Federal and state income tax codes specify a minimum tax obligation on the basis of income.
To be sure, this is about the minimum obligation, which applies to all countries, regardless of their income levels: the general legal obligation to realize the right to health progressively extends beyond essential medicines to a general duty to ensure access to all medicines that may improve people's health.
Government policy on legal aid now amounts essentially to one aim: the delivery of the lowest level of service that will comply with our minimum obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights at the least possible cost.
The report says: "These obligations do not serve as milestones to ensure that the pace of development is being kept up because it would take almost 200 years to develop the Greenwich peninsula, if the developers met their minimum obligations but did no more".
You quote Senator Richard C. Shelby, Republican of Alabama, as saying, "Ford and Firestone had at a minimum a moral obligation to make sure that the products they sell to the American public and other people in other countries are safe".
"Ford and Firestone had at a minimum a moral obligation to make sure that the products they sell to the American public and other people in other countries are safe," said Senator Richard C. Shelby, Republican of Alabama.
Every negotiation or conversation needs a minimum set of obligations to fulfill.
One can argue about how extensive this obligation ought to be, but at a minimum it includes an obligation not to engage in high-level corruption that violates the law.
If it is going to go into this level of accusation, at a minimum there is an obligation of having the other side's viewpoint".
If colleges aren't willing to crack down on heavy drinkers effectively, at a minimum they have an obligation to support students who are admirably bucking the binge trend.
