0 not legally necessary to obey or follow: --
The committee's vote is non-binding.
a non-binding resolution/referendum/recommendation
1 a non-binding agreement, decision, etc. has no legal power: --
They have won a non-binding vote of the company's shareholders.
If these constraints are truly non-binding, the agent must have the same marginal benefits from investment and effort as does the principal, and therefore make the same choices.
After 15 min of supine rest in a quiet, dimly lit room, patients were tilted to a 70° head-up position using a mechanical tilt-table with a footboard and non-binding restraints.
Given the non-binding character of the institution's resolutions and propositions, the media can provide the ombudsman with the means to ensure that it is not ignored.
At the same time, legally non-binding instruments are neither neutral nor static.
In recent years, part and parcel of its strategy has been the increasing use of legally non-binding instruments such as notices or guidelines.
As a result, non-binding standards, benchmarks and even studies and reports may help to tilt the balance in domestic policy debates.
Libraries of peptides were screened for binding to vancomycin using diffusion-edited spectroscopy to differentiate between binding and non-binding peptides.
Furthermore, the perceived softness or non-binding nature of the instrument sometimes allows the parties to move into more detailed regulation in a speedier fashion.
