be bounded by something

Was he really bound to the earth by his own will?

But the Administration does not view itself as bound by the rest of the 1973 law.

The group sat quite still as if bound by some secret.

There is also the idea that culture bound by environment.

Bound together by that day on the train when he could have left but hadn't.

He refused to see people as bound by forces beyond their control.

Two people dedicated to a common cause, bound by love.

The group does not bound itself by some narrow style of music.

He did not feel bound by a promise to evil.

I took my seat subject to the former conditions and will continue to regard myself as bound by them.