6 sentences with “bound”

Britain's and Russia's relations with Belgium and Serbia, respectively, would not have mattered were it not for the alliance obligations that bound the great powers.

A serf is a farmer who is legally bound to the land on which he works - they cannot leave the land to seek better work elsewhere, living in a state very close to slavery.

And finally, by 1955, the Soviets had formalised their own military system with the Warsaw Pact, which bound the Soviet bloc into a network of military alliances comparable to NATO.

The Germanic kingdoms, what was left of the Western empire, the newly emerging empires such as Kievan Rus' and, of course, Byzantium, were all bound up in the concept of Christendom.

Beginning with Genghis Khan himself, all Mongols were bound by a code of conduct and laws called the Yasa (historians debate whether or not the Yasa was a set of codified laws or just a set of traditions).

Thus the political authority of the empire was bound together both by the formal bureaucratic structure of the satrapies (provinces) and by the bonds of loyalty between the King of Kings and his ruling subjects.