Obliged
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But donors all too often feel
obliged
to make their contributions “visible” to their constituencies and stakeholders, rather than prioritizing local perspectives and participation.
But we must not only dare, we are
obliged
to speak.
In 2007, there are some signs that Goldman Sachs feels
obliged
to lean against the wind in order to stabilize markets.
Israel’s failure in recent years to negotiate seriously and responsibly with the Palestinians means that it will now have to consider its diplomatic options against the background of an Arab world in which governments will be
obliged
to listen more closely to their citizens’ views on Palestine.
The Secretary General is entrusted with assisting member states to make sound and well-informed decisions, which he is then
obliged
to execute, but he is also authorized to influence their work and even to propose actions that they should undertake.
In this regard, the EU has often
obliged.
Are you, like Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner, morally
obliged
to tell your story to all you come across?
Indeed, France must be the only country in which a Prime Minister, Lionel Jospin, feels
obliged
to apologize the day after for saying on TV that "the state is not omnipotent."
In the case of public debt, the pacta sunt servanda principle implies that future governments are
obliged
to respect the commitments assumed by their predecessors.
To be sure, compensation committees and boards tend to follow shareholders’ wishes, even if they are not legally
obliged
to do so.
They can be credited to the accounts of IMF member countries, which are
obliged
to accept them in cross-border transactions under the Fund’s Articles of Agreement.
With other policymaking entities sidelined by an unusual degree of domestic and regional political polarization, advanced-country central banks felt
obliged
to act on their greater operational autonomy and relative political independence.
The newly established Italian government levied ever-increasing taxes, sent troops to occupied areas that didn’t speak a word of Italian, and
obliged
young people to spend five years in the army of a country that they didn’t know.
If they do not do the right thing soon, there will be some banking casualties, and European governments will once again be
obliged
to put in public money.
The international system has become so multi-polar that non-European states can now choose to follow their own interests rather than feel
obliged
to side with the East or the West.
While Hamas must be flexible in dealing with legitimate requests by the international community, the international community is
obliged
to provide an effective road map to peace.
This induced banks that were
obliged
to hold riskless assets in order to meet their liquidity requirements to earn a few extra basis points by loading up on the weaker countries’ sovereign debt.
Or they are
obliged
to seek a living in the informal economy, where they risk falling victim to arrest, sexual exploitation, child labor, or other abuses.
Two years later, in Lisbon, NATO adopted its new Strategic Concept, which
obliged
its members to reinforce collective defense as the Alliance’s first core task.
Moreover, in order to reassure the markets, the authorities felt
obliged
to create the €750 billion European Financial Stabilization Fund, with €500 billion from the member states and €250 billion from the IMF.
Since the Argentine crisis, most new bonds have been issued with collective action clauses (CACs), under which bondholders are
obliged
to accept restructuring if a specified share (usually around 70%) agree to it.
They should be
obliged
to repatriate foreign workers, as required in the standard migrant employment contract used by the Philippines.
Institutions that live and die by relative performance felt
obliged
to increase their internet holdings.
So, in order to keep residual losses small, supervisors must be
obliged
to undertake early corrective action when a bank’s capital weakens, which is how the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation operates.
But the key point is that no reckless exposure would be possible in a system where shareholders and creditors knew that they would not be bailed out, and supervisors were not allowed to gamble on resurrection of their supervised entities, but rather were
obliged
to call them to account as soon as they started misbehaving.
Its logical conclusion would have been America’s emergence as the world’s top oil producer, while Saudi Arabia faded into insignificance, not only as an oil exporter but also perhaps as a country that the US felt
obliged
to defend.
He promised to remove the base from Okinawa, and, at the same time, was
obliged
by the countries’ bilateral agreement to build a replacement facility there.
Indeed, as of July 13, Greece’s staunchly anti-austerity government has been
obliged
to impose even tougher austerity and pursue painful structural reforms, under its creditors’ close supervision.
Ballooning provincial deficits, which Argentina's central government could not control--but was
obliged
to finance--pushed the country into default, forcing it to abandon a monetary pact (the currency's one-to-one peg to the dollar) to which the population was attached.
Even as unemployment reached 20%, the Bank of England was
obliged
to maintain high interest rates in order to prevent a massive outflow of gold.
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