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By announcing this meeting with such feel-good publicity, they are placing their successors in quite a bind.

On Escobar's order, Popeye took Mendoza hostage in the warden's house while Escobar tried to figure his way out of the bind.

Its molecules bind to messenger RNA, allowing certain genes to be “turned off.”

This has put Ukrainian gay activists and their allies in a bind.

Finally, Mandela understood the ties that bind the human spirit.

They have a living faith in the potency of the Horse-Guards, and in the maxim that "Safe bind is sure find."

He had, however, torn the leg of one of his stockings: so he asked Amy to bind up his wounds.

Oaths taken in courts of judicature, civil or religious, and the marriage oath, bind the parties in like manner.

In one word, to the whole worship of God the soul that clings to His Covenant will cordially bind itself in his dread presence.

There is none to judge thy judgment to bind it up: thou hast no healing medicines.