcing China off the land it controls.
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Whether these legally binding assurances about the backstop will be enough to get the deal through Parliament is the question dominating the debate ahead of Tuesday's vote.
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The rules, unveiled in a white paper on Monday, would impose a legally binding duty of care on social networks to make sure they tackle harmful content.
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The legally binding nature of the Supreme Court ruling appears to restrict the scope for diplomatic maneuvering, while on both sides there's a risk of public anger.
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Domestic banks and housebuilders gained ground on relief Britain may avoid a disorderly exit from the European Union after May got "legally binding" Brexit assurances from Brussels.
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He said however that until there was a legally binding document on the table, it was still important that the LME and its members had contingency plans.
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Macquarie Equities agreed to a legally binding undertaking for the corporate regulator in 2013, after a review found poor compliance by its advisers dating back to 2008.
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"The introduction of a legally binding reporting standard will improve the consistency and reliability of the data we receive," APRA member Geoff Summerhayes said in a statement.
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But they said Ryanair could become a very attractive employer if pilots were allowed to conduct collective bargaining that would provide them with legally binding fixed conditions.
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"We estimate that we will issue a first recommendation in 2020, which will be followed by a legally binding ruling in 2021," Chevet told a parliamentary committee.
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Clifford sued Cohen last month in an effort to break the agreement, arguing that it wasn't a legally binding contract because Trump himself had never signed it.
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There is no evidence of a marriage license in the state of Nevada, where the wedding took place, and Mongeau has said the union isn't legally binding.
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"While not legally binding, we would encourage the government of China to review and consider the opinion and recommendations received from the working group," Mr. Kirby said.
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In 2017, the UN introduced the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), the world's first legally-binding document that seeks to completely eliminate the arsenal.
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The 'FX Global Code' was developed by central banks and private sector participants to promote a fair and open FX market but it is not legally binding.
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Then there's the leaked letter from the energy secretary, Amber Rudd, that outlines how we're already failing to meet out legally binding EU renewables targets for 2020.
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Under the new regulation, which Attorney General Bob Ferguson said is legally binding, Facebook will remove such categories from its exclusion-targeting feature on its ad platform.
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At the UN, most of the world is working to produce a legally binding nuke-ban treaty (though the US is leading a boycott of those talks).
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She had vetoed a similarly worded but legally binding resolution on June 1 in a vote at the Security Council, where the United States wields veto power.
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Rulings by the International Court of Justice are legally binding but difficult to enforce; in the past, both the United States and Iran have ignored its orders.
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Were New START to disappear, for the first time in nearly half a century there would be no legally binding limits on American or Russian nuclear stockpiles.
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Ireland, for example, became the first country to legalize same-sex marriage by popular vote in 2015, but that referendum was conducted in person and legally binding.
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And some agencies have issued formal internal guidance to their own lawyers, instructing them that they must not use "shall" when creating legally binding obligations or prohibitions.
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It's not legally binding — the sponsors chose to introduce a non-binding "concurrent resolution" that wouldn't require Trump's signature — so if anything, it's more of a message.
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The legally binding Accord on Fire and Building Safety was signed by more than 236, including American Eagle, H & M and Inditex, the parent company of Zara.
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The Commission's guidelines, which are not legally binding, say full bans on private companies such as Airbnb or Uber should only be used as a last resort.
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A supervisory board member told Reuters that although it was difficult to alter legally binding contracts for managers it would be the right thing to waive bonuses.
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Mongeau recently revealed her mental health took a big hit after their wedding -- which was not legally binding, by the way -- and she's been unhappy ever since.
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It insists the withdrawal agreement be opened up and legally binding change made, or that some kind of legal declaration is made, making the backstop non-permanent.
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Several ASEAN countries, including Vietnam and the Philippines, have said they still favour making the code legally binding, something experts say China is unlikely to agree to.
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While the Southern Ocean fishery that replaces the natural reserve is managed under conservation-focused regulations, legally binding protections need to be made between Antarctic fishing states.
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European Union officials have been exasperated with the confusion in London, and so far are unwilling to reopen the legally binding part of the deal that Mrs.
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Gjerde, who participated in the meetings, says the agreement shows that countries finally recognize that it will take an international legally binding agreement to ensure meaningful protections.
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The State Department, according to the Washington Post, is fine with signing a peace declaration, as it falls short of an actual formal, legally binding peace treaty.
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The choice was made more difficult because the US withdrawal made it less likely that the Kyoto Protocol would ever come into force as a legally binding agreement.
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The opinions of the panel are based on national obligations under international human rights law that they have ratified and are thus legally binding in nature, it says.
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Last year, the Tokyo bourse also introduced a new governance code that while not legally binding, aims to secure equal treatment of shareholders, big and small, by companies.
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But Trump said the guidance, even though it was not legally binding, was an example of federal overreach, and he vowed to undo it once he was elected.
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Member states, employer groups and workers' representatives take part in negotiations for ILO Conventions, which are legally binding on ratification, and recommendations that give guidance on good practices.
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The fatwa is not legally binding but is aimed at discouraging plantation companies and farmers from clearing land using slash-and-burn methods in Southeast Asia's biggest economy.
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They agreed all allies should reach the target of spending 2 percent of economic output on defense every year by 2024, although the goal is not legally binding.
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On Tuesday it said it had agreed legally binding guarantees with Sky to fund its award-winning news output and to create a board to oversee its independence.
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"The Sky News Binding Commitments will constitute legally binding commitments on Comcast and Sky which will be enforceable by the Sky News Board," Comcast said in a statement.
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Agreements passed at the conference are legally binding to 183 signatory states, and although they do not supersede national law, they set standards for global trade and tourism.
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On Thursday, US President Barack Obama, speaking at the ASEAN summit, said that the arbitration ruling was legally binding and called for maritime disputes to be resolved peacefully.
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THE Catalan regional government of Carles Puigdemont is preparing to hold a unilateral referendum on seceding from Spain on October 1st, which it says will be legally binding.
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Why it matters: The plan would make the U.K. the first G7 nation to "legislate for net zero emissions," her office said in announcing the legally binding proposal.
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" The document also says that "the human rights framework provides a foundation of universally accepted norms to which the vast majority of governments already have legally binding obligations.
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He said that even though the referendum was not legally binding because of low turnout, it gave him a strong political mandate to stop Brussels imposing the measure.
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"The EU cannot and will not import bilateral problems ... Serbia must conclude and irreversibly implement a legally binding agreement with Kosovo," Hahn told a news conference in Belgrade.
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Britain has a legally binding target to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 to 80 percent below 1990 levels as part of a drive to counter global warming.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. bank regulators clarified on Tuesday that supervisory guidance is not legally binding, in response to industry criticism that agencies are increasingly relying on such guidance.
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Since it comes from a legal document tracking company, it makes sense that most of the app is focused on a creating a legally binding agreement between partners.
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They agreed all allies should reach the target of spending 2 percent of economic output on defense every year by 13, although the goal is not legally binding.
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Although the rules are not legally binding - the Tokyo bourse asks listed firms to comply or explain why they haven't - there are signs they are having an impact.
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The U.K. was the first country in 2008 to pass a law, with strong support across the political spectrum, creating legally-binding targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
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"What I am talking about is not a further exchange of letters but a significant and legally binding change to the withdrawal agreement," May told parliament on Tuesday.
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If Washington and Pyongyang don't soon secure some deescalating measures in a legally binding agreement, we could be headed straight back to the "fire and fury" of 2017.
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The resolution is not legally binding but exerts international pressure on the Trump administration to reconsider the Jerusalem move, which reversed decades of U.S. policy in the region.
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O'Rourke has also released a climate plan with an eventual $5 trillion price tag that sets a legally-binding target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
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Hell, going further wouldn't be without precedence: In 2009, a Tokyo man married a character from a Nintendo DS game, not that the vows were actually legally binding.
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But those words have reverberated in both London and Belfast, with Brexit minister David Davis saying they were more "a statement of intent" than a legally binding move.
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It would require the Saudis to make a legally binding commitment to forgo enrichment and reprocessing for 15 years, not indefinitely, thus kicking tough questions down the road.
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It would be much simpler for Parliament, which Monday night could find no majority for the Brexit plan, to pass the legally binding withdrawal agreement, Mr. Barnier said.
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The compact is not legally binding, but instead proposes a road map for cooperation that explicitly recognizes state sovereignty and governments' rights to decide their own immigration policies.
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In addition to the legally binding withdrawal agreement, the two sides also aim to agree on a vaguer deal outlining the shape of their long-term trade relationship.
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Hong Kong's Environmental Protection Department has rejected just seven of 249 applications for approval of environmental impact assessments since the permit review process became legally binding in 1998.
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"Now, the failure to comply with such a clear legally binding order would have the potential to change this dynamic and have Myanmar face real consequences," she said.
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One side presents the new initiatives as self-motivated change, while the other describes them as legally binding strictures that apply not just in New York but globally.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Thursday it wanted "legally binding" obligations on access to the European Union financial market, coupled with arrangements for maintaining trust as rules evolve.
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In Europe, meanwhile, the European Union's Charter of Fundamental Rights is a legally binding addendum to the Treaty of Lisbon, which functions like a constitution for the bloc.
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He said the bank would be able to sign a legally binding deal with the automaker after a final report is out in late April or early May.
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"This decision is not legally binding for us in any way and we have no intention to implement it," Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said in a reaction.
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Federal judges have ruled in the past that localities aren't obliged to honor the detainer requests, as they are not warrants signed by judges and not legally binding.
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Her concern is that the CDC's guidelines, while not legally binding, will encourage a top-down approach to pain care that ignores the complex realities of individual patients.
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Finally, Idaho locked in a legally binding Senate resolution in March that deletes material about climate change and human impact on the environment from the state's science standards.
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The company is looking for a way to make this "legally binding" so that a court could take legal action if Softbank does not live up to its promise.
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Three years ago, nearly 200 nations met in Paris to agree on a pact, aspects of which are legally binding, to cut greenhouse gas emissions to combat global warming.
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Germany and France have made progress in recent months on a bilateral agreement, but Berlin is resisting making it legally binding, according to French sources familiar with the matter.
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Here's a look at both the orders and memorandums he has signed so far: Trump's executive orders An executive order is a legally binding document that declares government policy.
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The agreement is a "self-regulatory" measure, which means that it's not legally binding, and it follows up on an earlier promise by the commission to regulate hate online.
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The judge said Chapo would not have to sign the extradition documents to make them official, and that they could "drop on the floor" and still be legally binding.
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Nearly every country in the world has agreed upon a legally binding framework to reduce the pollution from plastic waste except for the United States, U.N. environmental officials say.
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"The attorney general continues with his work to ensure we get legally-binding changes to ensure that we are not locked in the backstop," Communities Secretary James Brokenshire said.
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They also said the target date was too far away and the limited number of steps to proposed by the G20 was voluntary, not legally binding, limiting their effectiveness.
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But all parties should ensure that the code, which has made little progress since the idea was agreed in 2002, needed to be legally "binding and enforceable", Yasay added.
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Some business leaders, however, echoed a warning from EU negotiator Michel Barnier that the deal is legally binding only if London agrees the whole withdrawal treaty by next March.
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"Message to Chinese govt: good relations between countries are based on mutual respect and honouring the legally binding agreements between them," Hunt said on Twitter after Liu's media briefing.
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Traditionally, bilateral trade deals between nations have been inked with memoranda of understanding, or MOUs rather than legally binding contracts, given the diversity of legal systems around the world.
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International Trade Secretary Liam Fox, a prominent Brexit supporter in Cabinet, had warned that a government defeat, though not legally binding, would send the "wrong signals" to EU leaders.
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Victims were told that their conversations had been recorded and were legally binding agreements to buy, and that if they reneged they would face late fees and property liens.
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All you would need to do is answer a questionnaire to customize to your specific needs, and you will automatically get handed a legally-binding will within 10 minutes.
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Britain's environment minister, Michael Gove, called for the strengthening of a proposed watchdog so that the government could be sued if it failed to meet legally binding climate goals.
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In recent years, some other former SS camp guards have been convicted but died either before the conviction was legally binding or before they had to go behind bars.
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"Keep well" agreements are deeds borrowers can use to enhance their credit worthiness but unlike guarantees they are not legally binding and have not been tested in Chinese courts.
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The government is proposing a six-and-a-half-hour ban on flights overnight as well as legally binding noise targets, but residents in the area are still unconvinced.
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The guidelines are not legally binding, but are intended to influence legislation as governments increasingly face pressure to law down rules for what AI technology can and cannot do.
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ISDS rulings are as legally binding as if they were made by a country's own supreme court, but the proceedings aren't beholden to precedent or public oversight, Buzzfeed reported.
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In 2011 the FTC and Facebook agreed to a legally binding consent decree preventing the company from sharing their user data outside of a user's specific privacy without consent.
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The EU has repeatedly said it will not renegotiate the legally binding part of that deal, the 'Withdrawal Agreement' which sets out a transition period to smooth Britain's exit.
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The Kigali amendment of the 30-year-old Montreal Protocol, a legally binding environmental treaty, calls on the world to phase down refrigerants used in appliances like air conditioners.
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In May of this year, YouTube signed an EU code of conduct against hate speech which, while not legally binding, marked a serious "public commitment" made by the site.
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Paul and Mongeau have had to defend their apparent romance many times, especially since their marriage isn't legally binding and they haven't spent much time together since the ceremony.
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But the agreement now has enough countries as signatories to make it legally binding, and Mr. Trump may have a hard time extricating the United States from the deal.
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The government has a popular mandate to request that troops leave, but it is unclear if this is legally binding and no timetable was laid out in the resolution.
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Where technology and economics collide Contracts — legally binding agreements about who will do what in exchange for what under what circumstances — are the lifeblood of a functioning market economy.
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While red notices are not legally binding, they can be used to detain fugitives so they can be extradited to the country where they were convicted of a crime.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The Commission adopted a proposal for a European "climate law" to make the bloc's 2050 net zero emissions target legally binding, a top official said on Wednesday.
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The proposal looks to make the European Union's (EU) goal of reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 220006 legally binding for all of the bloc's 2202 member states.
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The EPA under President Barack Obama then issued a guideline limit for safe exposure to PFAS that some saw as a precursor to a legally binding and enforceable limit.
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All of which begs the question: is the couple actually already legally wed — and is this weekend's gathering more of a ceremonial celebration rather than a legally binding contract?
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The MTCR is a voluntary, non-legally binding agreement among 28503 countries to limit transfers of missiles that could be used as delivery vehicles for weapons of mass destruction.
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Lawmakers in parliament's lower house on Tuesday evening approved a non-legally binding resolution modeled on the definition of anti-Semitism set by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).
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The House passed a similar resolution last week, largely along party lines, but it is a concurrent resolution, meaning it doesn't go to Trump's desk and isn't legally binding.
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The Liberal plan also includes setting legally binding five-year milestones and appointing a group of scientists and economists to advise on the path to a net-zero economy.
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Key powers agree that request is not legally binding and cannot be enforced under Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter, which deals with sanctions and authorization of military force.
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The recommendations laid out in the complaint would be legally binding if approved by the committee, but there's no real method in place to ensure the countries follow through.
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Both groups have created safety standards and mechanisms to enforce them, although the accord, with a legally binding arbitration provision, is largely seen as the stronger of the two.
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But unlike the Paris agreement, the Kigali deal is legally binding, has very specific timetables and has an agreement by rich countries to help poor countries adapt their technology.
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Prime Minister Theresa May rushed to Strasbourg yesterday to agree "legally binding" assurances with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, which lawmakers are studying and will vote on tonight.
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A spokeswoman for the company said the shareholder vote was not legally binding, but added that the supervisory board would look at the structure and transparency of management pay.
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"The British government sees May's meeting on Wednesday with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker as a crucial chance to get legally binding changes" to the agreement, Bloomberg reports.
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Efforts by the Obama administration to negotiate a nuclear cooperation agreement faltered over the Saudis' refusal to make a legally binding commitment to forgo uranium enrichment and plutonium reprocessing.
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Downing Street insists that an agreement among the EU's 28 leaders would be "legally binding" and would be lodged at the UN regardless of whether treaty change is agreed.
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"Message to Chinese govt: good relations between countries are based on mutual respect and honoring the legally binding agreements between them," Hunt said on Twitter after Liu's media briefing.
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NHTSA Administrator Mark Rosekind told Reuters in an interview last week that a voluntary agreement that could get the safety technology in vehicles before a legally binding rule was preferable.
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The requests, which are not legally binding (like a subpoena), come at the behest of Chairman Fred Upton, subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy and ranking members Frank Pallone and Diana DeGette.
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"This isn't an Act of Parliament, but a royal prerogative established in the early 18th century, so it is not legally binding," Joe Little, managing editor of Majesty, tells PEOPLE.
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At the Paris climate conference in December 2015, 195 countries adopted a legally binding deal aimed at avoiding dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to "well below" 2 Celsius.
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"The PM has been talking throughout the course of this week and last week to European leaders about the need to secure legally binding changes to the backstop," she said.
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This means Islamic banks are precluded from traditional forwards as these become legally binding at the outset, leaving counterparties exposed to an overtly uncertain outcome in the eyes of scholars.
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FRANKFURT, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Buyout firm Advent International made a legally binding 3.6 billion euro ($3.8 billion) takeover offer for Germany's Stada Arzneimittel , giving its management until Monday to respond.
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The Global Compact for Safety, Orderly and Regular Migration is not legally binding and is to be formally adopted at a ministerial meeting in Marrakesh, Morocco, on Dec. 11-12.
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The Bangladesh Accord is a legally-binding agreement between global brands and trade unions to establish a fire and safety programme for the country's $28 billion a year textile industry.
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But none of the measures were legally binding, and short of a nationally integrated approach to fighting pollution — Italy currently lacks one — the responsibility falls to mayors like Mr. Falcone.
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The legally-binding HFC agreement may help most in areas like the Arctic, where warming is already leading to widespread environmental shifts as sea ice cover plummets to record lows.
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Unlike Kyoto, however, none of those plans are actually legally binding — a fact that environmental groups say make the overall plan pretty weak, but which Pruitt seems to loathe anyway.
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Catalonia's new leader, Quim Torra, last week dismissed the idea that this could be a way forward and instead called on Sanchez to accept a legally-binding referendum on independence.
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The CITES resolution is not legally binding but can merely put pressure on countries to close their ivory trade because the convention only regulates international trade and not domestic trade.
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The UK government has consistently argued that no new vote should be held, but the British parliament has the final word on whether any legally binding referendum can take place.
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A vote in the Scottish parliament next week, where pro-independence parties have a majority, will almost certainly authorize Sturgeon to seek a legally binding vote on a new referendum.
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The pact should eventually be put to the United Nations for adoption and impose legally-binding obligations on signatory states, its drafters - comprising legal experts from several countries - have said.
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He then suggested a supplementary, non-legally binding letter from European Council President Donald Tusk and other senior EU officials on details of the deal might help move negotiations forward.
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In December, global political and economic leaders met in Paris for the United Nations' COP21 climate change conference where they agreed to legally binding deal on limiting greenhouse gas emissions.
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India has refused, which means it has not accepted legally binding commitments to pursue disarmament negotiations, halt the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons and not test nuclear weapons.
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However, US negotiators ensured that the individual targets for each country are not legally binding, which would require congressional approval, which has drawn criticism from European Union nations and environmentalists.
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The 183 states which are signatories of CITES meet in Geneva from Aug 17-28 to consider 56 proposals to expand a legally binding treaty which already covers 36,000 species.
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The final, legally binding vote tally gave him 47.08% of votes to Mesa's 36.51%, less than a percentage point more than the 10-point margin needed to avoid a runoff.
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"We need VW to guarantee, in a legally binding way and without any time limit, that the repairs will work and do not have any negative impact," the official said.
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German organization Agrecol is in the process of launching an open source "license," essentially a more formal, legally binding version of the OSSI pledge for breeders in the European Union.
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The House of Commons, the lower chamber, also voted late on Tuesday in favor of an amendment ruling out a no-deal Brexit, though that measure is not legally binding.
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The guidelines — which suggest that A.I. should benefit people and the planet, and be designed to respect the rule of law and human rights, among other things — aren't legally binding.
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Ms. Matthau said she agreed to enter into a more than $100,000 settlement with Mr. Weinstein in exchange for a legally binding promise never to speak of the allegations again.
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When an affidavit, a legally binding statement laying out evidence in a case, is needed, Transworld's software automatically fills in details like the amount owed, according to Mr. Luke's testimony.
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The two most notable cases of rebellion — the governor-led United States Climate Alliance and #WeAreStillIn, a commitment signed by city, university and business leaders – are also not legally binding.
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LONDON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Britain said on Thursday it wants "legally binding" obligations on access to the European Union financial market coupled with arrangements for maintaining trust as rules evolve.
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O'Brien spoke as the US and Russia hit the one-year deadline to extend the New START Treaty, the last legally binding agreement limiting their nuclear arsenals -- the world's largest.
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The government now has a popular mandate to request that troops leave, but it is unclear if this is legally binding and no timetable was laid out in the resolution.
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" As Colum Lynch wrote on March 16, 85033, "The updated measures are neither legally binding nor as restrictive as the measures in place at the time of the nuclear pact.
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It is hard to imagine that with the public having voted, members of Parliament will not feel bound to follow its wishes, even though the referendum was not legally binding.
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But he later said that the Obama-era guidance, even though it was not legally binding, was an example of federal overreach — and he vowed to undo it if elected.
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Murdered blogger's stepdaughter inspired by dad While the decree is not legally binding, it is hoped that it will raise awareness of what the scholars say misguided and un-Islamic actions.
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The backstop plan is a legally-binding insurance policy to ensure there is no hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland whatever the outcome of future trade talks.
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Although not legally binding, the guidelines are an attempt to set a Europe-wide approach to the fast-growing sector instead of the patchwork response adopted by European cities so far.
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ASEAN secretary general, Le Luong Minh, said the code needed to be legally binding to put a stop to "unilateral actions", because a previous commitment to play fair had been ignored.
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The EU's approval is a huge step because the climate deal needs a minimum of 21981 countries, representing at least 22010 percent of global emissions, in order to become legally binding.
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The EU's approval is a huge step because the climate deal needs a minimum of 55 countries, representing at least 55 percent of global emissions, in order to become legally binding.
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Britain has a legally binding target to cut its GHG emissions by 2050 to 80 percent below 1990 levels and has set out five yearly carbon budgets towards meeting this goal.
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In 2015, Grodd, a U.S. Marine and bootcamp-style personal trainer, wed Bachelorette In Paradise co-star Lacy Faddoul in a TV ceremony — which, according to People, was not legally binding.
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In a report on Monday, Amnesty International said many of the approximately 22016,26 miners still lived in bleak informal settlements, despite a legally binding commitment from Lonmin to build more houses.
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The singer has confirmed, via the legally-binding (not really, but a fan can hope) method of an Instagram comment, that her long-awaited ninth album will be released next year.
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The two dozen states that want a legally binding ban on fully autonomous weapons are mostly military minnows like Djibouti and Peru, but some members, such as Austria, have diplomatic sway.
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Greenhouse gas emissions in Britain have fallen by 38 percent since 1990, and the country has a legally binding target to cut them by 80 percent from 1990 levels by 2050.
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MPs also supported an amendment that states the U.K. will not leave the EU without a deal although the departure date remains the same, and the vote is not legally binding.
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Recent events have undermined the integrity of that long-established relationship and have forced the administration to further cement with a legally binding order the independence of this critical investigative office.
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Reports that the European Union gave British Prime Minister Theresa May legally binding assurances before a crucial vote in the British parliament on her proposed Brexit agreement also improved risk sentiment.
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Diplomats say key powers agree that request is not legally binding and cannot be enforced under Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter, which deals with sanctions and authorization of military force.
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Catalonia's new leader, Quim Torra, earlier this month dismissed the idea that this could be a way forward and instead called on Sanchez to accept a legally-binding referendum on independence.
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The EMA's recommendation on the suspension of the medicines tested by Micro Therapeutic will now be sent to the European Commission for a legally binding decision valid throughout the European Union.
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Advocacy groups worried that the New York Declaration on Migrants and Refugees — an outcome document which contains no concrete commitments and is not legally binding — falls short of what is needed.
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The resolution, which has been adopted by the more than 40 member states since its introduction in 2012, is not legally binding, but is meant to set standards for state behavior.
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It is also a pointed reminder that the US is long overdue to honor a legally-binding promise made 37 years ago to get rid of all of its nuclear weapons.
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"After two years of being left in limbo, we don't take things on trust - we want legally binding guarantees that this cannot be changed by future ministers or governments," she said.
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It may not be legally binding, but it is a significant acknowledgment from the country's elite, even if a symbolic one, of the ways the US has been failing regular people.
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China's state media reported last year that the government is writing tougher regulations for lab animals, but it is not clear when such rules would be effective or become legally binding.
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"There remains in place a legally-binding settlement agreement that was agreed to by the arbitrating parties," Mubadala, which Abu Dhabi merged with IPIC in January 2017, said in a statement.
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Britain has a legally binding target to cut emissions of harmful greenhouse gases, such as those produced by fossil-fuel-based power plants, by 80 percent from 1990 levels by 2050.
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Thanking all of those who took part in the protests, Lam attempted to appease her critics, saying that additional human rights safeguards proposed last month would have a legally binding effect.
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Britain had previously viewed carbon capture and storage as a vital tool to help it meet its legally binding target to cut emissions by 13 percent on 1990 levels by 2050.
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Passantino promptly called Apol, and Apol recommended that Trump abide by a typical — though not legally binding — standard of conduct that prohibits the president from using his office for personal gain.
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Such a declaration, although not a legally binding treaty, could carry far-reaching repercussions, helping North Korea escalate its campaign for the withdrawal of American troops from the South, analysts said.
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Yelp, for one, told the FTC in September that Google had actually broken its legally binding promise, charging that the tech giant had actually used Yelp photos in its search results.
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Those concerns were inflamed further when it was revealed that the confidential, legally binding document detailing the agreement showed that Mr. Deripaska and his allies would retain majority ownership of EN+.
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Then rebel lawmakers unexpectedly won a vote of 312 to 308, passing an amendment ruling out a no-deal exit — a not legally binding act, but putting moral pressure on Mrs.
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Yet a confidential, legally binding document detailing the agreement showed that Mr. Deripaska, who remains under personal sanction by the United States, and his allies would retain majority ownership of EN+.
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"The attorney general continues to pursue legally binding changes to the backstop that are necessary to ensure the EU cannot hold the UK in it indefinitely," a spokesman for May said.
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For decades, the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, a treaty adopted in 21980, had struggled to develop a legally binding agreement, with formal sanctions for failure.
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A Voluntary Partnership Agreement, a legally binding trade agreement signed between Indonesia and the EU six years ago, requires government inspections to ensure all timber originates from areas licensed for logging.
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And his legally binding 20-year national plan -- designed as a blueprint for the country's development after years of political crisis -- could hobble future governments' ability to enact policy, critics say.
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The legally binding agreements would ban steep fee increases for nonprofit domain holders, and they would establish an independent "stewardship council" that could veto attempts at censorship or inappropriate data use.
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However, the EU argues that Johnson agreed to a future level playing field with the EU when he signed the non-legally binding Political Declaration at the end of last year.
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The pact is not legally binding and was decried by critics as toothless because it lets signatories pick and choose guidelines rather than setting goals, and sidestepped the problem of overconsumption.
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The majority of the world's nations will gather at the United Nations in New York at the end of March to begin negotiating a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons.
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In the South China Sea, a resource-rich and strategic region where several nations have claims, China has ignored maritime law and a legally binding tribunal ruling by building islands there.
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Britain last week passed a legally binding commitment to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, making it the first of the major G7 countries to set such a goal.
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In April, female Muslim clerics issued an unprecedented fatwa - a religious edict which is not legally binding but influential among Muslims - to declare underage marriage harmful and said its prevention was mandatory.
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It noted that the part of the defense policy bill referring to Taiwan was not legally binding, but said it was an interference with China's internal affairs that China could not accept.
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In a move that's being called "historic," the European Parliament has approved the ratification of the first ever legally-binding worldwide climate deal, putting the agreement within days of coming into force.
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"The prime minister raised the recent protests in Hong Kong, stressing the need to respect the rights and freedoms set out in the legally binding Sino-British joint declaration," the spokesman said.
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The Penn State chapter house was closed following Piazza's death, and the settlement includes a "legally binding" plan to make all Beta Theta Pi houses alcohol- and substance-free by August 2020.
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But without any legally binding confidentiality clauses around what can be done with their medical voice queries it's not clear how NHS Digital can confidently assert that Amazon isn't creating health profiles.
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The United States signed Kyoto, but then-President George W. Bush later rejected it because China, India and other emerging economies did not face legally binding requirements to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Foster said to regain the DUP's support May would have to remove the Irish protocol from the legally binding withdrawal agreement, something the EU has repeatedly made clear it will not countenance.
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Acting Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has refused to consider any measures that could help Catalonia, which accounts for almost a fifth of Spanish economic output, to hold a legally binding referendum.
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Even if they are agreed by members of the committee, the rules are not legally binding until they have been approved by the European Commission, EU parliament and jointly by EU states.
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Earlier Verhofstadt had said it will insist on quickly making the deal reached between the European Union and Britain on divorce terms legally binding, worried London may not honour a gentleman's agreement.
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The CFPB can impose legally-binding restrictions on everything from mortgages to payday loans to debit cards; it can also fine offenders, ban bad practices, and dish out relief to wronged consumers.
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The currency was lifted by a report over the weekend that said an all-UK customs deal will be written into the legally binding agreement governing Britain's withdrawal from the European Union.
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In a report published today, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) said that Sweden and the UK should compensate Assange for the detention, though the ruling is not legally binding.
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Why it won't matter forever: This memorandum has no legally binding impact, so the next president and his or her EPA administrator can choose to not follow it if they so chose.
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The rulemaking committee was established in late February, and its recommendations are not legally binding, just advisory — it's a similar procedure to the task force that in November suggested drone registration rules.
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"We are ready also to rework the agreed declaration on a new partnership," he added, referring to a political declaration on wished-for future relations that accompanies the legally binding withdrawal agreement.
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The GDPR, which is legally binding for any company and organization that does business in the EU zone, is considered a de facto gold standard for all tech companies handling personal information.
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Wallace will say that the framework for the future partnership, which is not legally binding, will see Britain and the EU co-operate on areas like cyber-security, DNA exchange and extradition.
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He said rich countries should take on legally binding cuts in emissions to limit warming that could undermine farming such as coffee in Nicaragua, spread floods and droughts and raise sea levels.
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TOKYO, July 12 (Reuters) - The Hague tribunal ruling on the South China Sea is final and legally binding, and the parties to the case are required to comply, Japan said on Tuesday.
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While not legally binding, the declaration is meant to serve as a guiding light for governments and tech companies dealing with these issues, similar to the Necessary and Proportionate principles on surveillance.
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This, confusingly, doesn't actually halt the pace of VirnetX's patent case: the invalidation is not legally binding until all appeals have been exhausted (and separately that case appears to still be ongoing).
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The Security Council has approved over 70 legally binding resolutions this year, including new sanctions on North Korea and measures tackling conflicts and authorizing the U.N.'s peacekeeping operations around the world.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's top government lawyer is seeking legally binding changes to the Irish border backstop and the Brexit negotiations are at a critical stage, Communities Secretary James Brokenshire said on Monday.
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The referendum was itself not legally binding, but lawmakers had pledged to abide by it, and the failure to reach the turnout threshold means opponents can now freely vote against the deal.
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The startup was previously known as Blockai, but it's rebranding today — the new name is meant to focus less on technology and instead emphasize the idea of creating a legally binding record.
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The agreement presented in a joint report last Friday was, in the view of some in Brussels, undermined by Davis's comment that it was more "a statement of intent" than legally binding.
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That possibility has left May and her government scrambling to see if an allied Labour-Conservative parliamentary vote in favor of a customs union would actually be legally binding, per The Guardian.
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O'Brien gave that speech as the US and Russia hit the one-year deadline to extend the New START Treaty, the last legally binding agreement limiting their nuclear arsenals -- the world's largest.
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The deal is not legally binding and the parties will first study options for developing the route and may set up a joint venture later to develop freight transit via the NSR.
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In a move that's being called "historic," the European Parliament has approved the ratification of the first ever legally binding worldwide climate deal, putting the agreement within days of going into effect.
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That is a legally binding treaty that would resolve technical issues, like the government's outstanding financial commitments to the bloc, and keep Britain inside its economic structures until at least December 2020.
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This agreement was so bad that bipartisan majorities in both chambers of Congress voted against it after the last administration refused to submit it as a legally binding treaty under the Constitution.
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If you were following the almost definitely not legally binding wedding of YouTubers Jake Paul and Tana Mongeau last July, it is likely that you weren't doing so through the mainstream press.
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Catalonia's regional president, Carles Puigdemont, said last Wednesday that he was open to negotiating the terms of a legally binding referendum but he would hold it with or without Spain´s blessing.
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And it halted one part of the government's aviation expansion plans at a moment when any additional flights jeopardize Britain's own legally binding target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
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Yet the EU still wants a legally binding, written alternative to the backstop (a mechanism to avert a hard border in Ireland), which Mr Johnson wants to excise from the withdrawal agreement.
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Britain has long championed the fight against global warming: it was one of the first nations to adopt a legally-binding framework to cut emissions with its Climate Change Act in 2008.
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Mr. Cox prefers legally binding assurances of "good faith" that the backstop could cease to apply, "in whole or in part," if other means to avoid a hard border can be found.
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The legally binding pact, lauded as the most progressive human rights instrument for women and girls in Africa, has been signed and ratified by 42 of the African Union's 55 member states.
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But despite Davis striking a confident tone, EU officials say they will only launch negotiations on a legally binding treaty after Britain leaves and becomes a "third country", according to draft negotiating guidelines.
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The globally harmonized, independently verified, legally binding climate policy framework that climate activists have been dreaming about for decades has never materialized, and the Paris climate agreement marks the death of that aspiration.
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Orcel has alleged that a four-page letter in which Santander offered him the job was legally binding, while Santander says the letter did not constitute a contract as defined by Spanish law.
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Without a legally binding transition deal by year end, banks would have to start applying for licenses in the first quarter of next year to allow enough time for regulators to process them.
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European Parliament lawmakers expressed scepticism that the United States was serious about ensuring protection for European privacy rights and said what the U.S. side was offering was well short of legally binding assurances.
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"The Joint Declaration is a legally binding treaty between the UK and China that remains as valid today as it was when it was signed and ratified over 30 years ago," she added.
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Britain's greenhouse gas emissions have fallen 42 percent since 1990, meaning it is half way toward meeting a legally binding target to cut these emissions by 2050 to 80 percent below 1990 levels.
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The currency was lifted by a report in Britain's Sunday Times that an all-UK customs deal will be written into the legally binding agreement governing the country's withdrawal from the European Union.
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Although Giordani reminded the contract signed with Vivendi was still legally binding, he said Mediaset would be "available" for talks with Vivendi as long as the value given to Premium would not change.
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That led Russian authorities to send a supposedly legally binding letter to the company yesterday demanding it remove the app within one month or face some type of punishment for violating local law.
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But the real game changer came in 2013, when Lesoska submitted a complaint to the Bern Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats, a legally binding pact between 51 states.
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The conference achieved its major goal: Reaching a legally binding agreement to keep global warming below what most scientists say is the critical threshold of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming.
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Facebook has signed a new, legally binding agreement with the state of Washington agreeing to remove advertisers' ability to exclude races, religions, sexual orientations, and other protected classes in certain ad-targeting sectors.
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"What we need to achieve is legally-binding changes which satisfy parliament that we will not be stuck in the (Irish border) backstop indefinitely," May's spokesman said, predicting "a detailed discussion" with Juncker.
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Because even if you're nowhere close to legally binding yourself to someone else, there's no harm in curating the perfect wedding Pinterest board filled with crafty centerpieces you'll probably never actually glue together.
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The new European Union proposals announced Thursday include legally binding measures to block the most common methods used by companies to avoid paying tax and help circulate tax information on multinationals among countries.
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Amendment votes are not legally binding but they can provide a useful indication of how Parliament might vote on any binding legislation, and they can they can influence the government's choice of actions.
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"We can confirm that a legally binding agreement for a consensual arrangement with creditors has today been finalised between Mr. Aas and his creditors, including Nasdaq Clearing," Nasdaq Commodities said in a statement.
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Britain's greenhouse gas emissions have now fallen 22.6 percent since 22.8, putting it more than halfway towards meeting a legally binding target to cut them by 280 to 80 percent below 1990 levels.
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Their results nevertheless feed into "guidance" on how much capital a bank should have, which is not legally binding but can lead to intensified scrutiny and corrective measures by supervisors if not met.
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Britain's greenhouse gas emissions have now fallen 239.4 percent since 2.63, putting it more than halfway toward meeting a legally binding target to cut them by 22.6 to 22.8 percent below 280 levels.
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Prime Minister Theresa May won legally binding Brexit assurances from the European Union, in a last-ditch attempt to sway rebellious British lawmakers who have threatened to vote down her divorce deal again.
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Before negotiations with Britain can actually start, the Council, in the shape of ministers sitting in the General Affairs Council (GAC), must approve the recommendations by issuing legally binding "negotiating directives" to Barnier.
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The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, led by the Swedish retailer H&M, was largely seen as stronger because it included a legally binding arbitration provision to resolve labor disputes.
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A draft of the resolution had included legally binding, specific pollution reduction targets, but the U.S. reportedly led the way on rejecting that draft (China and India refused to sign the draft, too).
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The opinion is not legally binding and only applies to one company, but it could bolster tech companies' arguments in court in the future as they push to classify their workers as contractors.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The British government's Clean Growth Strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will not be enough to meet legally binding climate change targets, a committee of cross-party lawmakers said on Wednesday.
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The team said they would continue pursing the previously filed lawsuit to make the accommodations lasting and legally binding, as well as to get a broader answer on the Pentagon's policies toward Sikhs.
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"If the targets aren't legally binding, and there's not an enforcement decision, then after it's just that different people are going to interpret different parts of the agreement in different ways," Light said.
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The accord approached its legally binding threshold this month after the United States and China, which together account for nearly 40 percent of emissions, jointly announced that they would legally join the deal.
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What may be of more consequence is an inability to offer advisory opinions, legally binding policy statements that offer candidates or political committees clarity on what is and is not permitted under law.
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It has, for example, taken decisions to make legally binding commitments by Visa Europe to cap the levels of interchange fees for all debit and credit card transactions within the European Economic Area.
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On Wednesday, Labour made public a letter written by opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn to May offering to support her Brexit deal if she makes five legally binding commitments, including joining a customs union.
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May's pitch had always been optimistic, given the divisions in the British Parliament and the demands by some legislators for a legally binding exit from provisions that were meant to be indefinite guarantees.
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But such parliamentary votes are not legally binding, and constitutional scholars have spent the past few days trying to sort out which side would win a disagreement between the executive and legislative branches.
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Months of difficult negotiations produced the legally binding withdrawal agreement and a vaguer set of pledges concerning a future relationship with the bloc, both of which were officially adopted in Brussels on Sunday.
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Conservation easements, which are voluntary and legally-binding agreements that limit the future development of land forever, are a critically important tool in the effort to protect our nation's most important land resources.
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Diplomats met in September at the United Nations in New York to begin negotiations on a legally binding treaty to protect ocean resources - with the aim of hashing out an agreement by 2020.
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France, a country with an economy about the same size as Britain's, is also aiming for net-zero by the middle of the century, and it, too, says this target is legally binding.
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Jude Sabio, the Philippine lawyer who filed the complaint with the ICC last year, said Duterte's actions were designed to appeal to his base, but pointed out it would have no legally binding effect.
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"There can be no assurance that any definitive offer will be made, that any legally binding agreement will be executed or that this or any other transaction will be approved or consummated," Baidu added.
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The amendment, intended to guarding against threats such as smuggling and sabotage, makes it legally binding for countries to protect nuclear facilities as well as the domestic use, storage and transportation of nuclear material.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain's deal with the European Union is legally binding and irreversibly enshrined in treaty, Prime Minister David Cameron says; opponents, including his own justice minister, a personal friend, say it is not.
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"We need VW to guarantee, in a legally binding way and without any time limit, that the repairs will work and do not have any negative impact," a Commission official told Reuters on Monday.
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The alliance, which is not legally binding, aims to have at least 50 members by the next U.N. climate summit in 2018 to be held in Poland's Katowice, one of Europe's most polluted cities.
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NASA currently has a planetary protection office to make sure it's honoring COSPAR guidelines, but these rules aren't legally binding, and there's nothing, outside of science ethics, to prevent NASA from straying off course.
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Under current policies, Britain is on track to miss its legally-binding emission reduction targets for the mid-2020s onwards, prompting calls for more action in the heat, buildings, industry, transport and agriculture sectors.
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But there often seemed to be an impregnable wall around the entertainment industry, and it was constructed as much out of "This is just how things are done" as it was legally binding NDAs.
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This means that a push for a peace treaty could require South Koreans to ask whether they should discard their cherished national goal of unification and accept a legally-binding permanent division, Bong said.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May held constructive phone calls with European leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday to discuss the need for legally binding changes to backstop, her spokeswoman said.
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The new relationship came just under two weeks after Jenner and his ex, Kaitlynn Carter, called it quits after a year of marriage, though a source told PEOPLE the ceremony was not legally binding.
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But Trump said the guidance, even though it was not legally binding, was an example of federal overreach and a misinterpretation of federal law, and he vowed to undo it once he was elected.
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"She understands what, I think, our concerns are about the legally binding nature of the indefinite arrangements that we would be tied into and the difficulties that would pose for Northern Ireland," he said.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has written to Prime Minister Theresa May, offering to support her Brexit deal if she makes five legally binding commitments – including joining a customs union.
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" On the issue of extending Britain's transition period, he said: "I'm open to the idea of an extension or a longer transition period, but that's not an alternative to a legally binding Irish backstop.
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In the event of a partner's death, cohabiting couples do not have any legal entitlements to property if their partner dies, unless a provision is made in a will or a legally-binding document.
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But even if the UNWGAD rules in Assange's favor, its decision will not be legally binding, and the British government says it has an obligation to arrest him if he leaves the Ecuadorean embassy.
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The decision will place into sharp relief the dueling factions within the West Wing, who disagree on whether the pact is legally binding or whether withdrawing would send the wrong signals to global allies.
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In 220006, the UN Security Council passed a legally binding resolution requiring all member states to put domestic laws in place that will help prosecute anyone who travels abroad to join a terrorist organization.
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Nepal should sign legally binding bilateral agreements with destination countries to protect its overseas workers, who often do not receive or cannot understand their contracts, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation and abuse, Morales added.
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Magnette said Wallonia was ready to accept a legally binding amendment to CETA that would interpret provisions on arbitration courts, public services and environmental legislation, although it would have preferred a complete re-negotiation.
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But while the decision is legally binding, there is no mechanism for enforcing it, and China, which refused to participate in the tribunal's proceedings, reiterated on Tuesday that it would not abide by it.
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Such plans — whether they remain post-offer intentions or legally binding undertakings — will need to be published in a separate report as part of Britain's effort to make bidders accountable for what they promise.
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LONDON, Nov 19 (Reuters) - The British government has said it is minded to accept legally binding undertakings put forward by private equity group Advent in order to secure its purchase of defense company Cobham.
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Innogy said the deal was a step in the right direction but pointed out that legally binding commitments for certain demands it has made, including keeping the Innogy brand alive, had not been reached.
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The Times said some opponents of May's divorce plan could still be persuaded to back the legally binding withdrawal agreement if they were confident that the political declaration on the subsequent relationship was doomed.
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Her plan is a legally binding treaty that would resolve technical issues, like the government's outstanding financial commitments to the bloc, and keep Britain inside the Continent's economic structures until at least December 2020.
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Then again, even if you do read the billboard as we believe it's intended -- ya gotta wonder ... is that a legally binding promise to customers that they won't contract the virus from Little Darlings??
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She said both Johnson and his leadership rival Jeremy Hunt would be "very welcome" to re-negotiate the Political Declaration that covers bilateral ties after Brexit, but not the legally binding withdrawal agreement itself.
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As it considers how to proceed, the W.H.O. committee is grappling with a monumental choice — global health emergencies are legally binding announcements requiring every United Nations member state to take action — with scant data.
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The currency was lifted by the Sunday Times report over the weekend that said an all-UK customs deal will be written into the legally binding agreement governing Britain's withdrawal from the European Union.
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Although Tuesday's order is narrowly tailored to a single phone and would be legally binding in only one district, it would likely persuade other judges to reach similar rulings in subsequent cases, critics say.
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You could also direct a family member to make a donation with a part of an inheritance, which may not be legally binding but could pass on a tax benefit to the ultimate donor.
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LONDON, Nov 19 (Reuters) - The British government has said it is minded to accept legally binding undertakings put forward by private equity group Advent in order to secure its purchase of defence company Cobham.
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"The prime minister said that our objective now was to secure a legally binding way of guaranteeing we cannot be trapped indefinitely in the backstop," the spokesman said following a meeting with May's cabinet.
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"It is not legally binding, but I would take it for granted that Sweden would follow it," Per Samuelsson, a lawyer representing Mr. Assange, said on Thursday before the Swedish government confirmed the panel's findings.
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Since 2010, China and the 10-member Southeast Asian countries have been negotiating a legally binding code of conduct to replace the informal rules contained in a political declaration made in Phnom Penh in 2002.
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Australia, Japan and the United States have urged ASEAN and China to ensure the code is "legally binding", while critics have said failure to make it enforceable creates doubts about how effective it can be.
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Officials last week signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU), the precursor to a legally-binding bilateral agreement at year-end, and an international tender will be called in August to appoint a joint development partner.
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She is ready to go back to Brussels to seek alterations, which will be easier to do in the political declaration about future relations than in the withdrawal agreement, which is a legally binding treaty.
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Kerry had said earlier that China's dismissal of the international court ruling as "illegitimate" presented a challenge when the international community, including the United States, saw it as legally binding and a matter of law.
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Amid celebrations of the legally binding Kigali pact to phase down use of factory-made hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), many governments and environmentalists said it could avert 0.5C of warming this century, citing a 2013 scientific study.
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Although he tweeted that he would make a decision next week, his apparent reluctance to embrace the first legally binding global climate deal that was signed by 195 countries clearly annoyed German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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Under the framework, South Korea would pass relevant information to the United States, with which Seoul already has a legally-binding pact to share and safeguard intelligence called General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA).
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In another swipe at Washington, Duterte said he would review a landmark security deal agreed upon with the United States, arguing it may not be legally binding because no president had signed off on it.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May won legally binding Brexit assurances from the EU on Monday in a last ditch attempt to sway rebellious British lawmakers who have threatened to vote down her divorce deal again.
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I don't think he went into this type of specificity, but if two people may be far away from each other, but maybe wanted to get married in cyberspace, could that be considered legally binding?
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Britain is set to unveil legislation on Monday that brings about a new legally-binding duty of care on social media firms to make their platforms safer, The Guardian reported, citing a leaked government document.
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It's a long way from anything legally binding for either Apple or the FBI, but the commission could provide a crucial starting point for future legislative action on the issues currently faced by the courts.
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Speaking at a daily news briefing in Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said though the clauses in the bill are not legally binding they are a serious violation of the "one China" principle.
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Lawmakers had been expected to reject, for a second time, May's agreement on Tuesday, but the legally binding assurances secured from Brussels meant there was a chance it could pass and that was lifting sterling.
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Prime Minister Theresa May won legally binding Brexit assurances from the European Union on Monday in a last ditch attempt to sway rebellious British lawmakers who have threatened to vote down her divorce deal again.
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Uber instead forces employees into individual arbitration, a maneuver designed to move a lawsuit off its path toward a courtroom and onto the desk of an adjudicator, whose verdict is legally binding and completely confidential.
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ProtonMail maintains a transparency report listing the total number of user data access and retention requests, and breaking out how many requests have been granted, how many were denied and how many are legally binding.
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Wayss said the group would move its work to its Amsterdam office if it is forced to shut down in Bangladesh, as the legally-binding contract signed between its brand members extends up to 2021.
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A senior Conservative lawmaker, Kenneth Clarke, suggested that Parliament could override the referendum — which is not, in the end, legally binding on the government — while a Labour legislator, David Lammy, called for a second referendum.
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The Prime Minister said she will continue to negotiate with EU leaders over the coming days to extract more assurances on her deal -- although they are unlikely to meet the legally binding requirement of MPs.
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As for the others, there is flexibility in how governments choose to structure and fund P-TECHs, though each school must sign a non-legally-binding agreement that it will follow the six core tenets.
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Mr. Son said he intended to double the number of employees at ARM in the next five years, and he said he would make that pledge a legally binding commitment enforceable by Britain's takeover panel.
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You note that the vote was "not legally binding," and Prime Minister David Cameron has said that he himself is unwilling to invoke Article 50, which would start Britain's irrevocable withdrawal from the European Union.
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Proactive public diplomacy can expand on the strategic rationales already provided by the administration in announcing its new approach to Iran, and highlight Iran's legally-binding non-proliferation obligations regardless of the nuclear deal's fate.
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Kerry had said earlier that China's dismissal of the international court ruling as "illegitimate" presented a challenge when the international community, including the United States, sees it as legally binding and a matter of law.
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The resolution to request the removal of Trump's star's was unanimously adopted by the West Hollywood City Council but is not legally binding as the city has no jurisdiction over the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Per Samuelson, one of Assange's Swedish lawyers, said if the U.N. panel judged Assange's time in the embassy to be custody, he should be released immediately, even though the panel's decision is not legally binding.
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"Formally speaking, the joint report is not legally binding," the European Commission's chief spokesman Margaritis Schinas told reporters when asked about suggestions from some of May's ministers that the terms of Friday's accord could change.
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As a result, more than 200 companies around the world signed the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, a legally binding agreement between retailers and factories to make them safer and empower workers.
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"Facebook's failure to protect confidential user information likely violated specific legally binding commitments, but also basic norms and standards," said U.S. Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal, a member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee.
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The agreement is not legally binding, however, and adhering to the principles outlined in the so-called memorandum does not release the providers from having to comply with other state and federal regulations, it says.
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Proponents for same-sex marriage say the vote, which is being challenged in the High Court and whose outcome is not legally binding, exposes gays and lesbians to a bruising campaign for no good reason.
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While one impeachment is not legally binding on future impeachments, if the Trump standard is followed, it will become more difficult -- perhaps near impossible -- to impeach and remove an official based on abuse of power.
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The ruling will lay out an authoritative and legally binding decision on certain critical questions, such as what amount of maritime territory comes with certain features, and what conduct is appropriate around a given feature.
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Lessons From Kyoto Before Reading Watch the video below, of President Barack Obama as he announced the Paris climate agreement in 2015, when 195 countries adopted the first-ever universal, legally binding global climate deal.
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While it remains to be seen if the resolutions are legally binding without board approval, it is possible the board of directors might pass the motions, according to Berland and Breisacher's statement about the decision.
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A judgment from the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, a panel of human rights experts, would not be legally binding, but lawyers said it would be a way of applying pressure on the Spanish state.
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Britain has a legally binding target to cut its emissions by 80 percent on 1990 levels by 2050 and has embarked on electricity market reforms aimed at spurring investment in low-carbon nuclear and renewable power.
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She has been firmly told that, although words may be added to the political declaration about future relations, there is no chance of amending the legally binding withdrawal agreement that fixes the principal terms for Brexit.
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The Softbank CEO also said that he wants to make the pledge to double ARM's U.K. employee headcount over the next five years "legally binding", meaning a court could take legal action if it's not fulfilled.
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Putting a price on carbon dioxide emissions is one of the government's major policies to help meet a legally binding target to cut emissions of harmful greenhouse gases by 80 percent from 1990 levels by 2050.
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If you aren't familiar with the term, it's a maneuver designed to move a lawsuit off its path toward a courtroom and onto the desk of an adjudicator, whose verdict is legally binding and completely confidential.
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Hill, whose remit includes financial stability, said this was not the case and also dismissed doubts that the new settlement was not legally binding or that Britain would not be able to challenge EU rules easily.
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Negotiators say none of the proposals requires an immediate change in EU treaties but the draft will meet British concerns for a legally binding deal by promising to enshrine the text in any future treaty overhaul.
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The US must "commit to negotiate a legally-binding ban treaty without delay to draw the boundaries of future autonomy in weapon systems," Mary Wareham, advocacy director of Human Rights Watch's Arms Division, told the CCW.
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The U.K. leader is looking to renegotiate the so-called Irish "backstop" — a legally-binding insurance policy designed to prevent the return of customs checks on the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
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The Bangladesh Investor Initiative, whose members are shareholders in several retailers, has asked the companies to support a three-year extension of a legally-binding accord to improve building and fire safety across the textile industry.
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Non-contentious provisions, including the preamble, would be tackled first before the touchy issues, including whether the pact should be legally binding and its geographic scope, to prevent the talks from stalling early, another diplomat said.
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Instead, ABC News was sent a photograph of the nondisclosure agreement Chyna signed in 2016, a legally binding document in which she agreed not to disclose anything about anyone on the ever-growing Kardashian family tree.
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If Democrats reclaim the Senate, but can only confirm Clinton's nominees by further eroding the filibuster, Republican voters will extend the presumption of illegitimacy from Clinton to her nominees and then to their legally binding decisions.
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Although he tweeted that he would make a decision next week, his apparent reluctance to embrace the first-ever legally binding global climate deal that was signed by 195 countries clearly annoyed German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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Arbitrations are private, alternative dispute resolutions that are heard by an impartial arbitrator who reviews the evidence in the case and imposes a decision that is legally binding on both sides and enforceable in the courts.
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