• She was bound from head to foot, her mouth gagged.
• It was rather weak at first, but grew so rapidly that, had he been able to do anything other then feel pain, he might have ripped himself free from the restraints that bound him.
• Two medical personnel had just shot her mother with a tranquilizer dart and had bound her with restraining cloth.

• Viviane's deep red hair was bound up into a bun, although some of her hair was free anyway and very curly.
• To prevent fluid buildup, she used bandages to bind her legs tightly, from toe to thigh, for 10 hours a day.
• Some bundles of cardboard are bound in a way that airlines can use them as ballast, an extra weight required when the plane doesn't have enough cargo or passengers.

• A passing taxi driver saw him, stopped to bind his wounds with bandages from his first aid kit, thus saving his life, and called an ambulance.
• He dealt with that first, smearing salve over the bandage with which he bound the wound, and then attended to the many bruises.
• Soon, she had cleaned the wounds, and bound them with bandages.

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• Also, they were bound with several bands of intricately carved bronze.
• The metal doors were bound with lock and chain but they were also partially unhinged from the wall.
• The handle and hilt were bound with thick black material.

• In its broadest sense this term denotes painting done in pigments bound with a medium (generally gum arabic) which is soluble in water.
• PsbS provides an essential function in plant photoprotection, with only minimal pigment binding.

• Processivity is defined as the number of deoxyribonucleotides incorporated each time a DNA polymerase binds its template-primer.
• ABL is a member of a group of proteins, which bind the Thomsen-Friedenreich antigen selectively and with high affinity.
• The restriction enzyme bound on DNA at the first site binds its second site to a remote DNA sequence and then dissociates from the first one.

• Plasminogen binds to both fibrinogen and fibrin, thereby being incorporated into a clot as it is formed.
• An extreme example is the fact that the enzyme can bind to membrane carbohydrates and protein receptors.
• Within cells both retinol and retinoic acid bind to specific receptor proteins.

• Not merely would it hit the flow of new projects, it would undermine the tax planning of existing American operations in Ireland, loosening the ties that bind them to what is, in economic terms at least, the 51st state of the union.
• What if the practical experience of the Scottish parliament does quite the reverse: strengthens the ties that bind Scotland to the Union?
• The ties that bind Martin O'Neill to Celtic may have been, in reality, loosened by the Irishman's decision to sign only a 12-month rolling contract with the club last month.

• They also worked for others as apprentices, or as bound labor paying off a debt, or because they were put out to work by county officials as paupers or orphans.
• This relationship explains why domestic slaves, even after they had been manumitted, invariably remained with their master at whose death they often bound themselves to his heir or sought the protection of another master.
• Though the people were spared a life of slavery, many of them ultimately came to the Americas as indentured servants, bound by contract to a specific term of unfree labor.

• Collusion is prohibited by Article 81 of the EC Treaty, which means (among other things) that firms cannot sign legally enforceable contracts to bind themselves to collusive understandings.
• By signing the Taillories declaration, we have bound ourselves to making Environmental Programming a priority.
• This is because in the non-statutory scheme the financial institution has bound itself in contract to accept the ombudsman's decision as final.

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• But Samantha Leigh, prosecuting, said trouble started in 1998 when Henson received a bind over from magistrates for a common assault on Mrs Williams.
• It can be inferred from the decision which he made to seek a bind over at that time that he had concluded, at that point at least, that there was still a risk of a continued breach of the peace.
• Where the State meets its burden of proof at the preliminary examination on the charged crime, the court lacks authority to dismiss the charged crime and bind defendant over to stand trial on a lesser degree of the charged crime, all as more fully set forth in the opinion.

• The parties will be bound by and comply with any decision of the expert.
• But what they have in common is the desire to express themselves musically in new ways, not being bound by what they have done in the past or what the audience may expect of them.
• A specification ought to be an epitome of the ideal because it should describe what is required without being bound by what currently exists.

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• Two months into his second term, he is in one of the toughest political binds of his presidency.
• Russia is in a political bind of its own creation, specifically over the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty.
• With accountability so popular, however, the unions and their allies found themselves in a political bind.

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