Synonym: duty, indebtedness, responsibility. Similar words: investigation, allegation, publication, nation, donation, zonation, formation, equation. Meaning: [‚ɑblɪ'geɪʃn /‚ɒb-] n. 1. the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force 2. the state of being obligated to do or pay something 3. a personal relation in which one is indebted for a service or favor 4. a legal agreement specifying a payment or action and the penalty for failure to comply.
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91. This then is not a true obligation for performance, because once the promise becomes actionable performance is no longer possible.
92. But the judge was prepared to award a declaration that the government had not complied with their obligation to consult.
93. In either case, however, the business has the use of the asset and incurs a monthly payment obligation.
94. I interpret as the inevitable result of conflict between art and female obligation in upper-class, old-family Boston.
95. In Washington, for example, a teacher was discharged from his contractual obligation because of his deteriorating eyesight.
96. Obviously, the more detailed it is, the more stringent is the seller's obligation to supply goods corresponding with it.
97. What this prohibition therefore fails to address or account for, is the obligation to promote the good of other animals.
98. If a capital instrument contains an obligation to transfer economic benefits the entire instrument should be accounted for as a liability.
99. The constitution, when thus adopted, was of complete obligation, and bound the state sovereignties.
100. The parties are under no contractual obligation to allow each other to make representations to the auditor before he issues his certificate.
101. Pateman also believes political obligation can not be given expression in the liberal democratic institutions.
102. Business negotiations Clearly there may be some negotiations where it would be unwise to assume that an obligation of confidence will arise.
103. The facility of incurring the first obligation became a temptation to a second.
104. The national government felt no legal obligation to protect antislavery activists and, in truth, reacted indifferently to attacks upon them.
105. In that case there is no obligation on the seller to deliver the goods and none on the buyer to pay.
106. Similarly, a requirement that the expert observe the rules of natural justice could be made a contractual obligation.
107. Note that the court can only impose an obligation on a responsible person with that person's consent.
108. Citizens have an obligation to obey law by virtue of the fact that it is made in accordance with established procedures.
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109. It must, therefore, ensure that it has the means within its membership to fulfil this inescapable obligation.
110. Neither imposes an obligation to worry about the welfare of the other.
111. Firstly, fundholding practices may find their obligation to buy community care services a disincentive from pressing for early discharge.
112. In contrast, where the firm is acting as an adviser its disclosure obligation will be more onerous.
113. For reasons to be examined below this belief commonly expresses itself in a belief in a defeasible obligation to obey the law.
114. The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation. Bill Clinton
115. Of course for the obligation of confidence to lapse the information published must be the same as the confidential information.
116. It is under no obligation to extradite the two suspects.
117. Under counter-trade a sale of good is contractually linked to an obligation to purchase goods or resultant output from the same country.
118. Ohio -- $ 120 million of general obligation bonds, via a Banc One Capital Corp. group.
119. If you can't see whether an obligation has been met, you can't readily grant a privilege.
120. Is that ambition functioning at a high level or is it just a sense of obligation or is it idealism?
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