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At the same time, since Vatican II – and in tandem with the decline of close-knit ethnic enclaves – churchgoers no longer feel obliged to hew to the letter of canon law.
In 1961, the US responded by creating the London Gold Pool, which obliged other countries to reimburse the US for half of its gold losses.
Attempts to enforce the rule have met unexpected resistance from teachers, who are obliged to rotate tasting duty: they object that they are at school to teach students, not to taste food.
Secondly, I argued that while there might be occasions when, regardless of international law, human rights abuses are so severe that one is morally obliged to act, Kosovo was not such a case.
If these claims were true, the EU would be justified – if not obliged – to close its borders.
The answer depends, in part, on the collectivity to which he or she feels morally obliged.
Of course, if, say, by 2008 the disappearing national debt really did appear to pose an imminent danger, Congress would have happily obliged in cutting taxes or increasing expenditures.
The reader is obliged to conclude that regulators might not have been so dim after all.
With the European Union extending its frontiers to embrace many ex-communist states, the West became again, if briefly, the embodiment of universal reason, obliged and equipped to spread its values to the still-benighted parts of the world.
The Dublin Regulation, according to which the first EU country that a migrant reaches is obliged to register and process the migrant’s application, has long been disregarded.
Most people engaged in these activities would respond with answers like, “because I like to” or, “because it fulfills me,” if not, “I feel obliged not to waste my talent.”
Teachers must put Crimea on the map of Russia, and employees of state-run companies are obliged to participate in pro-government rallies.
In the past, adult children were obliged to care for old and sick parents.
But the international community is not obliged to finance official corruption.
To join the inspectors, weapons experts are obliged to resign from their national postings, but few are ready to give up their careers to work in the UN bureaucracy.
On December 8, Iraq is obliged to declare formally its full weapons program.
Now, with the adoption of the SDGs, governments everywhere are obliged to take responsibility for ending poverty and hunger, as well as for creating the conditions for ensuring that both are permanently overcome.
At the apex of the pyramid, the G-7 was obliged to give way to the broader G-20, bringing countries like China and India into the decision-making nexus as full partners.
Under the current arrangements for the BoE, if inflation moves more than one percentage point away from its target (in either direction), the bank’s governor is obliged to write an open letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer explaining the deviation and providing a plan to eliminate it, including a projected timeline.
Yet the Palestinian Authority demanded their release, Israel’s government obliged, and the US supported the transaction.
The moral point is that we are obliged to do our best to avoid or minimize civilian casualties in warfare, even if we know that we cannot avoid them completely.
The proponents do not specify whether the Fed would be obliged to provide gold at this price to all comers, as before 1933, or only to foreign governments, as between 1945 and 1971.
Nigeria, which is giving Taylor sanctuary, is obliged to turn him over to the Special Court for Sierra Leone, created by the United Nations in 2003 to prosecute those responsible for the bloodletting in West Africa’s in the 1990’s.
But if we are to be true to the concept of parliamentary democracy, rather than government by one-off plebiscite, we would also feel obliged to point out that it isn’t a question of just “getting on with it.”
The ECB operates under asymmetric guidelines: it is constitutionally obliged to be concerned only with maintaining price stability, not full employment;Germany still lives with the memory of the Weimar Republic’s runaway inflation, which served as a prelude to the Nazi regime.
The American Bankers Association, worried about the fees that banks would be obliged to pay, vehemently opposed deposit insurance.
Exceptional times demand exceptional measures – and I believe that the ECB will feel obliged to act if the eurozone is pushed to the brink.
Policymakers are not obliged to unwind non-standard measures before considering interest-rate increases, or to push interest rates to the zero lower bound before considering unconventional measures.
Eventually, she will be obliged to abandon her studied ambiguity, and she will probably pay a price for doing so.
Basically, it all boiled down to a grand bargain: while developing countries would obviously have primary responsibility for achieving the MDGs, developed countries would be obliged to finance and support their efforts for development.
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