6 sentences with “binding”

The composer Schoenberg's main innovations consisted of experiments with atonality - music without a central, binding key - and a newly invented twelve-tone scale of his own creation.

Although the function of this neurotransmitter is not yet intimately known, it appears to act by binding to a neuron, activating it, and then detaching from it, causing a feeling of pleasure.

While republicanism offered an alternative to monarchy, it was also an alternative to democracy, a system of government characterised by majority rule, in which the majority of citizens have the power to make decisions binding on the whole.

The binding theme of these three early socialist thinkers was not only radical proposals for the reorganisation of labour, but the idea that economic competition was a moral problem, that competition itself is by no means natural and implies instead a social disorder.

Norms, rules and laws organise social life and establish a social bond that unites people. The word law comes precisely from the concept of binding. It can be said that we are "subject" to institutions, which discipline and regulate our behaviour; but, at the same time, we have the capacity to preserve or transform them.

While the Federalist statesmen, like the architects of the federal Constitution of 1787, feared pure democracy, Jefferson was much more optimistic that the ordinary American peasant could be trusted to make good decisions. He believed in majority rule, that is, that the majority of the peasantry should have the power to make decisions binding on the whole.