noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a moral duty/obligation (=something you must do for moral reasons)
▪ If you have a pet, you have a moral obligation to take care of it.
an obligation to obey (=to have a duty to do something)
▪ Citizens have an obligation to obey the law.
contractual obligation
▪ Tutors have a contractual obligation to research and publish.
discharge your duties/responsibilities/obligations etc
▪ The trustees failed to discharge their duties properly.
fulfil a requirement/condition/obligation etc
▪ Britain was accused of failing to fulfil its obligations under the EU Treaty.
▪ Much of the electrical equipment failed to fulfill safety requirements.
shirk your responsibilities/duties/obligations
▪ parents who shirk their responsibilities towards their children
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
certain
▪ Gregory claimed that Tours was free not only from taxation, but also from certain military obligations.
▪ The law of reciprocity implies certain positive obligations in virtue of its very form.
▪ But I feel a certain obligation to make amends.
▪ You don't seem to realize that you have certain obligations to me, a certain loyalty owing to me.
▪ First it denies it the right to impose certain obligations, denies that some laws if enacted will be binding.
▪ A contract gives both an employee and an employer certain rights and obligations.
contractual
▪ The obligations of the professional librarian Members must fulfil to the best of their ability the contractual obligations owed to their employer.
▪ All across the country I found promoters who were not willing to meet their contractual obligations.
▪ A contractual obligation, such as an exchange rule gives rise on the face of it to strict liability.
▪ Can an employee handbook serve as a basis for contractual obligation?
▪ Similarly, a requirement that the expert observe the rules of natural justice could be made a contractual obligation.
▪ At that point, stars and studios fulfill their initial contractual obligation and are free to negotiate with other parties.
▪ But Virgin executives are privately convinced that meeting this contractual obligation will be impossible because so many major issues remain unresolved.
▪ In Washington, for example, a teacher was discharged from his contractual obligation because of his deteriorating eyesight.
financial
▪ Such personal guarantees become effective if and when the company itself can not meet its financial obligations.
▪ But federal workers and private contractors not being paid are frightened about failing to meet mortgage and other financial obligations.
▪ The full financial obligations of an assisted party will, inevitably, depend upon the outcome of the case.
▪ Simpson will not be able to discharge his financial obligations to the victims' families by claiming bankruptcy.
▪ It's not that Novell has any moral or financial obligation to be the keeper of the Unix flame.
▪ Off-balance sheet financing is a term used to describe techniques designed to obscure a company's true financial obligations.
general
▪ In order to achieve these objectives, the Convention contains several general obligations.
▪ Virginia -- $ 119. 4 million of Series 1996 general obligation refunding bonds, via competitive bid.
▪ But there is no such general obligation for critical indulgence.
▪ A general obligation bond is repaid through property taxes.
▪ The point of a general damnatio was to impose on the heir a general obligation to pay the legacies left.
▪ Items one through seven on the May 20 ballot are general obligation bonds.
▪ Extraordinary revenues derived from the general obligation of the King's subjects to aid him in times of emergency.
▪ Chicago -- $ 308 million of general obligation refunding bonds, via a Lehman Brothers group.
international
▪ We will meet our international obligations to reduce harmful chimney emissions.
▪ They will, in conformity with domestic law and international obligations, continue to take effective measures to this end. 31.
▪ Enlargement to the East will take place in a restrictive framework of international rules and obligations.
▪ The requirements for State responsibility for an international wrongful act are breach of an international obligation which is attributable to the State.
legal
▪ Once again the problem is that it is not evident that the testator intended a legal obligation to be created.
▪ The registry is largely symbolic and confers none of the legal rights and obligations of marriage.
▪ The council had no legal obligation to buy back the property and previous repurchases were virtually unheard of.
▪ Whether there is a legal obligation is a question for the judge: Mainwaring.
▪ The children themselves were not present at the Hearing, as they had a legal obligation to be.
▪ Local authorities need comprehensive and coherent policies to meet both these demands and their minimum legal obligations.
▪ An objection to this argument is that a legal obligation is not a necessary condition for a liability.
▪ As soon as possible afterwards, the existing legal obligations on landlords in regard to repair and maintenance should be put into full force again.
moral
▪ After all, you're under no moral obligation to them.
▪ University officials have displayed no sense of moral obligation toward a female student cast aside in the rush to pander to Phillips.
▪ Although there was no legal compulsion, the moral obligation to pay was strong.
▪ But what would transform it from an externally enforced to a moral obligation?
▪ But it is an argument for the quite different model of moral obligation which I have suggested in this section.
▪ From Raymond Williams I learnt the political and moral consequences and obligations of being educated away from the life you were born into.
▪ It's not that Novell has any moral or financial obligation to be the keeper of the Unix flame.
▪ Not every agreement is such, even though it may constitute a moral obligation.
professional
▪ Essentially this is a personal, professional obligation, inherent in membership of the Institute, rather than a closely policed one.
▪ Parducci considered the story a good literary piece and believed she had a professional obligation to teach it.
▪ On the other hand, every teacher has a professional obligation to understand the key conversations going on in the research community.
public
▪ Critics fear money will oust quality Georgina Henry reports on doubts over programme standards, public service obligations and controls on ownership.
▪ Broadcasters have been living up to public service obligations since 1934.
▪ If the public service obligation grant is substantially reduced, will not there be an inevitable increase in dissatisfaction with customer service?
social
▪ Gandhi interprets his progression to the third stage of life as an extension of his social obligations.
▪ Sharing information and advancing the work are the only real social obligations.
▪ But the letter, a social obligation too promptly performed, had lacked conviction.
▪ A man had a responsibility to meet his social obligations on time.
▪ That should suffice for her social obligations, she felt.
▪ But there was no escaping the social obligation.
▪ Biology seems to be the foundation of social obligation most obviously in the case of parents and children.
▪ There is no social obligation to obey the law.
statutory
▪ He said that the police had a statutory obligation for public safety.
▪ Albert is under a statutory obligation to repair the structure.
▪ It imposes statutory obligations on employers to set down and implement policy to safeguard the health and safety of their employees.
▪ Line managers are responsible for health and safety and have a duty to implement statutory obligations and group and local policies.
▪ In many of the cases arising out of homelessness, local authorities have sought to interpret their statutory obligations narrowly.
▪ The local authority increase in manpower, particularly ancillary and health workers, could largely be explained by such statutory obligations.
▪ There was, however, no statutory obligation upon the Council to produce one.
■ NOUN
treaty
▪ One analysis is that a party to the Protocol has agreed to accept some treaty obligations.
▪ Since these include the pacta tertiis rule, a precondition of Statehood can not be the acceptance of third party treaty obligations.
■ VERB
accept
▪ One analysis is that a party to the Protocol has agreed to accept some treaty obligations.
▪ If we do believe in what we say, then we should accept the obligations this entails.
▪ The corollary is that they have accepted a range of obligations to provide support for non-household kin.
▪ The United States can not accept such an obligation.
▪ But no Government could accept an obligation to use taxpayers' money to make good all losses resulting from fraud.
▪ The Administration accepted the obligation with respect to pregnant women.
▪ Article 35 requires a third party to accept an obligation in writing.
▪ He further accepts that the obligations of the original lessee and an assignee are not joint.
comply
▪ But the judge was prepared to award a declaration that the government had not complied with their obligation to consult.
create
▪ Problems of political obligation can only be overcome by participatory political associations which would allow citizens to create their own political obligations.
▪ The governor, a political being, still appoints judges and creates political obligations thereby.
▪ Goods/services are supplied by the seller to the buyer, thus creating an obligation to pay a sum of money.
▪ Lever was accustomed to the use of gifts in business to create obligations.
▪ Much of medicine is uncertain, and the admission of that uncertainty creates the obligation to research the matter further.
▪ Such a request fell far short of creating a civil-law obligation to do so.
▪ Article 34 restates the basic rule: a treaty creates neither obligations nor rights for a third State without its consent.
define
▪ Therefore this section can not catch clauses which define the obligations to be performed under the contract in a restrictive way.
discharge
▪ The need for those new lines to discharge that obligation will be considered by the inquiry.
▪ In Washington, for example, a teacher was discharged from his contractual obligation because of his deteriorating eyesight.
▪ Simpson will not be able to discharge his financial obligations to the victims' families by claiming bankruptcy.
feel
▪ The recipient feels no obligation, or sense of charity, in a market exchange.
▪ The national government felt no legal obligation to protect antislavery activists and, in truth, reacted indifferently to attacks upon them.
▪ The owner of a large concern may well feel an obligation to find a position in his firm for a hard-up cousin.
▪ While the media is filled with stories about Viagra, Williams stresses that no one should feel an obligation to use it.
▪ She says she didn't feel under any obligation to ask his permission.
▪ He feels an obligation to make something of it.
▪ It was degrading even to contemplate that she would feel an obligation towards him.
▪ It provides a feeling of ownership and obligation that was missing before.
fulfil
▪ It must, therefore, ensure that it has the means within its membership to fulfil this inescapable obligation.
▪ It is Ego which drives us to be dutiful and fulfil false obligations.
▪ More importantly, will the employer adequately fulfil his obligation to complete the educational process by producing sound technicians and businessmen?
▪ It reported in mid-1861, but suggested only that the peasantry of the western provinces fulfil their obligations in cash rather than labour.
▪ The question mark at the end requires a response, helping the offended party to fulfil their scriptural obligation to forgive.
▪ But even if a school fulfils its legal obligations there will be some parents who will remain dissatisfied.
fulfill
▪ At that point, stars and studios fulfill their initial contractual obligation and are free to negotiate with other parties.
▪ I told myself that I resented having to fulfill my obligations in this way.
▪ He also said broadcasters unwilling to provide educational programming could fulfill the obligation instead by supporting public broadcasting networks.
impose
▪ When the law imposes obligations it does so by seeking to balance conflicting claims.
▪ Neither imposes an obligation to worry about the welfare of the other.
▪ Its purpose is to impose an obligation upon Norwich to secure that Winchester complies with the Rules.
▪ Although the Benedictine rule imposed specific obligations upon each individual, it was rarely severe to the point of austerity.
▪ The implied term imposing an obligation on the employee after the termination of his employment was more restricted.
▪ Note that the court can only impose an obligation on a responsible person with that person's consent.
▪ It imposes statutory obligations on employers to set down and implement policy to safeguard the health and safety of their employees.
▪ These laws impose obligations on citizens, and obedience to these obligations is enforced by the courts.
maintain
▪ The most often invoked argument to that effect relies on an obligation to support and maintain just institutions.
▪ This obligation to maintain visiting embassies was a mutual one, however.
▪ Throughout the period policy makers and social investigators were anxious that husbands should fulfil their obligation to maintain dependent wives and children.
meet
▪ Such personal guarantees become effective if and when the company itself can not meet its financial obligations.
▪ To sustain the boomers while meeting its other obligations, the government will have to borrow vast amounts of money.
▪ We will meet our international obligations to reduce harmful chimney emissions.
▪ A man had a responsibility to meet his social obligations on time.
▪ A company showing a profit in the accounts may suddenly be unable to meet its current obligations.
▪ N., meet our obligations and continue to spur real progress.
▪ Congress recently acted to deny trade preferences to countries that fail to meet their legal obligations to end such abusive child labor.
▪ Short-term liquidity refers to the ability of the firm to meet its current obligations as they fall due.
obey
▪ Citizens have an obligation to obey law by virtue of the fact that it is made in accordance with established procedures.
▪ There is no social obligation to obey the law.
▪ The basic limitation on the obligation to obey the state arose from the fundamental purpose of the state.
▪ It has, in fact, been argued that he has greater obligation to obey because of his participation.
▪ But an obligation to obey the law as it is understood in political writings today is a mere primafacie obligation.
▪ Is there a primafacie obligation to obey the law which transcends the limits of the state's authority?
▪ It may entail an obligation to obey certain of the more politically sensitive laws.
▪ I will postpone consideration of the obligation to obey the law until the last section of this chapter.
owe
▪ Fiduciaries would also owe similar obligations.
pay
▪ Although there was no legal compulsion, the moral obligation to pay was strong.
▪ So, for example, the buyer is under no obligation to pay.
▪ The point of a general damnatio was to impose on the heir a general obligation to pay the legacies left.
▪ But a man is under a moral and legal obligation to pay his just debts.
▪ Goods/services are supplied by the seller to the buyer, thus creating an obligation to pay a sum of money.
▪ In particular the customer can restore the goods to the shelf and will be under no obligation to pay for them.
▪ For this purpose, expenditure is treated as incurred when the obligation to pay for the asset becomes unconditional.
▪ However, the obligation to pay interest is an obligation to transfer economic benefits and hence the instrument is a liability.
perform
▪ In return the purchaser will undertake to perform the vendor's obligations under such contract.
▪ Mr Danskin and Mr Smith entered with the air of men performing a mildly disagreeable obligation.
protect
▪ Article 2 imposes on the state an obligation to protect the right to life.
▪ The national government felt no legal obligation to protect antislavery activists and, in truth, reacted indifferently to attacks upon them.
▪ At the very least, they have an obligation to protect their populations from practices that may adversely affect their health.
▪ Under the interests theory, obligations arise in order to protect economic liberty, not curtail it.
provide
▪ Where the wife was the erring partner, the husband could seek freedom from the obligation to provide such support.
▪ Yet, ratings agencies count the obligation as equity, providing an advantage over traditional debt.
▪ The corollary is that they have accepted a range of obligations to provide support for non-household kin.
▪ The obligation to provide such a service should rest, it was said, with the local authority.
▪ The primary obligation was plainly to provide personal treatment, though that obligation was subject to limited qualifications.
▪ Testing complicates the issue of fulfilment of the employers' obligations to provide jobs to successful Compact graduates.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Alvin Sharpes stiffened, torn by conflicting obligations.
▪ But without the obligation to show current affairs in peak time, it may be pushed into a less attractive slot.
▪ Fathers mildly lit on Friday nights, at ease with these immeasurable obligations.
▪ Poor rates mounted, and many magistrates and overseers continued their moral obligations but in a spirit of growing hopelessness.
▪ There is no obligation on the suspect to answer questions.
▪ This section lists long-term debt owed to banks or other creditors and any obligations under capital leases.
▪ We will meet our international obligations to reduce harmful chimney emissions.