Obliged
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The stores of transitory wealth that were created seemed real enough to everyone at the time – real enough to spend, and real enough to hurt those who were
obliged
to pay them back.
Inept government and economic decline in the 1980’s and 1990’s
obliged
Nigeria’s leaders to focus on problems closer to home, like the civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Countries are not
obliged
to sign it, and they may withdraw from it, with no penalty, if they change their mind.
It is the failure of the UK government to amend the statute that dictates the complex structure of knockouts that the BoE’s ingenious staff has been
obliged
to devise.
But all serious Brexiteers, plus the vast majority of Conservative MPs and the Labour leadership, who feel
obliged
to follow the “instructions” of the 2016 referendum obviously will not support this option.
Of course, debt-holders would be
obliged
to accept a uniform discount (or “haircut”) on what they are owed.
It’s the kind of question that tends to bring out the bureaucrat in even the most direct of communicators, as one feels
obliged
to explain the complexity of the challenges confronting humanity: how no imperative can be singled out over other goals; how the struggle for peace, the fight against poverty, and the battle to eradicate disease must all be waged side by side; and so on – mind-numbingly.
One camp, led by Germany and the Netherlands, believes that national governments are obliged, first and foremost, to deliver on agreed reforms, while respecting commonly agreed rules.
Because every EU member state is
obliged
to contribute about 1% of its GNI to the Union’s budget, the UK’s data revision had to lead to a back payment of billions of euros.
At that point, the international community would be
obliged
to begin acting against any party that was denying Palestine the right to behave as a fully functional and sovereign state.
Developed countries are thus morally
obliged
to pay partial compensation to poor and vulnerable countries and regions to cover part of the cost of the investments needed to adapt to climate change.
Europe must break the vicious circle linking distressed sovereign borrowers with banks that are obliged, or at least encouraged, to buy their bonds, which in turn provide the funding for bank rescues.
Granted, no one is
obliged
to submit himself to the slings and arrows of electoral politics.
This is usually a gas-station owner who is flush with cash at the end of each day and who, for security reasons and in order to pay for his fuel supplies, is
obliged
to deposit his cash daily at his bank, turning valuable FEs into less valuable BEs.
In 1809, one of Durrani’s descendants was
obliged
to cede the Kohinoor in tribute to the powerful Sikh Maharaja of Punjab, Ranjit Singh.
The official version of these events was that the EU was
obliged
to intervene to force a wayward population back to the path of fiscal rectitude and structural reform.
The member state would then be legally
obliged
to make deposits into that account to cover the ECB bonds’ coupons and principal.
Europe, however, is not
obliged
to choose between catastrophe and mutualization of debt.
Rather, the economy has become so vulnerable to declines in asset prices that the Fed is
obliged
to intervene to prevent them from inflicting broad damage.
There is a second obstruction as well: the US Congress refuses to face up realistically to the climate challenge, because China, as a developing country, is not
obliged
to accept compulsory carbon limits.
But embracing cosmopolitanism also means that once a society admits new members, those members are
obliged
to open themselves to their new society.
Islam, for example, has historically permitted certain forms of polygamy, but no liberal society is
obliged
to extend religious freedom in ways that undermine its commitment to gender equality.
Everyone could claim victory, and no one was
obliged
to acknowledge defeat.
Government scholarship recipients are
obliged
to serve in the public sector for a minimum of two years for every one year of study.
As for the Netherlands, companies were
obliged
to report the ethnic composition of their workforces until the law was repealed in 2003.
They are entitled to grants, and should not be
obliged
to repay the monies they receive.
As China continued to pursue an anti-Japanese propaganda campaign throughout 2013, Park felt
obliged
to make some effort to revive ties with Japan by sending a private envoy to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to seek talks on reconciling their disputes.
You are
obliged
to take care of your family, your friends, or even your fellow countrymen.
He claimed that $735 million worth of the new currency had already been sold, though observers are skeptical, unless state entities have been
obliged
to buy them.
But if the basic premise of these trials is to uphold human rights, then we are
obliged
to extend that same principle to Duch.
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