How to Use nonbinding in a Sentence

nonbinding

adjective
  • 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
  • In 1994, the Catron county commission voted unanimously to pass a nonbinding resolution stating that every household should possess a firearm and ammunition for the purpose of home defense.
    Brandon Kapelow, Time, 13 Oct. 2022

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