How to Use nonbinding in a Sentence

nonbinding

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• Atop the list are the early nonbinding agreements teams make with players as young as 12.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2022
• The town cites a nonbinding fire code standard of 20 feet for fire access roads, adding six feet for the width of a car, for this measurement.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2021
• Trump signed a nonbinding letter of intent for the project in 2015 and discussed it at least three times with Cohen.
  — Michael S. Schmidt, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• Several nonbinding referenda over the last few years have shown again and again that Chicagoans want to elect their boards.
  — Jonathan Messinger, Chicago Reader, 21 Dec. 2017
• The nonbinding vote amounts to an endorsement for approval.
  — Matthew Perrone, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2019
• Cohen sought and received his signature on a nonbinding letter of intent for the project.
  — Rebecca Ballhaus, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2018
• Trump signed a letter of intent on the Moscow deal, which was a nonbinding agreement, but the venture was ultimately scuttled in 2016.
  — Jeremy Herb, CNN, 16 Mar. 2018
• The hope is that even a nonbinding agreement can motivate governments and people to start acting on climate change, and to innovate along the way.
  — Mike Augustyniak, CBS News, 1 June 2017
• On Monday, the council passed a nonbinding resolution 11-1 in favor of the request.
  — USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2020
• In the past, synods have been talkfests by churchmen who made nonbinding proposals to the pope to consider in a future document.
  — Nicole Winfield, Fox News, 18 Sep. 2018
• The accords were a nonbinding resolution to limit carbon emissions across the globe.
  — Tim Pearce, Washington Examiner, 21 Jan. 2020
• Proponents of the nonbinding question say that would allow the village to reduce other forms of taxation.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• In January, the commission voted 3-2 not to put the question of future refugee resettlement before voters in the form of a nonbinding straw poll.
  — USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2020
• Sunrise Christian Academy who is expected to give a nonbinding verbal commitment next month and sign in the spring.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2021
• The team started by engineering the cells to produce a nanobody that, on its nonbinding end, carried molecules that direct proteins to the cell's garbage disposal.
  — Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 10 May 2018
• The vote was symbolic: The nonbinding resolution carries with it no mechanism to make the president stand down.
  — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 12 July 2018
• The $47 million to $50 million expected to be raised by the tax each year would be used to fund new low-income housing and homelessness services under a nonbinding resolution the council passed at the same time as the tax.
  — Benjamin Romano, Anchorage Daily News, 19 May 2018
• But The Washington Post found that other agencies in the state disregarded Cuccinelli’s nonbinding opinion and continued to keep the data for up to two years.
  — Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2018
• But last week 75 percent of Chicago voters agreed the state should repeal its ban on rent control in response to a nonbinding referendum on the primary ballot.
  — Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader, 28 Mar. 2018
• Since then the issue was tangled in the court system — even the Maine Supreme Court issued a nonbinding opinion saying the new law was at least partially unconstitutional.
  — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• The Biden administration is rejoining the Paris Agreement on climate, but at best that accord is modest and nonbinding.
  — John M. Crisp, Star Tribune, 4 Apr. 2021
• The strike drew the ire of mostly Shiite Iraqi lawmakers and prompted parliament to pass a nonbinding resolution to pressure the Iraqi government to oust foreign troops from the country.
  — Robert Burns and Lolita C. Baldor, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2021
• The owners will begin three days of meetings on Tuesday in Orlando, Fla., and must find a way to re-engage a union that rejected the idea of a nonbinding federal mediator last week.
  — New York Times, 7 Feb. 2022
• Investors will decide on the nonbinding measure at the annual meeting scheduled for Nov. 15 in Los Angeles.
  — Anousha Sakoui, Bloomberg.com, 28 Sep. 2017
• But just to throw another roadblock in his way, Mayor Rahm had the aldermen place three nonbinding questions on November's ballot.
  — Ben Joravsky, Chicago Reader, 3 July 2018
• Congress voted in a nonbinding resolution to recognize the killings as genocide in 2019.
  — James Hookway, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2021
• Verbal pledges are nonbinding and the early signing period is in December.
  — Brent Zwerneman, Houston Chronicle, 18 Apr. 2018
• Plus, changing things up in this nonbinding way will likely give you a different view of what’s happening — quite literally, when your plans take you out of the house — which tends to expand comprehension.
  — Carolyn Hax, The Mercury News, 17 Sep. 2019
• Democrats suggested putting the issue to a nonbinding statewide vote in Indiana, which Republicans rejected.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2022
• But Western nations are lobbying other regions in an effort to achieve an overwhelming majority vote on a nonbinding statement to condemn and isolate Russia.
  — William Mauldin, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024