Failing that amount, the results possess merely advisory character.

The Far Eastern Advisory Commission was established in October, but Great Britain had reservations regarding its advisory character, and the Soviet Union requested a decision regarding control machinery in Tokyo before joining the work of the Commission."

The idea of using a Constitutional Commission and a referendum to endow any new constitution with a special prestige does not alter the fact that within our constitution referenda are of an advisory character only and have not served to limit Parliament's ultimate discretion.

In November 1915 an Anglo-French "Standing Committee of an advisory character" (prime ministers and such other politicians and generals as were required, with Hankey and a French counterpart taking minutes) was set up, but the French Prime Minister Briand rejected Asquith's proposal of a permanent secretariat.