The phrase "a new obligation" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a responsibility or duty that has recently been introduced or assigned.
Example: "With the new project coming in, we have a new obligation to meet the client's expectations."
Alternatives: "a fresh responsibility" or "a recent duty".
"Soaring spending has presented the medical community with a new obligation.
Every walk becomes a new obligation to measure your progress along the fashion curve.
They will, for example, have a new obligation to meet in what the NYSE calls "executive session"—an odd phrase, given that executives will not be present.
A series of amendments imposed mandatory interconnection, a new obligation for common carriers that would prove important in future.Telegraph lines presented a similar economic challenge high start-up capital and low marginal operating costs.
The bill calls for miles of fences, thousands of new border guards, a secure identity card for immigrants and a new obligation for employers to verify that anyone they hire is legally entitled to work.
Willful violation of a new obligation to certify the accuracy of their accounts will carry a sentence of 20 years, for instance, rather than ten years in the Senate bill.
In 2010 and 2012, we asked the question: 'Clinical leadership is described as "…a new obligation to step up, work with other leaders, both clinical and managerial, and change the system where it would benefit patients".
In precisely the same spirit, the tax credit system will be partly replaced by a very straightforward new obligation upon employers to pay their staff decently.
The proposed legislation would not impose any new obligations on UK business.
For millennials and baby boomers, struggling to reconcile jobs from an analogue age with the new obligation to be constantly online, we come a cropper far too often.
Nobody knows how to reconcile them not only with higher spending on education but also with a new constitutional obligation to cut the federal government's budget deficit almost to zero by 2016.
