make binding

Unlike private developers, who make binding commitments through the environmental review process, Caltrans made nebulous promises that can’t be easily enforced, he said.

We have to be able to make binding commitments with other nations.

Had Belfast made it to the next stage of the bidding process, the council, as the lead agency in the bid, would have needed to make "binding" financial commitments.

But last month, Bettina Stefanini took it a step further as she announced that an independent panel of experts would evaluate the research and make binding decisions on whether to return items originally owned by Jews and deemed lost due to Nazi persecution.

The council should also expand the authority of the Office of Police Complaints to make binding disciplinary decisions in addition to investigating cases of police misconduct.